Salute to her duty....!

She is a teacher.....but strength in her is very inspiring to many women.

.... When she was transferred to a school 40 km away from her home, the two month pregnant woman asked her to take a break from her job and even protested but she felt that I am a teacher and I have to go. When she started going to school against the opposition of her family because she used to travel 40 kilometers by bus. Every day she had to face new problems. There was no place to…

Ashadhi is the Yatra of my village. Every year Ashadhi Ekadashi is celebrated in Nandwal this year too. But, this year Ashadhi Yatra was conducted with enthusiasm and joy. in this yatra a large number of people from other villages come to the Nandwal. 

A lot of toy shops and food stalls in the yatra so there is a lot of waste. The Gram…

Under Avani organization, work is going on in the village Nandwal under the project of gender equality through SALT. After some time it was decided to have a knowledge fair program.

At that time, Rituu came to Nandwal in April 2023 while doing SALT training with the children. As they were  hesitating to speak,  she asked the children if they would like to share about their village through drama. At first the children were very shy…

SALT process is being implemented in Nandwal village, Maharashtra, India under the project Gender Equality through Avani organization. This work has reached many people in the village.

Six months ago when village panchayat elections were held in Nandwal village, a woman named Trishala (name changed) stood in our ward as a woman candidate. She used to visit my house…

I facilitated SALT conversation in a village where. children and men were present. In the beginning, everyone was looking at each other, wondering what to say, but eventually everyone started talking...

One of the girls,…

In the village of Nandwal, work has been going on for the last two years through SALT under Avani organization. Gram Panchayat, other villagers, children, and women had created a dream in their village. 

n the common village dream, the Gram Panchayat, and the villagers dreamed of planting trees in it. Everyone had this dream but no one could take the initiative…

Priyanka, who lives in Nandwal, has spent her days in hardship since her childhood because her mother died when she was young and her father remarried. Stepmother did not give Priyanka motherly love at all. She tormented and tortured Priyanka a lot. She did not give importance to her education either. Priyanka has a step-brother. Her stepmother gave more importance to her son's education than Priyanka . After 10th class, Priyanka…

Imran, Shahrukh and I (from Avani NGO)  visited the women members of a family from four generations on 27th Jan in the village of Nandwal, Kolhapur District, India. As we appreciated and listened to them, they shared the difficult situations they had tackled but not shared with anyone even their family members. There were moments of joy, moments of tears. We build a very strong bond we did not realise that we had spent more than two hours together.

• Results of the SALT…

A simple 35 year old woman Usha (name changed) was married into an aristocratic, traditional political family. Many restrictions came after marriage. She had to do everything with the permission of her mother-in-law and husband. She was restricted to the home, her opinion was not considered in any important decision of the house. She could never leave the house alone for any work. Usha had a lot of interest in sewing, but she was not allowed to go alone to the market to buy sewing material…

We work on the subject of Gender Equality with a social organization called Avani in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra. At present, we are using SALT process in 5 villages under the Global Fund for Children project which aims to build leadership of children, youth and community on Gender Equality.

We decided to do a  SALT visit to a family in Kerli village on 10th November.

What happened in the…