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Gender Resource Center & Samajik Suvidha Sangam

Geographical Area:
Narela relocated slum colony

Supported By:

Department of Women & Child Development , Govt. of NCT, Delhi

Project Status:
Ongoing Since July’2006

Target Group:
Poor illiterate slum women and Adolescent girls.


Objectives:

  • To act as a catalyst for making Delhi safe for women through social, legal and economic development
  • To improve health of women
  • To impart skill for specific trades and to provide forward and backward linkages enabling women to be a part of productive work force obtain good remuneration
  • To establish a mechanism for linking existing government schemes for women which would enable better access


Project Brief:

The Gender resource center and samajik suvidha Sangam is envisaged as one stop shop , to bring social, economic and legal empowerment of women, particularly those belonging to the under privileged sections of society so as to improve the status of women and to make the city more women friendly. Thus a Gender resource center provides basic health facilities, legal aid , adult literacy ,vocational skill training , facilitates mobilization of women into self help groups (SHGs) & also facilitates information and access to various government schemes & provisions for the benefit of women.


Beneficiary Data 2008-09



No. of Women and Adolescent Girls Provided Services

Service

No. of women provided services

Health check up and treatment
Health camp Weekly clinics
Total

3435
2801
6236

Legal awareness and counselling

1291

Non-formal education

100

Information centre
Information on –Death certificate, birth certificate, antenatal care, widow pension, old age pension, girl child scheme, facilities for expectant women

6561

Vocational Skill Training

394