Organisational Shaheen Women Resource & Welfare

Context

Shaheen main objective is to empower the women & girls. Shaheen enables women, sexual, and socio-religious minorities to gain control over their recourses, livelihoods, and community - level decision making process. Shaheen conduct many activities create awareness program in 20 communities, public meeting, workshops, legal advocacy and counselling on domestic viloence, health camps, provide free vocational skills, campaign for gender justice society in which we conduct rallies and workshop for school teachers and other to promote girl child education.
Website
www.shaheencollective.org
Area of Work
Hyderabad (A.P)
Contact Person
Zehra Jabeen

Results

  • Shaheen has been able to publish and issue a comprehensive booklet on girl's rights and SRHR in the areas of its functioning in Urdu Language.
  • Shaheen's networking with Maulana Azad University, Hyderabad, has enabled in broadening the organisation's activities, as well as garnering it serveral recognitions.
  • Basti Vikas munch - Shaheen has identified 20 women and girls from the bastis who started organising basti meetings where men and women partcipate and interact on the issues of basic amenities, girl child education and on Domestic Violence.
  • Providing Legal Counseling, Education on Sexual  & Reproductive Heath.
  • There has been a major shift in the work of Shaheen. The girl children have become our focus of attention
  • Shaheen has created its space in the isolated and ghettoized area of Makkh Masjid where the Dalit Muslims live.
  • Children are encouraged to participate in bringing about more holistic changes in family and society.
  • The basti leadersand other man are motivated to rethink the  power structures that exist now - that are so corrosive and stifling.
  • Children participation brought focus on the issue of the sexual assault of girl children. The act is Protection of Children against sexual offenses.

Lessons

  • Exercise caution in spaces where threats are always imminent and in the form of crude physical violence.
  • A major lesson learnt is that working in cooperation with men is the only way out of this complex situation.