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First Hindi Entry: Rights Reporter, Ashish shares Ram Devi's account

November 8, 2010AshishRights Reporters0

Breakthrough’s Right Reporters share the account of Ram Devi, a vegetable seller, who appeals for change in the way society treats and perceives girls.

Sarita Rang the Bell, did you?

Sarita took the Breakthrough training in Nov’09. Before the training she had never heard of domestic violence or gender issue. She knew that women get beaten up but didn’t know how to articulate that as a rights violation and didn’t know what to do about it. After the training she felt empowered. One of the [...]

Meet Prabha Singh, an individual change maker

Hi, this is Breakthrough Rights Reporter Ashish reporting from Kanpur. I met Prabha Singh an amazingly courageous and outspoken woman who have brought great change in her community with her activities. Prabha Singh is also one of our Rights Advocates

This is Kaamini's story, what is yours?

One of our rights advocates, Kaamini rang the bell. Kaamini lives in a slum near the Shivaji Nagar area of Bangalore, India. She along with the help of few more girls, all of who have atteded a breakthrough leadership training, took action against a man who used to always get drunk and create nuisance in [...]

Education and Odds: Muslim women in Lucknow

Extending the Breakthrough Leadership program, we have started involving some of our rights advocates in a new program called ‘Rights Reporters.’ This is a capacity building activity intended to enable them to make short issue based video content for web2.o. Our rights advocates are now the voices from the community directly reaching to the world [...]