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From the Director’s Desk

We were a motley group of five women bonded with a feminist vision to “change the world”, we lived and learnt how the “personal is political”.

We created spaces without a building, where women come together to share their joys and sorrows. No one was too small or too powerful, we learnt that empowerment meant enabling others. The concept of “Sabla Sanghs”(Women Empowered), gave birth to women’s collectives. Subversively changing the unequal power relations in the family with new ways of assertion, we spoke a new language of freedom and justice for all. Women spoke out on violence, deprivation and denial, to be as we wished to seek our own identity and selfhood. There is nothing inebriating as the notion of freedom and autonomy and creating that space is our mission.

Developing as a community based organization, Action India founded in 1976, has taken many big and small path breaking initiatives led by grassroots women. Sustained balance between community mobilization and the universal struggle for women’s rights, protesting discrimination as we created alternative modes of self-help, self-assertion at the individual and the collective level. This gives us the confidence to claim women’s agency in the process of social transformation.

A gender perspective on SRHR gives us the knowledge and understanding to educate marginalized women to take control over their body. Our connection with adolescent girls “Chotee Sablas”, broke many social norms using the forum to dialogue on gender and sexuality. Making informed choices empowering girls to rise through education for equality.

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