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Our Girls Our Pride has achieved the several remarkable milestones on the way of Adolescent Empowerment. Girls Fellows are working as a local squad of transforming the lives of the other girls through mobilizing them. The conceptualization of the Girls fellows is one of them. During the Intervention it was analyzed that Some of the leaders are vibrant and need a further encouragement to lead their initiative and be a role model for the community girls. The Project brainstormed and took decision that there is a emerging need to involve them in community mobilization and adolescent empowerment practices and a fellowship intervention can minimize the vulnerability factors in the area and coverage of local leaders through fellowship grant will ensure new champion from the community and they would be a source of motivation for other girls. Total 25 Fellows are working in 75 Gram panchayat of Mau district These fellows are from the 25 Different clusters. These fellows have achieved the certain milestone and have taken the innovative initiatives. They are playing the active role in the community through providing the correct information on age at marriage,Education,Girls related health issues, Girls mobility, Gender, nutrition and other girls related issues.

USHA Silai Schools are community based initiatives with the aim of empowering village women to become entrepreneurs through sewing and setting up sewing schools at their own villages . Gramin Vikas sansthan has partnered with USHA and sets up Silai Schools in the Districts of Ghazipur, Gorakhpur, Mau, Varanasi and Jaunpur in the most remote and rural corners. GVS facilitate and support USHA to identify, set up and motivate village women to join these schools where they are trained in sewing and given a free sewing machine. Its aimed that they in turn teach and train other women forming a network of self-reliant and enterprising women. And that’s not all. Every time someone buys an USHA sewing machine, more than 1% of that sale amount is used to enhance and further develop the Silai School Program.
Everyday USHA Silai Schools are helping hundreds of women in sewing and entrepreneurial skills and thereby changing their lives.

Organization has covered more than 4500 families through ration and other support during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

• Total 340 Girls during the Program has been supported financially to start their career opportunities.

• Organisation has developed more than 2000 Volunteers in Mau Ghazipur and Azamgarh District.

• Total 407 Early Marriage protest have been reported between April 2017 to March 2022.

• Total 5000 Equanis owner families have been covered through the different intervention.

• GVS Has mobilized 28000 Families in Mau ,Ghazipur District through the different development intervention during the last 5 years .

• GVS has trained more than 976 Community Support Groups Leaders in which around 6600 members are directly covered through different intervention.

• Organization has covered more than 120000 Community people through community mobilization events and campaigns.

• Organisation has its implementation among 1200 School teachers in in Mau and ,Ghazipur.

• GVS Has established 5 Smart classes for girls in Azamgarh to ensure the quality of education.

Gramin Vikas Sansthan

A Nonprofit Social development Organization working in India

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