Women empowerment
Fact files

• Serious gender discrimination arises from the persistent traditional preference for the sons over daughters. Girls are more disadvantaged than the boys from birth, receive less care and fewer and opportunities, and are more rigorously socialized to accept a secondary status at home and society.
• A number of female births are consciously prevented. Though Indian law now curbs the detection of sex. But it is still widely practiced in hidden, especially in the villages. Female infanticides still persist in India.
• The national sex ratio is skewed is 933females per 1000 males.
• Due to the prevalence of the dowry practice related to the girls, they are stated as the economic burden to the parents thus it increases the chances of secondary treatment to the girl child.
• Women are subjected to the violence and ultimate murder or forced suicides.
• Lack of Education, coupled with lack of opportunity for conscious social choice, continues to undermine the rights of Indian girls and women, and perpetuate a low self-image.

Our effort towards the women Empowerment and training:

Since last two years EAAWS is actively working towards improving the socio-economic condition of the women in its target areas,

Under the adult education and vocational trainings projects, three training centers are launched, we are able to train and assist about 80 women’s of our targeted areas. Following services are provided to the women and girls who are dropouts:
@ Special adult education for illiterate women is imparted at the centers.
@ Health (HIV) and family planning counseling’s are provided at the centers.
@Knitting and swing training is provided.
@ Food preservation and marketing training.
@ Our society provides income making projects to the skilled women’s.
@ Women are taught to participate actively in home making and to realize their importance in the family.
@Medical and first aid attention is delivered to the woman’s and girls free of cost every evening.

EAAWS is working amongst the very communities who are 100% illiterates and their women’s are highly vulnerable to all types of social injustice, violence, detentions and rejection.
Our vision towards the women is to equip her with the powerful tool of the modern era The Education, skills and information regarding social injustice, health and her very important role towards the society.

EAAWS plans to expand its projects for the oppressed and deprived rural and remote villagers’ women.