Meri Khushi

Girls at Meri Khushi summer camp 2017

A program being run by Vikalp Sansthan in about 40 villages in Mavli block with mixed castes populations of Udaipur District. Particular program has aimed to create an enabling environment for girls where community members adopt a sustainable change in their attitudes, beliefs and behaviors towards the girl child, creating the possibility for girls to access her rights and live a happy peaceful life.To put remarkable impact on community behavioral change, several activities and sub-activities having fruitful objectives are performed for instance; Girls Empowerment for Leadership development, Sports for Empowerment (volleyball & kabaddi), Skill development (through training on computer skills, English language speaking, life skill and self-defense), “Meri Khushi” newsletter (through training in basic writing and editing skills), Secondary School Education for former dropout students (Encourage to pursue further), Subject Coaching for middle school girls (extra tuition as per subject requirements), Capacity building of adolescent boys (ensuring engagement on gender based violence), Adolescent Boys group creation (to create change agent for community mobilization), Community & Institutional Mobilization (campaigns, workshops with school students, Dialogue with frontline workers) etc. and all these are executed with set strategies of check and balance approach of maintain diversity and inclusion, monitoring and evaluation for work effectiveness.