Currently operating in two locations: Raksera and Bichpadi villages in Haryana, the Swabhiman Kendra Centres provide women with spaces they can truly call their own. Today, these spaces have evolved into more than community centres, giving rise to a small handicrafts initiative led by women and girls from the region. They knit and create a range of handmade products, including crochet items, tote bags, keychains, bookmarks, and more. Recently, the initiative also gave the women an opportunity to showcase and sell their products through stalls at different occasions.
Women domestic workers and their adolescent children are supported with a safe Space, where they participate in individual and collective learning and building strong bonds of trust and community.
Women and adolescents undertake community-based action research to identify challenges in their daily lives that directly and indirectly impact their safety and co-create solutions, developing an empowered collective Voice as a part of the process.
Women and adolescents exercise their Agency by engaging with local decision makers and authorities, sharing their collective experiences and data, and seeking implementation of their co-developed solutions.
A resettlement colony that was established between 1999 and 2000 by the Government, it is estimated that Gautampuri has a population of about 1 lakh. Residents estimate that the community houses 15000 families, largely migrants. Most women work as domestic workers, or construction workers
Situated in the heart of high rises, just off the Golf Course Road in Gurgaon, Harijan Basti is home to roughly 60,000 residents. Almost all women in the Basti are engaged in domestic work in the nearby high rises. Men work either as guards, housekeeping staff, drivers or as car cleaners in the same condominiums.
