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Reading Time: 3 minutes Faith Foundation’s Insights This is one of three stories part of a case study on how Shadhika’s Partners have found sports to be an effective tool for community mobilization and youth engagement. Read the other stories here and here. This is a story of impact for not just one, but many adolescent girls that Shadhika’s
Reading Time: 2 minutes A Story From the Centre for Women and Girls in Manipur This is one of three stories part of a case study on how Shadhika’s Partners have found sports to be an effective tool for community mobilization and youth engagement. Read the other stories here and here. During 2023-24 India’s northeastern state of Manipur witnessed
Reading Time: 2 minutes Khushboo’s Story from Vikalp in Rajasthan This is one of three stories part of a case study on how Shadhika’s Partners have found sports to be an effective tool for community mobilization and youth engagement. Read the other stories here and here. Khushboo Nath is a young girl from Dadiya Village in Rajasthan. Before her
Reading Time: 2 minutes This interview is part of our When She Leads: Shadhika Scholar collection. Learn more. *Name changed for privacy Karthika* is 23 years old and from Nagenahalli, in Karnataka. Karthika’s mother was forced into the devadasi system and works as an agricultural laborer. Karthika has faced immense pressure from her family to also be forced into the illegal and
Reading Time: 2 minutes This interview is part of our When She Leads: Shadhika Scholar collection. Learn more. Karina Khatun is a Scholar from Shadhika’s Partner Jabala Action Research Organization in West Bengal. Karina is from a minority community in Kolkata and has been engaged with Jabala since her childhood. Jabala was integral to ensuring that she was not forced in child
Reading Time: 3 minutes March 10, 2024 was a historic day for gender justice in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. To commemorate the International Women’s Day and Savitribai Phule Parinirvana Day, Shadhika’s partners Asian Bridge India (ABI) and Grameen Punarnirman Santhan (GPS) organized Varanasi’s first ever Gender Fair. For 15 years, Asian Bridge India has been dedicated to promoting gender equality
Reading Time: 5 minutes This interview is part of our When She Leads: Shadhika Scholar collection. Learn more. Last year at the 2023 Leaders for Change Summit, we met with Vanitha to ask how her experience of participating at the Summits over the past few years has been. Vanitha is a Shadhika Scholar from Shadhika’s local partner Baale Mane in Karnataka. and
Reading Time: 5 minutes Engaging our loved ones in philanthropic efforts can be a powerful way to make a collective impact. Being asked by a family member or friend to donate is among the top reasons why people choose to support non-profit organizations. In 2019, nearly 40% of Americans reported that a request by a family member or friend
Reading Time: 7 minutes Shadhika is hosting a virtual art exhibition featuring 25 works by Shadhika Scholars (Cohort of 2023) exploring their hopes and experiences of what collective action means for feminist leadership. Embodying the spirit of collective action shared through our exhibition, Shadhika has partnered with The Feminist Front (The FF) – a youth of color-led organization organizing
Reading Time: 6 minutes Shadhika is hosting a virtual art exhibition featuring 25 works by Shadhika Scholars (Cohort of 2023) exploring their hopes and experiences of what collective action means for feminist leadership. Embodying the spirit of collective action shared through our exhibition, Shadhika has partnered with The Feminist Front (The FF) – a youth of color-led organization organizing
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s the dawn of the new year and with it comes a chance for us to reflect on the learnings from the year before and rechart our course for the journey ahead. Grassroots leaders across the world are continuing to lead the way for a more equitable and just future, emphasizing the need for collective