- Nandita and Nandita in Issues at Stake

As a women’s organization working with a feminist perspective, we have worked with a firm belief in collective leadership. Working in small groups with a participatory approach enables the less confident to speak out and be heard. We are convinced that an organization built on a grassroots participatory democratic process will prevent the recreation of hierarchical power structures.

• Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights: Trainings for women, adolescents, and young girls to promote women-centered health, looking at a woman as a whole person beyond her reproductive functions and strengthening her personal identity and autonomy.
  
  
• Women, Law and Social Change: Transmitting knowledge about how the law affects women, and particularly poor, minority, and low caste women. We are the “mother NGO” for a network of grassroots women’s courts, or Mahila Panchayats.
  
  
• Women’s Economic Activity for Empowerment: Women’s economic initiatives through savings and micro-credit programmes.
  
  
• Education for Equality and Civic Participation: An enrollment program for children over the age of eight who have never attended school. We also run a scholarship program that provides girls who have dropped out of school with the opportunity to continue their education and enter the mainstream.