Initiatives

Empowering Communities, Transforming Lives

Our initiatives bring education, dignity, and opportunity to the heart of marginalised communities.

Dignity Center

Some girls grow up in communities where school feels out of reach, where marriage happens before adulthood, and where caste determines your future before you are old enough to choose it. Dignity Centres exist to change that. We have established six Dignity Centres within communities across Mandsaur – not in distant offices, but right where girls live. Because when a space feels familiar and safe, girls actually come.

What happens inside a Dignity Centre:
  • Daily sessions on sexual violence, constitutional rights, and life skills
  • Health and hygiene awareness tailored to adolescent girls
  • Educational support and school retention guidance
  • Mentoring on social, physical, and psychological well-being
  • A safe space to speak, question, and be heard — without judgement

Who We Work With :

Adolescent girls from marginalised communities — many at risk of early marriage, school dropout, or caste-based exploitation.

What makes them different :

These are not classrooms. They are communities of trust — where a girl can walk in with a problem she cannot say out loud at home, and walk out with support, clarity, and confidence.

Over time, Dignity Centres have become the first place many girls experience what it feels like to matter.

Bal/Balika Panchayat
(Children's Collective)

Children have opinions. They have ideas. They notice things adults miss. The Bal/Balika Panchayat gives them a space to say it out loud. This is a child-led collective where boys and girls come together to discuss issues that affect their lives — from safety in their village to their right to stay in school. No adult speaks for them. They speak for themselves.

What children do here:
  • Raise concerns about issues in their community
  • Propose ideas and work toward solutions together
  • Practice leadership, discussion, and decision-making
  • Build confidence to speak up — in the collective and beyond
What it builds over time:
  • A generation that knows its rights
  • Young leaders who hold their communities accountable
  • Builds leadership over time among children

Our work focuses on

Education support
Vocational training & livelihood opportunities
Legal aid & prevention of sexual violence
Mental health & trauma recovery
Ending caste and gender-based enslavement
Through community engagement, awareness programs, and holistic support for survivors, we strive to replace discrimination with dignity.

Our work focuses on

  • Education support
  • Vocational training & livelihood opportunities
  • Legal aid & prevention of sexual violence
  • Mental health & trauma recovery
  • Ending caste and gender-based enslavement

Through community engagement, awareness programs, and holistic support for survivors, we strive to replace discrimination with dignity.

Achievements​

Girls prevented from caste & gender-based sexual exploitation
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Girls reached through prevention and outreach efforts
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Out-of-school children were re-enrolled into formal education systems.
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Survivors received immediate relief like ration, counselling &long term rehabilitation support etc.
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Survivors received mental health services to cope with trauma & stigma
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Stakeholders trained on the issue of gender-based violence
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Udan, a Madhya Pradesh–based NGO registered in 2013, works to prevent caste-based commercial sexual exploitation and sexual violence.

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