Sports camps for community youth were facilitated by youth members of youth clubs in 5 villages of Sonipat. These camps, sports was used as a medium to generate discussions and create awareness on ‘gender discrimination and violence against women/girls’. These camps gave the platform to boys and girls to play together and communicate with each other.
One of the main objectives of #NoMoreBoundaries programme is to support youth to become change agents so that they take action in their communities. Fellowships are being offered to students of schools through the project in order to support youth to plan and execute social action projects in their own communities.
A large part of the project focuses on enhancing leadership among both boys and girls to take action on creating safe spaces within their schools, ITI and villages in order that girls may be able to able to access available opportunities to further their education and choice of career without fear of harassment.
ITI teachers in the past had shared the reluctance of girls to enroll in technical courses and they end up taking courses such as tailoring, embroidery, steno or beautician. In light of this and following the findings from an earlier assessment among girls and the aspiration study where girls shared that they are unaware of the courses that are offered by ITI. We also learned that girls believe that ITI are only for boys as they only have technical courses.
It was clear from the assessment that there is a paucity of adequate guidance and counselling on career opportunities for both boys and girls.
A survey is being conducted to explore overall perceptions of young people about employment avenues they want to avail and the factors influencing it. The study was conducted in 10 schools near villages of Sonipat, Haryana where 944 students participated.
Quarterly Report documenting all the progress made through the No More Boundaries campaign from September 2018 to December 2018.
The project undertook a baseline survey among 641 boys and 584 girls from 10 schools and 5 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in Sonepat, Haryana. In schools, students from classes 9-12th participated in the programme where as in the ITIs both young girls and boys pursuing various courses took the survey.
Gender and Life skills sessions were conducted with school and ITI students. The sessions aimed to direct the youth’s attention towards social and cultural processes their differential effects/impacts on men and women and on the relationships between women and men.
