Sakhya Women's Guidance Cell

 Training Anganwadi workers on Domestic Violence 

On 20^th June 2013 Sakhya organized workshop (TOT) on domestic violence at Girij, Anganwadi Kendra in which 22 Anganwadi workers and helpers participated.

Objectives: To reach out to the women of 15 villages through training Anganwadi workers and helpers on domestic violence issue.

The resource person Mrs. Sunila Bhise began the workshop with introduction of Sakhya. She briefed the participants the importance of conducting Training of trainers (TOT) and informed that it is through TOT we can reach to a large number of women as one Anganwadi worker works with 500 families.

The resource person sensitized the participants on domestic violence issue sharing real life cases handled by Sakhya. She shared the community success story of action group that is helping the women to resolve community issues.  The resource person discussed how the lower status of women leads to domestic violence at home.

The workshop motivated the participants to stand against domestic violence and sensitize more women on the domestic violence issue who are linked with them.