This is a blog by Shadhika Project’s President and CEO, Ms. Kim Burnett. Shadhika is currently one of Equal Community Foundation’s funding partners and this is a report based on their field visit to our community areas where we run …
Let’s not quibble over our ranking: Let’s focus on making India safe
Whether you agree with the Thomson Reuters poll (2018) or with the critics of the poll – you cannot deny that women are unsafe in India. We can debate whether India is first on the list, or fifth on the
“It’s not okay to not intervene”
Harshad and Shubham are active participants of Action for Equality Programme who think it’s important to take some action against any form of gender-based violence and discrimination around us. As one of them points out, “if we don’t try to …
Big Meet and Greet: The collective of changemakers
Through the Action for Equality programme, we aim to raise Gender Equitable Boys who actively make efforts to stand up against gender-based violence. We understand that it is a gradual process and not an overnight transformation and it needs a …
Balaji Rathod
Programme Mentor
Balaji holds a masters degree in social work from Karve Institute of Social Service, Pune.
Before joining ECF, Balaji had interned with Pratham Education Foundation, Ayodhya Charitable Trust, Yardi CSR.
Gender-based discrimination and violence is something he has …
Heena
Jnr. Programme Design and Development Manager
Heena holds an engineering degree in Information Technology from Punjab University. She has worked with ZS Associates as a senior technology analyst. Around 2015, Heena decided to change her career path and get involved …
The Journey of Hummingbird Raise
Over the last two years, Equal Community Foundation has provided technical support to 12 organisations in West Bengal to adopt the approach of engaging adolescents particularly boys to raise them to be gender equitable. This programme is called Hummingbird Raise.…
My learning journey at ECF
My internship at ECF began as a result of the placements which took place at the university in which I was studying i.e. Savitribai Phule Pune University. I was pursuing a postgraduate diploma in gender, culture and development studies and …
My experience at ECF
When I began pursuing a degree in Economics last year, I was introduced to several co curricular activities and clubs within my college. One of them was the Social Service Club, Samarpan. I have been involved in several activities over …
What’s happening: 3 months of AFE in under 2 minutes
Since its inception in nine years ago, 4493 young boys have enrolled in our core initiative, the Action for Equality (AfE) programme. Out of these, 2438 graduated.
From November 2016 to February 2017, we conducted the 17th programme cycle of …