Jeevantirth takes serious note of WEF’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021 and resolves to work vigorously to bridge the gap on educational, health, economic and skewed sex ratio front. Partner with us in our efforts! India has fallen 28 places in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021 and is now one of [...]
Women farmers continue to be invisible and discriminated, engaged in highly exploitative working conditions! Recognising them world celebrates International Day of Rural Women on 15th October every year Mahila Kisan Divas (Women Farmers Day) Sukliben threatened her sceptic husband, “If you will not give this piece of land for experiment, I will go to my [...]
Jeevantirth SHGs of Rag-pickers women received a sanitary pad making machine from ‘CRIMSON’ under ‘International Service Project 2019-21’ on 2nd October 2020 Gandhi Jayanti Day. 3-day training was given by Mr Shivam in which about 15 SHG members participated. Mukundbhai - our well-wisher - and ambassador came with Dr. Payal and took great interest in [...]
Urban Initiative of Jeevantirth was initiated 11 years ago on Gandhi Jayanti day with the aim of serving the people who keep city life throbbing. We are working in one of the biggest slum of Gujarat – RamapirNo Tekro and nearby slums since 2008. On this Gandhi Jayanti day, we remembered father of the nation, [...]
Women of Self Help Groups were eagerly waiting for the 19th and 20th of May as these dates were scheduled for wheat distribution. At an average 25 kilograms of wheat costs 2000 rupees in the market, an ordinary family stocks up about 250 to 300 kilograms of wheat for yearly consumption. It is an impossible [...]
One of our chief concerns during initiation of Jeevantirth was to make the women of Ramapir No Tekro self-dependent, to free them from the vicious cycle of rag-picking. In order to do this we began Self Help Groups in 2011. We began with 100 members and 1 SHG; this number increased to 700 members in [...]
Sheri Safaai Abhiyan (26/10/2016) Diwali is a time for rejuvenation for all Indians. Homes and businesses are renewed during this period. Businesses are kept shut and reopened on Labh Pancham, an auspicious day to commence business. Children, youth and men are busy helping their mothers, sisters and wives to clean the whole house. It is [...]
This Christmas on 25th December, Jeevantirth (NGO) brought celebrations to the unprivileged children by organizing a program that entailed cultural awareness, various dance forms, songs and plays. Held in the Baba Saheb Amdebkar Open Air Theatre, Ranip, the children cheered loudest at the arrival of dear Santa Claus. Kids from slums of Ramapir no tekro, [...]
On 10th of December 2015 Jeevantirth carried out Khusiyon Ki Home Delivery project, wherein 45 women of Self Help Groups from Ramapir no Tekro were provided with gas connections and gas kits (gas cylinders, stoves and insurance). More women will be covered under this project in future. The event was further highlighted by the presence [...]
It has been a custom in Gujarati families to load up on each year’s stock of wheat; families have to be doing well in order to do this as it needs a necessary amount of money. Such is not a case for all the families. Women working in the slums of Ramapir no Tekro earn [...]
