Who We are

Who We Are

Mahila Samakhya, Uttar Pradesh-2015

Looking at the vast sea of acute deprivation and sufferings, our reach is small but we have successfully createdmany islands of hope and happiness which with our Vision for 2015 and determination to be there, will grow exponentially and provide firm grounds to the last woman of the State to move forward to a life of dignity and
choice.


Mahila Samakhya Uttar Pradesh committed to empower each woman to attain equality and their just place in family, society and governance. Towards this Mahila Samakhya Uttar Pradesh will enable ascertaining and establishment of women rights, access to qualitative education, health and economic opportunities as well as capacities to utilise them.


Mahila Samakhya Uttar Pradesh is a unique initiative. A government programme, it has the passion and commitment of a voluntary agency, energy of a movement and the synergies of a systemic organisation. Its goals are broader and longer term in nature than a 'scheme', as it seeks to bring about change in the situation of women,
in terms of equality and empowerment. MS works towards enabling women to bring about a change in their own situation, while also helping society become equity-oriented. Thus, MS works on society in general, but also through social and political institutions, government departments and agencies, and through a larger advocacy in society.


The values that MS seeks to establish (as against only quantitative targets) are:

 

  • Equity and justice
  • Freedom, openness of mind
  • Autonomy
  • Sensitivity
  • Respecting the understanding and perspective of women
  • Collectiveness/ group intelligence to be respected and promoted

Mahila Samakhya in 21 years long journey has been able to engage Sangha women in many developmental activities, their learning about rights, finance, banking has given them new sense of self worth. The new Sangha Women are full of aspirations and great urge to be economically independent. Their boundless energy and
exceptional resilience to fight back, provides Mahila Samakhya the impetus to create new and innovative ways to fulfil its unending commitment to economically marginalized rural women and their aspirations.

Their boundless energy and exceptional resilience to fight back, provides Mahila Samakhya the impetus
to create new and innovative ways to fulfil its unending commitment to economically marginalized rural women and their aspirations.

All along its efforts, facilitating economic empowerment of women is turning out to be a priority agenda, for want of any adequate economic development any social transformation is bound to get skewed and has the danger of dissipating its newly created pool of energy. Access to economic independence can greatly change the long tradition of suppression of women and denial of opportunities to her. Can we create each Sangha women as an entrepreneur managing micro income generating activities at home/Sangha level to village level enterprises, is the challenge to be addressed urgently.

In UP, the main planks of MS action are

 

  • Rights and governance

  • Education

  • Health

  • Economic empowerment