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Village Jamni, Block Warora, District Chandrapur, Maharashtra, INDIA..Kavita Mahadev Varadkar, left, a Prerika ( Youth volunteer) speaks with Parvata Bai Jeurkar at their village in Chandrapur District, Nagpur. The UNICEF state office of Maharashtra in co
Village Jamni, Block Warora, District Chandrapur, Maharashtra, INDIA..Kavita Mahadev Varadkar, left, a Prerika ( Youth volunteer) speaks with Parvata Bai Jeurkar at their village in Chandrapur District, Nagpur. The UNICEF state office of Maharashtra in collaboration with Barclays Bank and the UK National Committee for UNICEF under the ‘Building Brighter Futures’ initiative, implemented a pilot project called Deepshikha, a life skills education programme for adolescent girls with the aim of providing them with a comprehensive set of life skills, a clear understanding of gender, as well as their rights and obligations as citizens of the country. Deepshikha project was implemented during September 2008 to January 2012 in 15 rural blocks of Latur, Chandrapur and Nandurbar districts and in three wards of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. The project reached out to 64,360 adolescent girls (through 2,238 groups). 1,350 have formed into Self Help Groups and 1,198 of them have initiated savings and have opened bank accounts with a total saving of Rs. 5,842,875. The project covered 7 blocks (Warora, Naghbid, Bhadrawati, Saoli, Jiwati, Korpana, Chandrapur) in Chandrapur and 22000 girls were reached through 863 adolescent girls groups formed in 854 villages. UNICEF India/2013/Dhiraj Singh.
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Village Jamni, Block Warora, District Chandrapur, Maharashtra, INDIA..Kavita Mahadev Varadkar, left, a Prerika ( Youth volunteer) speaks with Parvata Bai Jeurkar at their village in Chandrapur District, Nagpur. The UNICEF state office of Maharashtra in co
Village Jamni, Block Warora, District Chandrapur, Maharashtra, INDIA..Kavita Mahadev Varadkar, left, a Prerika ( Youth volunteer) speaks with Parvata Bai Jeurkar at their village in Chandrapur District, Nagpur. The UNICEF state office of Maharashtra in collaboration with Barclays Bank and the UK National Committee for UNICEF under the ‘Building Brighter Futures’ initiative, implemented a pilot project called Deepshikha, a life skills education programme for adolescent girls with the aim of providing them with a comprehensive set of life skills, a clear understanding of gender, as well as their rights and obligations as citizens of the country. Deepshikha project was implemented during September 2008 to January 2012 in 15 rural blocks of Latur, Chandrapur and Nandurbar districts and in three wards of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. The project reached out to 64,360 adolescent girls (through 2,238 groups). 1,350 have formed into Self Help Groups and 1,198 of them have initiated savings and have opened bank accounts with a total saving of Rs. 5,842,875. The project covered 7 blocks (Warora, Naghbid, Bhadrawati, Saoli, Jiwati, Korpana, Chandrapur) in Chandrapur and 22000 girls were reached through 863 adolescent girls groups formed in 854 villages. UNICEF India/2013/Dhiraj Singh.
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