Maitrayana
85,783 Raised Goal 500,000

ABOUT US

Maitrayana’s vision is to works towards a gender equal society in which girls and women can exercise their rights. The Young People’s Initiative (YPI) is a sport for development programme that empowers adolescent girls (10 – 18 year) and young women (19-25 year) in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. Its focus is on providing access to sport and provide safe spaces to develop life and leadership skills so that they can make decisions about their own lives and influence change in their families/communities.

Maitrayana leverages the power of sport to create ecosystems that empower girls and women to fulfil their potential. The pillars of Maitrayana’s work are: 1) enabling leadership in adolescent girls and young women, 2) synergising with parents and communities to enable adolescent girls and young women’s empowerment, 3) creating collaborations with the government, businesses, NGOs that will advance gender equality.

This is the start for a longer intervention to help girls continue their education and build their education, employability and entrepreneurship pathways through the Economic Justice Programme. The YPI has been implemented with 125,000 participants since it’s inception in 2006.

OUR APPEAL

Maitrayana's Economic Justice Programme offers hard skills training, internships and job placements in collaboration with NGOs and corporate partners. The backbone of the programme is the support its provides the young women in addressing the barriers that keep them from accessing and retaining employment opportunities such as lack of mobility, concerns around women’s safety, time constraints due to division of labour and lack of access to sexual reproductive health rights.

The funds raised through this platform will help 50 girls -

1) Build their further education and career pathways
2) Get exposure to different companies and the employment and growth opportunities they offer
3) Build 21st century employability skills such as leadership, critical thinking, problem solving, team work, communication, self-management through the medium of sports
4) Learn conversation English
5) Be digitally literate
6) Receive one on one mentoring and guidance
7) Learn CV making, interview preparation, rights at workplace, how to look for jobs online and offline
8) Opportunities to entry formal employment in various sectors such as sports, retail and sales, non-for-profits, etc.

OUR PROJECTS

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Young People's Initiative (YPI) A S4D programme that empowers adolescent girls and young women to access their rights and realise their potential.

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