AHSAS SOCIAL ORGANISATION
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History
Empowering Marginalised and Socially Excluded community and among them Women so as to ensure Equality and Social Justice.
- Mal Nutrition and Anemia among women and children
- Unsafe Mother and Childhood
- Gender Based Discrimination and Violence Against Women
- Violation of Child Rights
- High MMR and MMR
- Mal practices in schemes of Right to Food
History of Involvement With Men
Solapur and Sangli districts, part of western Maharashtra are known for practicing caste systems, feudality and masculine society where women are treated merely as commodities at family and community/society. Blocks identified by Astitva for our intervention on gender issues have lowest sex ratios in Maharashtra State - Sangola in Solapur district has 780 and Jat in Sangli is at 862. The child sex ratio is also shocking at 846 and 885 (0 to 6). Poverty amongst resource poor and landless communities is acute who also suffer due to recurrent drought conditions. In recent months number of sex detection clinics are sealed by ‘State’ due to increasing tests of gender before the babies are born (PND Tests).
Rral poor women face major brunt of the violence due to social hierarchy, drought and deprivation. As per one estimate every third woman face one or other type of domestic violence which is due to polygamy, dowry demands, deprivation of property rights and negligence.
Rral poor women face major brunt of the violence due to social hierarchy, drought and deprivation. As per one estimate every third woman face one or other type of domestic violence which is due to polygamy, dowry demands, deprivation of property rights and negligence.