FairFight India 2019
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This year I am raising money to secure and expand the work of FairFight India. We have established a project in Varanasi - linking a safe house for young girls with a local karate club. These girls live in at Disha House under the protection of AshaDiya Foundation. With extreme poverty, high rates of sex trafficking and poor access to education in the area, vulnerable girls hugely benefit from rebuilding their confidence though martial arts training. We have nurtured our pilot programme and seen the students become happier, stronger and optimistic for their futures. Now we want to do more to facilitate the changes so many Indians want and need in their society.
Goals for this year are ambitious. Our local instructors are ready to open another club and empower more young people through martial arts. We want to support them in this and also offer them further expert professional development.
Harassment for female students has been a major problem in recent years https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/07/india-female-students-eve-teasing FairFight aims to link with the university and help battle the culture of 'acceptable harassment' in the student population.
In order to achieve these goals we will need to work closely with our local partners. As project coordinator, I plan to visit in both March and October in order to help with the development of our work and identify where our funding and focus should go. I have set a high fundraising target because frankly the sky is the limit. The more money we raise, the more work we will be able to do this year, and hopefully for many years to come.
We do not (yet) have charity status in the UK so UK fundraising is based here for now. Alternatively donations can be made directly to FairFight: paypal - please reference India2019 or transfer to FairFight's account in the Netherlands (details to be found here.
Our mission is gathering momentum and helping more young women reach their true potential. The world needs this!
For more information please see www.fairfight.nl or read my project blog www.fairfightvaranasi.wordpress.com
Thank you!
Goals for this year are ambitious. Our local instructors are ready to open another club and empower more young people through martial arts. We want to support them in this and also offer them further expert professional development.
Harassment for female students has been a major problem in recent years https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/07/india-female-students-eve-teasing FairFight aims to link with the university and help battle the culture of 'acceptable harassment' in the student population.
In order to achieve these goals we will need to work closely with our local partners. As project coordinator, I plan to visit in both March and October in order to help with the development of our work and identify where our funding and focus should go. I have set a high fundraising target because frankly the sky is the limit. The more money we raise, the more work we will be able to do this year, and hopefully for many years to come.
We do not (yet) have charity status in the UK so UK fundraising is based here for now. Alternatively donations can be made directly to FairFight: paypal - please reference India2019 or transfer to FairFight's account in the Netherlands (details to be found here.
Our mission is gathering momentum and helping more young women reach their true potential. The world needs this!
For more information please see www.fairfight.nl or read my project blog www.fairfightvaranasi.wordpress.com
Thank you!
Organizer
Mary Stevens
Organizer
England
