Swabhiman is a women empowerment programme from Smile Foundation. This initiative, launched in August 2005 in Delhi & NCR, was designed to enable women to realize their full potential in every sphere, be it home, office or community. This programme helps in enhancing the skills and information relevant to make them realize their self-esteem. Swabhiman had covered more than 50 communities and organizations . Population Foundation of India (PFI) came forward in April 2007 with technical and financial support which has helped take Swabhiman to the next level. Smile Foundation, with support from Population Foundation of India (PFI), has augmented Swabhiman initiatives on Health and Empowerment of Women with a special focus on Girl Child. With technical expertise and financial support from PFI, it has come of age.
The initiative named Swabhiman aims to cover about 78000 under- privileged population residing in slums and urban-rural hinterland of Delhi. The Project focuses on girl child /young women with an objective of empowering them and enabling them as change- agents to improve, health seeking behaviour in the community. |