Mahila Samakhya Karnataka

Aim To work towards the empowerment of poor rural women.

Constituency Served

rural girls, 2-18 years


Details of Work

MSK is a pilot project of the government of India, with a primary focus on providing development programmes for rural women. It runs creches at the village level for younger children so that their siblings are free to enrol in formal school; and it also runs 300 non-formal education centres in six districts for school drop-outs. At the district level, it runs Mahila Shikshana Kendras, which are residential centres for girls. The centres provide tutoring to pass formal school exams, as well as vocational training, health education and gender sensitivity training.

Fact File

Mahila Samakhya Karnataka

    Acronym

  • MSK

    • Status

  • Society

    • Category

  • Education

    • Sub Category

  • Organisations

    • Level of Work of the Organization

  • Local, State

    • Establishment

  • 1989

    • Focus

  • women and child development, non-formal education, creches, gender training, adolescents, girl child, health

    • Resources

  • publications, including two gender training manuals; newsletter, audio-visual material, gender trainers

    • Help Welcome

  • volunteers, researchers for short and long term projects
Contact Information

Dr Suchitra Vedanth , State Programme Director , Mon-Fri 9.30-5.00
68, 1st Cross, 2nd Main, HAL III Stage Bangalore- 560075.
Ph : 25277471, 25262988 ,Email : samakhya@vsnl.net , Website :http://www.mahilasamakhya.1w123.com