Nishtha

Rural adolescent girls in West Bengal face a variety of barriers: early marriage, lack of familial support for education, and slim opportunities to learn important life and vocational skills.

Nishtha is the only nongovernmental organization in its vicinity of rural West Bengal that addresses specifically the critical development challenges facing women and girls. Nishtha addresses some of the key issues in poverty—lack of education; lack of credit; and poor health—by providing or making accessible health, education and credit services, working closely with villagers so that its approaches are compatible with their realities.

EMpower’s fourth grant enables 1000 girls to stay in secondary school, and other actions to eliminate illiteracy, early marriage, child labor, and gender inequality. The grant also provides gynecological services in a rural area where there are few doctors available for poor women and girls.

India
Contact: Mina Das
Contact Email: mina1234@dataone.in
Year Established: 1985