Dalit Women's Collective
Saidabad
What do we do?
The larger motive is to address the Macro-Problems while still catering to the Micro-Problems that are hyper-specific to the locale, which are largely ignored.
Our current focus is majorly on education.
We teach 100+ in schools kids after school.
We serve breakfast for about 100 Tenth-grade students of a Govt. School for the extra classes in the morning
Savtribai Phule Knowledge Center
Adult Literacy center
After-school learning center
Reading room
Digital Training center
Research
Publications
Internships
After-school learning center
100+ 7
Students Teachers
Adult Literacy
Digital Literacy
70+ 8
Students Computers
Crafts and activities to stimulate the Young minds into taking action
We make our own 'Apples'
Our greatest incentive
Endearing smiles on these adorable faces
Accolades & Recognition
Past Activities
A 'Happy (Little) Feet' story
Far from our modern civilization, are a few kids in the forest areas of Yamanpally. They would walk a few kilometers barefoot on rocky terrain every single day just to go to school.
Their baby feet couldn't take that. Their tender soles started to harden, crack and develop corns & calluses.
27 of such students were handed shoes from us (DWC) so their feet & their dreams are protected (at least until they outgrow them).
Yamanpally Govt school, Jayashanker Bhupalapally district
This program is organized by the Democratic Teachers Federation district unit Head Master Rajeswar Rao Teacher and the DTF General secretary and I Tirupathy Reddy participated.
Women Empowerment
Credit Linkages to women
Skill/Livelihood training centers
3 training centers
40 women benefactors
Adult Literacy programs
Legal Literacy programs
Counseling (career, family and marital, etc..)
Skill/Livelihood Training centers
3 40
Training Centers Women Beneficiaries
200+ mobiles crowd-sourced for online classes
In the time of the pandemic and online classes, through an Initiative 'Each one, Reach one', over 200 mobile phones were donated to school kids by various people across the world.
These mobile phones were the only nexus between the kids and their schools during those two years.
Awareness Camps
200+
Attendees
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How do children learn to become men and women?
This deceptively simple question is at the heart of the darkness that governs much of our social reality. In these complex neighborhoods on the foreshore of the Saroornagar tank, we meet men and women of extraordinary courage just as we see men and women inflicting unspeakable violence upon their own and others' bodies. And then there are the pre-adolescents and adolescents discovering and testing their own masculinities and femininities and all the indescribably difficult ambiguities between and beyond them. Education here is not just about scholarships and mid-day meals. It is all that but much more profoundly it is about imminent death and a compelling desire to live. I consider myself and the organizations I represent privileged to bear witness to the triumph of this longing for life against all kinds of odds.
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Dr. Anant Maringanti
Executive Director,
Hyderabad Urban Lab Foundation
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"Students coming from rural areas (who are underprivileged) to Dalit Women Collective play school needs to get amenities like proper infrastructure from the government so that they can contribute towards education in an amicable way and these women who are putting great efforts to meet the ends in their own way of contribution by self and with the help of few friends is appreciable. I wish the government can keep more initiation on the required facilities to run a school like toilets, proper rooms, and stationary, etc."
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Thoutam Niharika
Fulbright ILEP fellow, Arizona State University.
SA Maths, ZPHS, Kamareddygudem
Devarupala, Jangaon
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DDF is associated with Dalit Women's Collective (DWC) for over a year. DWC works tirelessly to ensure a happier and healthier society. DWC & DDF address Dalit women and children’s critical needs. The key needs being social injustice, healthcare, nutrition, education, and protection from child labor and child marriage by working with parents, teachers, Anganwadi workers, communities, district, and state-level governments, and the children. DDF is proud to work with DWC, one of the most trusted organizations in Telangana state"
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Renée Grace
Founder / CEO, Dignity Drive Foundation (DDF )
Margadarshak - She Team, CYBERABAD Police Commissionerate
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"Happy to be associated with DWC, working in slums with marginalized groups that too women and children is very challenging. Prof. Sujatha Surepally is the driving force behind all this hectic work. We will definitely make some difference
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Jupaka Shradha
Researcher
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"Dalit Women Collective (DWC) and Tangedu Mahila Sangham work for the welfare of the marginalized sections with a special focus on Dalit Women, single women, widows, and the safety of the abanded women. DWC is one of the best organizations which has been bringing a lot of changes among the people who have been living in Singareni Colony."
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Dr. S. Shanker
Faculty Member
Department of Social Work
Secunderabad UG & PG college