Collaborators Category: Featured Collaborations

Khabar Lahariya is India’s only digital rural news network. What makes Khabar Lahariya unique is not just their journalists – women from Dalit, tribal, Muslim and backward castes – but also their groundbreaking rural journalism.They are prominent as a women-run brand of ethical and independent rural news. Khabar Lahariya reaches five million people a month through multiple digital platforms and have a network of 30 women reporters and stringers in 13 districts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Muktha Foundation is a Karnataka based initiative focussing on training, research, and advocacy pertaining to the prevention of abuse and promotion of mental health. The motto of the foundation is to prevent interpersonal violence and promote intrapersonal wellness

LXME is India’s first financial platform for women. LXME provides experts-backed, hassle free financial advice to women. They aim to inspire a wave of financially fearless women actively managing their money and achieving their dreams. Beyond encouraging women to save and invest smartly, LXME believes in the power of building a community for women to drive money conversations.

Agami advances ideas that serve justice. Agami does this by identifying ideas, reframing problems, curating leaders and catalysing collaborative action. They do this with a mindset of abundance and transparency.

The Queer Muslim Project is South Asia’s largest virtual network of Queer, Muslim and allied individuals which regularly creates digital content to raise awareness about and safeguard the rights of LGBTQIA+ persons. Their major focus is on creating a safe space for Queer Muslims to get together and build a support system for them outside their homes. They focus on creating awareness, establishing dialogue, educating Queer Muslims and outreaching to their respective families and friends.

Child Rights and You was born of a dream to ensure happier childhoods for all children. Over the past 4 decades, CRY works with 102 local NGOs across 19 states in India and has impacted the lives of over 3 million children.

HAQ: Centre for Child Rights works towards the recognition, promotion and protection of rights of all children. It aims to look at the child in an integrated manner within the framework of the Constitution of India, and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, which India ratified in 1992, and contribute to the building of an environment where every child’s rights are recognised and promoted without discrimination.

Hidden Pockets Collective (HPC) is a Non Profit Organisation. It is registered in Karnataka, India. It works around raising awareness and educating young girls and women about their sexual and reproductive health and rights. Currently it is running its programs in Karnataka, Bihar and Kerala. Through its programs, HPC conducts workshops in Government Schools and colleges and also in underprivileged community so that young people can get accurate information on SRHR.

Centre for Social Justice is a socio-legal, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) initiated by Institute for Development Education and Learning (IDEAL). CSJ is one of the first organisations of its kind in India that uses the judicial system to fight for the rights of maginalised people.

Blank Noise is a community of ‘Action Sheroes/ Heroes/ Theyroes’ ; citizens and persons taking agency to end sexual and gender based violence. Blank Noise was initiated in 2003, as a student project, in response to the normalisation of street harassment, in India and globally. Over the 18 years, Blank Noise has designed numerous public and participatory projects to affect public consciousness and build collective responsibility towards the issue. Blank Noise proposes and facilitates ideas for new collective action. Its interventions enable women, girls and persons to confront the climate of fear, warnings and victim blame. Projects are designed to heal, initiate trust, and build empathy. Interventions such as Meet To Sleep invite women and persons to take a nap in public parks, under the open skies, claiming the right to live free from fear and defenceless. Meet To Sleep enables women to create a new relationship with their bodies and their public environments, one which is not rooted in shame and fear, but in pride and belonging.

Blank Noise is built on the lived experiences and labour of its Action Sheroes/ Heroes/ Theyroes. It rests on the power of collaboration with the larger feminist movement , feminist collectives, everyday citizens and community. Blank Noise works towards creating feminist futures, across sites of violence ranging from streets, campuses, home or the web. It’s new project the Action Sheroes Guide To Gender Justice is piloted in association with Nyaaya.