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Savitri Bai Phule Woman Centre Varansi

    DIG e.V. Zweiggesellschaft Remscheid
    A project from DIG e.V. Zweiggesellschaft Remscheid in Varanasi, India
    We're collecting for the Savitri Bai Phule Woman Centre, which has been built to provide shelter and psycho–legal support to the women of police torture, domestic violence and other kind of harassment and violence based on gender and caste.

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    The women center named after Savitri Bai Phule . She was the first female teacher of the first women's school in India and in 1852, she opened a school for untouchable girls. The Savitri Bai Phule Woman Centre were built to provide shelter and psycho –legal support to the women of police torture, domestic violence and other kind of harassment and violence based on gender and caste. The centre was formally inaugurated by Ms.Helma Ritscher, Chairperson, Indo – German Society of Remscheid and Dr. Mahendra Pratap, famous historian and President of PVCHR, on 28.February 2012 in Baghwanala, Varanasi. The initiative started after the donation of land by Ms. Urmila Singh (mother of Ms. Shruti Nagvanshi) and with the financial support from German Ministry NRW via GIZ GmbH, Indo – German Society of Remscheid, Germany and Jan Mitra Nyas. The center consists of four rooms – one room for shelter, one room for warden cum care taker and one office room as place for testimonial therapy, one store room, lobby and two latrines and bathrooms, one kitchen and one porch. Jan Mitra Nyas supported for the boring to get fresh water on the land of building. It will also provide water to the poor people living nearby the center during the summer reason (when there is scarcity of water).

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