Every woman's journey deserves a road ahead.
हर महिला की जीवन यात्रा को एक नई राह।
हर महिला की जीवन यात्रा को एक नई राह।
We walk beside women, girls and their families across India: dowry-free marriages, skills that earn an income, and a voice in the issues that shape their lives.
हम पूरे भारत की महिलाओं, बेटियों और उनके परिवारों के साथ चलते हैं: दहेज-मुक्त विवाह, रोज़गार देने वाले हुनर, और अपने मुद्दों पर अपनी आवाज़।
We are ordinary people who watched dowry, early marriage and no income hold back the women around us. We started Samvika to change that, village by village, across India.
Samvika Jeevan Yatra Foundation is a not-for-profit company registered under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013. Our work comes straight from the objects in our charter.
of any surplus goes back into our work, as our charter requires.
paid to members as profit or dividend. Ever.
focus areas, each written into our founding objects.
rule at every wedding we arrange: no dowry.
Six paths, one journey.
What we do, as promised in our Memorandum of Association.
Community group weddings
Dignified, dowry-free marriages for girls from poor and backward-class families, with support for a livelihood afterwards.
नहीं।
Ending dowry and child marriage
Campaigns against dowry harassment, child marriage, female infanticide, FGM and trafficking.
Livelihood and self-help groups
Skill training and SHGs that put income in women's own hands.
Education for girls
Keeping girls in school, and helping families plan for their future.
A platform for women's voices
Stories, films and campaigns made with women, about the issues they choose.
Water, energy and habitats
Rainwater harvesting, renewable energy and safer homes for desert villages.
We don't arrive with answers. We walk the road together.
Listen
सुनना
We start with a village meeting. Women tell us what matters to them, in their own words and their own time.
Equip
सक्षम बनाना
Skills, self-help groups, information about rights and schemes, and the support to use them.
Walk alongside
साथ चलना
We stay after the wedding and after the training, until she no longer needs us.
Report openly
खुला हिसाब
Audited accounts and an annual report, published on this site for anyone to read. See our documents.
A small act can change a life.
Every rupee goes to the work. Tax benefit under Section 80G will apply once our registration is granted.