Breakthrough is committed to accelerating progress to improve the lives of adolescents in India, especially girls. Mostly, adolescent girls are seen less as individuals and more as future mothers and wives. They often lack the information about the career choices and paths available to them which in turn results in diminishing their career aspirations. Realising […]

Breakthrough has set up a petition to request the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, and the Central Board of Film Certification to run disclaimers on scenes of gender-based violence. Media represents a stereotypical mind-set that disregards the interests’ women and highlights gender skewed norms. Till date, this petition has gathered more than 50,000 signatures and […]

Covid-19 outbreak is stressful for everybody. With social distancing and self-quarantining protocols in place, Breakthrough India has rolled out mandatory remote work from home till April 14,2020. Team BT has scheduled Zoom calls for India wide employees in order to clarify expectations, review material and equipment needs, and readjust roles so that people can leverage […]

NCERT has acknowledged Breakthrough’s expertise in addressing gender issues and invited us to develop 3 out of 11 modules of Ayushman Bharat. This will also be translated in different languages. As a result now we have been asked to be a part of the National Resource Group to conduct TOT with their core group of trainers […]

One of Breakthrough’s current initiatives is to end early marriage in India. We commissioned the formative research in this study in order to fully understand the underlying context of and inform our programs on this issue. Early marriage is the norm in every area studied. The average age at marriage for girls was 15-17. There […]