Stand Up against Street Harassment is a campaign by L’Oréal Paris and Hollaback in partnership with Breakthrough under which Breakthrough has been conducting trainings to equip people to positively intervene as bystanders in the cases of sexual harassment in public spaces. From February 2021 to August 2021 a total of 363 sessions have been conducted […]

Punjab: The gender curriculum proposed by Breakthrough is incorporated into government school’s books of grade 6, 7 and 8 has been approved by the Punjab School Education Board. The Department of School Education, along with Breakthrough, have identified the following subjects to integrate the TKT lessons with: Welcome Life (Moral Science): These classes aim to […]

Like all organizations around the world, Breakthrough is also managing every stage of this pandemic for the first time, learning and evolving as we go. Our office is fully functional and staff visits according to a roaster system. Our frontline workers have already started working relentlessly on the ground to ensure that women and girls […]

In 2016, Breakthrough started it’s ‘Adolescent Empowerment Program’ (AEP) in Uttar Pradesh, which was supported by Ikea Foundation. It ran till 2021 in 6 districts: Lucknow, Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, and Siddharth Nagar. But what was AEP? And in a country where adolescents and young people make up such a critical part of the citizenry, […]

Adity, a 19 year old Team Change Leader from Bazar Tola village of Foolwariya gram panchayat of Bhathat block of Gorakhpur, had, in pre-Covid times, taken a training that was offered to the young adults on making re-usable cloth sanitary napkins from discarded clothes. During the lockdown Aditya noticed that the female members of his […]