What would you say if you saw girls playing football in a state which has historically had one of the lowest sex ratios in the country? Heartwarming, right? With role models like the Phogat sisters and Sakshi Malik, are we seeing more and more girls playing sports in Haryana? We’d say yes, based on what […]
Since March 2021, we’re working in collaboration with the governments of Punjab to work with adolescents to end gender-based discrimination and change how gender is viewed from an early age. We work with schools, teachers, parents and state leadership to introduce a gender lens into the subject syllabus. As we are getting more involved in […]
Breakthrough is going to add another state to its scale up plans – Odisha. We have had a series of very successful meetings with the Education Department of the Odisha Government. They have agreed to work with Breakthrough and JPAL to include a gender lens in their existing social sciences curriculum across 23,000 government schools […]
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 […]