Despite pandemic and lockdown, Breakthrough provided gender sensitivity training to over 200 master trainers of the The Department of School Education, Government of Punjab- online, in the month of April 2021.

Adolescent Empowerment Programme Endline Survey Results. Breakthrough’s 5-year long intervention in various districts of Uttar Pradesh proves that social norm change is possible and how adolescents could build a dialogue against gender based violence.

Breakthrough has been working for 2 decades in challenging the culture that robs young girls off opportunities, hopes, dreams and choices. We work across 5 states and 3500 villages on this issue and the work has shown results! One such impact has been in Bihar, where we saw a 28% reduction in the incidence of […]

Since the pandemic began, health has not been the only thing young girls have had to worry about. The government’s 1098 helpline received over 5,000 calls in the last few months reporting incidents of early marriage; 91% of these cases involved girls below the age of 18 years. Imagine that! This is a reversal of […]

Our focus:- NCW data have informed that during lockdown domestic violence cases have increased and services were difficult to provide during the lockdown periods.  While domestic violence has emerged as a focal area, Breakthrough is also sharing content and information around how the pandemic is impacting women in general (such as an increase in unpaid […]