Breakthrough Rights Advocate, Sarita from UP, India

Sarita took the Breakthrough training in Nov’09. Before the training she had never heard of domestic violence or gender issue. She knew that women get beaten up but didn’t know how to articulate that as a rights violation and didn’t know what to do about it. After the training she felt empowered.

One of the direct impacts of the training was when she heard of violence happening in a house in her neighbourhood, she went to that house, rang the bell and asked for some tea leaves. Sarita says that since then there has been no violence in that house.

Sarita now is an active Breakthrough Rights Advocate who is busy disseminating the information she obtained from the Breakthrough training to more youth groups. When asked how can domestic violence be ended Sarita said we should give these trainings to more women so that they can become self dependent and speak up against violence in their homes and community.

Story created by Rights Reporter Ashish

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