The Association of Strong Women Alone for Widows and Separated Women : Ekal Nari Shakti Sangathan, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Widows Separated Women

A mass membership based
state-wide organization
of low income widows
and separated women
in Rajasthan, India,
who organized
and aware -
are on the move.

Ekal Nari Shakti Sangathan
(The Association of Strong Women Alone)

Udaipur
C/o 39, Kharol Colony
Udaipur- 313 004
Rajasthan
India
Phone: +91 294 - 2451348
Fax : +91 294 - 2451391
Email : astha39@gmail.com
Web: strongwomenalone.org

Kota
3, Pipalda House,
Raj Bhawan Road
Civil Lines
Kota- 324 008
Rajasthan
India
Phone: +91 744 - 2450726
Email : enss_kota@yahoo.co.in


 

   Structure

  • State Level Committee
  • Executive Committee
  • District Level Committees
  • Block Level Committees
  • Gram Panchayat
    Level Meetings

What Does the Association Do?

  • Counseling
  • Work for Land and Property Rights
  • Access Government Entitlements
  • Lobbying the District, State and National level
  • Takes Up General Social Causes
  • Helps Stop Sexual Harassment
  • Changes Caste and Community Customs
  • Literacy Training for Leaders
  • Trainings, Meetings, and Awareness Camps
  • Publicizes the Issues and Causes
  • Helps Expansion to Other States
  • Develops New Leadership
  • Creates an "Alternate Family"

Members
While the Association may have many friends, supports and wellwishers, those who can become members (by expressing a desire to become a member, and paying a life membership fee of Rs.11) must fall into one of the following categories:

  • Widow
  • Separated Woman divorced legally
  • Thrown out abandoned
  • Walked out after mental and/ or physical torture
  • Unmarried woman age 35 or more
  • Woman living with husband, but the husband is so mentally disturbed, or physically handicapped that she is the one who is the "head of the household".