Individuals & Families
Counselling is one of the major activities of our Association. It enables us to understand the consequences of sexual and gender – based violence in order to design an effective intervention plan for supporting the victim or survivor. These consequences vary, depending on the form of violence perpetrated and the coping capacities of the victim.
Activities
Ardent assister!
Widow approached us with great expectations of finding advancement in her case that she had filed against her in-laws pertaining to domestic violence through a private lawyer.
She had no means to maintain herself and her two children born out of the wedlock. We vigorously undertook the matter and counseled her and contacted her private lawyer in order to eliminate every possible delay that was caused due to the social pressure, lengthy processes involved and the lack of co-ordination between the private lawyer and the Protection Officer who was supposed to send a legal notice to the in-laws. Although she was unaware of the legal intricacies, we ardently assisted her by meeting the Protection Officer and requesting a notice to be sent to the in-laws and in no time they were made to appear before the court and pay her the maintenance due from the ancestral property that was rented out.
Your true friend!
Newly married couple encountered turmoil within 8 months of their married life. The new journey in a joint family was not that easy for the wife when she conceived even though she was aided by PCOD which didn’t go well with her sister-in-law who was barren since 10 years of her married life.
This aroused jealousy resulting the in-laws time and again instigate the couple by their spiteful remarks. The husband was induced by the in-laws to get into constant dissension with his wife by their unvarying provocation after the wife left her job due to her pregnancy and the huge burden of loan repayment fell on the husband causing a financial crisis in the family. The workload at home and the mental torment by her in-laws exhausted her. Her desire to live in harmony with her husband drew her to Sakhya. Sakhya not just as an institution but as a true friend worked tirelessly from counseling the husband over the phone to arranging for a joint meeting by having the relatives present for the joint meeting and successfully reaching towards the common consensus between the parties where the couple separated from the taunting in-laws in order to save their marriage. The couple is now blessed with a baby girl and is grateful to Sakhya; their true friend!
A fight against the trials in marriage
The love that had bloomed between a couple of two different communities, was short lived, even as they had eloped to make a new life and new beginnings.
The Mediator
The rift between couples subsequent to the wives low-esteem impacted the relationship greatly.