About Us
Ever since its inception, the College of Social Work, Our Founder, has emerged as a champion of human rights, believing that social work education and responding to the ground reality of human life must go hand in hand.
During the 2020’s when the “harassment” problem received much publicity as a source of violence and social injustice to women, the College readily responded to the invitation of the District Vigilance Commission, Govt. of Maharashtra, to participate in a concerted action against violence on women.
This Vigilance Cell initially worked under the Collector of Mumbai as Chairperson of the Committee. The Cell received funds from the Committee and submitted regular reports of its activities. However the official representatives on the Vigilance Cell were not able to give the attention required to approach the problem on a war-footing as was necessary for change in the system. Hence the project for Women Empowerment Association was launched as the harassment Guidance Cell of the District Vigilance Committee.
The major focus of Women’s Guidance Cell is to promote gender equality and gender justice through the process of concretization called women’s empowerment. We believes that an integrated approach of women’s empowerment is vital to sustainable development and the realization of human rights for all. of our association makes efforts to identifying and redressing power imbalances and giving women more autonomy to manage their own lives. Promoting gender equality through the process of awareness and sensitization and giving women more autonomy to manage their own lives.
Our Vision
A society where gender justice and gender equality will contribute to enable women to live with human dignity.
Our Mission
Enabling society to cultivate a sense of social responsibility to bring about a gender just society.
Objectives
- To create gender equality and sensitize the masses.
- To spread awareness and inspire understanding of the problems related to gender based violence, human trafficking.
- To make individuals especially the women & girls aware of their rights as human beings, and to empower young women and men to actively participate in development and social change.
- To reduce and prevent the scaling of gender violence through awareness-raising programs.
- To build and strengthen partnerships with various diocesan social service centers, other NGOs, Lawyers, Police, government bodies to work towards establishing a gender biased society.
