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Welcome to Vanitha Jyothi Mahila Sangam (VJMS), we are extremely happy to announce that we have completed 20 wonderful years of journey in empowering women, girl children and youth from vulnerable backgrounds. We have played a crucial role in critical stages of their lives and in preparing them for employment, as we start this New Year 2015 we are making plans for another year of working with vulnerable families and empowering them.

Our Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi stressed about how  social media can play a key role in several activities of our country, our objective for the year 2015 is to adopt some villages in the State of Telangana; bring about digital literacy in all the families in those villages, conduct trainings and workshops on Internet and usage of social media. We hope to achieve this objective by the end of the year 2015 in as many villages as possible. Bringing about this development of internet connectivity and internet literacy in the most vulnerable of our rural areas can change the outlook of our rural life and create wonders.

Please join hands with us in our ‘ADOPT A VILLAGE’ programme. With a rich experience in conducting several programmes over the past 20 years successfully and economically, we at Vanitha Jyothi Mahila Sangam will ensure that your contributions and donations are spent wisely to give free trainings and workshops to the most vulnerable families of our villages.

The programme; ‘ADOPT A VILLAGE’ is designed to remove the obstacles the villages face in accessing the internet, we are in a unique position to bring about a drastic change in our villages, with your generous contributions we can adopt as many villages as possible and achieve a meaningful change in their lives, to empower them and develop them.

VJMS and the SHGs share a vision of community of unified rural population, across parochial caste lines and the gender divide, with increased survival capacity in a rapidly changing political economy, with food security, where children, especially the girl child, have a childhood, education and secure future.

The overall goal of the organization is to build women SHGs as a village, cluster & Mandal level mass organization so that women struggling for their development can con con continually take stock of wider societal changes and make necessary adjustments to survive with  dignity and security in the society.

In rural areas where a lot of people do not have access to sex determination facilities, female infanticide is shockingly common. The parents wait until the mother gives birth, and when they find out that a daughter is born, they go ahead and kill the baby by adopting various means such as strangling the baby, giving her poison, dumping her in a garbage bin, drowning her, burying her alive, starving her, stuffing her mouth with salt, or leaving her outdoors overnight so she dies of exposure.

What is disturbing is that female infanticide is not considered a big crime and rarely do culprits get convicted. Once in while there is a harsh conviction of the parent followed by some publicity, and it isn't long before the news dies down. Surprisingly, mothers are the ones who often perpetrate the crime, with the support of other women in her network. Since the mother is the one who has given birth to the unwanted female, she is the one who must do away with it. She is forced to do so at times, and willingly does so at others since she herself desires a male child. How much the mother, another victim of atrocities, is really to blame though, is any body's guess.

Where the daughter's life is spared, parents often neglect her and expect her to work around the house serving her brothers and father. Girls are rarely sent to school, and if they are, they are removed after a few years of education and put to work - perhaps sent to cities to work as maids in homes, and send money earned by them. In all probability, they are treated far better at the homes they work in as maids than they are in their own homes - but instances of harsh ill-treatment and abuse of such girls are also just as common.

Rural life is far removed from city life. Although we may have come across villagers who perhaps now work under us as office boys, peons, waiters in restaurants, drivers, cooks and household help, rarely do we ever try and bring about a change in their mindset. Sadly though, educated, urban and fairly wealthy people too often nurse a desire for a male child, and although they may not kill their daughter after she is born, they do try and find out the sex of their child, and abort female fetuses.

Although disclosing the gender of a foetus is illegal, there are numerous doctors that disclose the child's sex for an enhanced fee, and then offer to arrange for the abortion. Thus although there is a good law in place, its implementation is not as effective as it should be.

Although all of us take pride in our Indian culture, we need to recognize that there is something fundamentally wrong with a culture that assumes the superiority of males, and that celebrates Indian women for being meek, submissive and sacrificial. One way you can help counter this mindset is by being proud of the women in your life, and by taking pride in yourself if you are a woman.