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DAWN Worldwide and Shadhika partner to end GBV

The multi-year Initiative to end GBV, launched in 2019, is making a huge impact in the communities it covers.

DAWN Worldwide supports 2022 SamaBhav Film Festival

SamaBhav has been creating waves in the cities where the film festival is launched.

Empowering Women And Engaging With Men

Manju Devi’s Story

Community interventions that address gender norms and attitudes can promote gender equality and prevent violence against women by challenging stereotypes. By including methods that empower women economically and also enlist men as partners, these interventions effect change in individuals and whole communities. The DAWN Worldwide- Shadhika ‘Initiative To End Gender-Based Violence’ is running interventions in 3 villages of Varanasi district in Uttar Pradesh with the help of local partners. It is a community-based initiative.

TiE Boston Elects Bank of America Executive Anu Chitrapu as its 12th President

BOSTON—TiE Boston, one of the region’s largest and oldest organizations supporting the Massachusetts entrepreneurial ecosystem, on Friday elected senior Bank of America executive Anu Chitrapu as its 12 President for a two-year term. Read the full article here.

YW BOSTON Awards Geeta Aiyer

(Excerpt of an article on Geeta Aiyer Published in YW Boston) Meet Geeta Aiyer, 2020 Academy of Women Achievers Awardee On October 29, 2020 we will join together and celebrate the achievements of five unstoppable women who demonstrate YW Boston’s...

DAWN Worldwide highlights the rise in GBV in the COVID – 19 Pandemic

Pandemics, economic instability, uncertainty, unrest are all risk factors for an increase in violence against women and children. The strategies to counter the exacerbated crisis needs a gender lens response, lessons learned from previous crisis, and most importantly appropriate and...