Katha runs various other community programs and workshops for women, youth and adolescent girls. Katha also organizes the Mothers’ Associations (Ma Mandal), whereby women are empowered to take on advocacy roles for their respective communities. We provide skill based training to women on financial, advocacy, leadership and community-engagement skills. Workshops that espouse the benefits of education, literacy, gender empowerment, sanitation, health and financial literacy are being conducted in an engaging and enjoyable way. These trained women, in turn, become the informal leaders to take forward reading programs in their respective communities. 

Highlights 

• Trained more than 10 lakh women from 2000+ slums, tribal and rural communities across states of India
• 500+ Ma Mandals trained to take up advocacy and community initiatives 
• Community Owned and Operated Libraries (COOLs) set up as community resource hub run by community women and help them earn their livelihood as well as serves as a nodal point for the training and empowerment of fellow community women
• Training on WASH, SHE2, Functional Literacy and Financial Literacy, Digital Literacy

Key Donors

Tata Communication Ltd. Worldreader, Samhita, Ashoka Changemakers, DASRA, Comic Relief, British Asian Trust, CAF-India, NSE Foundation, Australian High Commission, New Zealand High Commission.