Girls' collective
Vishakha’s community-based work is rooted in girls’ collectives as its core foundation. Across 75 villages, village-level girls’ groups form the starting point for sustained engagement on gender, patriarchy, rights, and everyday challenges. These collectives create supportive spaces for learning, dialogue, mutual care, and collective action, enabling adolescent girls to build confidence, solidarity, and a shared sense of responsibility within their communities.
Girl Leaders
Alongside collective processes, Vishakha supports adolescent girls to take on leadership roles through deeper and differentiated learning journeys. Emerging girl leaders strengthen confidence, facilitation skills, and the ability to engage with families, communities, and local systems. These leaders play an active role in mobilising peers, supporting collective responses to situations of pressure or violence, and carrying forward girls-centred, girls-led processes within their villages.
The federation
Building on the strength of village-level girls’ collectives and emerging girl leaders, Vishakha has initiated the process of forming a federation of girls’ collectives. The federation-building process is currently underway, and a representative executive committee has been constituted as part of this ongoing journey. Through this process, girls are gradually taking on roles related to coordination, representation, outreach, and collective decision-making. The federation is evolving through practice, dialogue, and shared learning, and remains firmly girls-centred and girls-led, with Vishakha playing a supportive and facilitating role.
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