 The delegation’s main focus was to learn
about poverty alleviation and empowerment of
women in India and to exchange experience in
management of projects in community development,
implementation of grassroot democracy and gender
equity.
The Vietnam team interacted
with the women and adolescent girls in the community
and came to know about their plight and the victimization
they face as a result of domestic violence and
gender discrimination. Women from the communities
also shared their experience with the visiting
team about the improvement in their quality of
life after attending regular informative sessions
of Swabhiman programme on gender, abuse, violence,
Right to health etc. |
The team from
Vietnam also visited the Mobile Health Van under
Swabhiman programme which serves as health service
and referral intervention to encourage health
seeking behaviour of the community girls and women.