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02 Jun: Screening at BRICS Int’l Film Festival

Having closely witnessed the impact of child marriages on the lives of adolescent girls, Protsahan girls produced a film on Child Marriage with the aim of encouraging conversations within the community. Their film not only had an enormous direct impact on the community but was also selected for the 8th BRICS International Film Festival in New Delhi, 2018. The film…

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10 Mar: Acknowledging the ‘Child’ in Child Marriage #GirlsNotBrides

Pune, June,2014 : In keeping with Protsahan’s aim of providing a safe and empathetic environment where issues that affect adolescent girls in urban slums are openly addressed, Protsahan’s Pune chapter kick started a series of workshops addressing child marriage on 29th June. In the interactive session, students confronted big questions about the ethics and effects of child marriage. They found…

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19 May: ‘Kilkaariyaan’: How Laughter Walks Around In Protsahan

Internships are an intrinsic part of any B-School curriculum. Abiding by this, we, Anurag Krishnam, Abhinav Singh Raat, Juhi Shukla, Prakhar Verma and Pooja Chowhan introducing ourselves as the new interns at Protsahan India Foundation this summer, traveled down from Greater Noida to a place in Uttam Nagar that changed our perspectives forever. With a to-do list in our mind…

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14 Apr: Protsahan’s Girl Warriors Campaign for Safe Public Spaces in Delhi with Safecity!

It had all started as a discussion between Elsa Marie Dsilva (Founder: Safecity.in) and Sonal Kapoor (Founder: Protsahan) when they met during their Vital Voices Fellowship Programme in Nepal. Vital Voices is an international organization that invests in extraordinary women who are trying to transform the world, one unique step at a time with sustainable approaches. Vital Voices works with…

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11 Jun: Short-Film Makers Required to Re-write Destinies at PROTSAHAN.

Girls at Protsahan never shy away from a challenge, for their stories always start at extremely complex, difficult points – social rejection and isolation, abuse, discrimination, familial pressures, poverty – but nonetheless, their plot lines are designed to move towards happy endings. For when you’re rewriting your own destiny, with hands held by some of country’s best young people, you…