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About Samaan Society

“Samaan” it is the word used for “Equality” in Hindi. Samaan Society has focused its work on those groups which are facing inequality in some form or aren’t given equal leverage in the society. Since women in India are facing gender disparities from decades and due to this inequality they remain deprived from social and legal justice.
 
Samaan has provided legal justice to the women afflicted with violence or injustice and making them socially empowered by connecting them with the profession of driving. With the efforts of Samaan Society, many young women in the city of Indore are working as professional drivers  and  bike Mechanic. and many women are getting trained in theorganization.

Samaan Society has evolved through a prolonged process in the field of social work. From last two decades people working with different not for profit organizations in various parts of Madhya Pradesh envisaged to work with an organisation which runs on the democratic values and came together to establish Samaan Society. The people who are working with Samaan had worked in the field of Education, Livelihood, and Local self- governance in Madhya Pradesh. They have gained experience not only in grassroots work but all.

 

Because of widespread inequality, women and people of the dalit community are not only deprived of the opportunities of development but also have to encounter violence in the society. Samaan society is actively working in the direction of making the legal justice accessible to the women suffering from violence and also in their social economic development and community mental health.

 

It has been seen that in the cases of violence against women, the women is left alone as no one in the society stands for her, which makes her miserable and vulnerable. Hence, Samaan helps these women to raise their voices and stand for their better future, helps them to fight their cases in the courts with all the legal procedures. Samaan Society also provides them the livelihood opportunities where they can work and become socially and economically empowered. Samaan Society trained the women as professional driver and mechanic. The society is committed towards connecting the women with such livelihood opportunities which have so far been in the hands of men. Driving and bike mechanic is a similar kind of skill, which breaks the stereotype in the society.

OUR VISION & MISSION

Samaan Society wants to create such an equitable society, where all people have equal opportunities to develop and live life and society is completely free from all kinds of discrimination. People should live their life with positive environment and spirit of cooperation with each other.

“Samaan” it is the word used for “Equality” in Hindi. Samaan Social Development Society (Samaan Society) has focused its work on those groups which are facing inequality in some form or aren’t given equal leverage in the society. Since women in India are facing gender disparities from decades and due to this inequality they remain deprived from social and legal justice. 

 

Samaan believes that along with legal justice, socio-economic justice is also necessary for the people facing the situation of inequality. Therefore Samaan Society has also made the work of livelihood, gender sensitization, empowerment of the community and strengthening of local self-government as its goal.

Initiative to connect women with non-traditional skills and employment

Towards gender equality women self-reliance, income source and means of livelihood are very important. It is clear that in traditional social order the means of livelihood for women have been very limited and behind the walls. if we talk about economically weaker women and women deprived of educational opportunities, then these women do labour in rural areas, whereas in the urban areas like Indore, these women do work such as cleaning, sweeping-mopping, sewing, cooking and cleaning utensils etc in bungalows. Some women work on wage in factories too. These works have much labour but the income is very less. According to the study by the organisation these women get wages of rupees 150 per day after 12 hours of hard labour while in other works they get to earn hardly 5 to 6 thousands rupees with much difficulty. There i s no possibility of a better future in these works. In this situation, connecting women with livelihood based on technology can make them earn better, while the stereotype prevalent in the society will also break.

 

To bring this concept to the ground, the Samaan Social Development society, by training women inbike mechanics and car driving not only made them skilled in the work but also linked them with means of livelihood. With the efforts of the Samaan society, Indore is the only city in Madhya Pradesh where women are engaged in the job of bike mechanic and car driving.

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