KARMAPLACE CELEBRATES WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH WITH AKSHARA CENTRE
This Women’s History Month 2023, Karmaplace presents to you a unique opportunity to donate to support women in need through this charity of women’s health and women empowerment in India. Instead of just honoring International Women’s Day on March 8, Karmaplace has vowed to donate one dollar for every order placed at Karmaplace in the whole month of March 2023. Women’s History Month corresponds with International Women’s Day on March 8 every year. The month of March is about highlighting and reflecting on the contributions of women to events in history. International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world on March 8 as it brings forth causes related to gender equality, women’s rights, reproductive rights, feminist movements, violence, and abuse against women.
This year, Karmaplace has collaborated with Akshara Centre from Mumbai, India, and you can be a part of this donation drive in a small way. Karmaplace brings to you a charity for women’s health and empowerment where you can donate to support women directly or make a purchase at Karmaplace, and we offer a portion to an India-based non-governmental organization. Therefore, this is Karmaplace’s Women’s Day offer for you to celebrate with pride and joy. Every shop will have a donation share to support a women’s cause. Shop traditional Indian wear, salwar kameez sets, lehenga choli, sharara suit set material, traditional Indian jewelry, ethnic pooja accessories, wooden indoor games, and more at Karmaplace.com and get free delivery on over $99 orders in the United States.
KARMAPLACE X AKSHARA CENTRE
This year, 2023, Karmaplace celebrates Women’s History Month with a Mumbai-based NGO, Akshara Centre, which believes in changing society by empowering women and girls. Karmaplace has committed to donate one dollar for every order placed on Karmaplace from anywhere in the world. Over the past two decades, Akshara has engaged in economic and social empowerment with underprivileged young women. 5000 young women have been able to access educational scholarships and employment, along with interactive and intense life skills and legal rights information. Social empowerment is complemented by economic empowerment, so young women can break out of the cycle of poverty.
Akshara also works with young, underprivileged men in low-resource colleges to support this empowerment by being a gender champion. 25,000 youth have been trained and carry out campaigns and safety audits for the prevention of sexual harassment, which reach large numbers of local people. Besides ground-level community-based work, Akshara takes empowerment to the level of the neighborhood and the city.
It has done extensive work to make Mumbai gender-inclusive and safe for women. In collaboration with the police, we helped set up the emergency helpline 103 for women, children, and the elderly for the prevention of violence. To make commuting free of sexual harassment, we tied up with the bus and train authorities, train conductors and railway protection forces, and women squads. Akshara has teamed with the Municipal Corporation to establish a Gender Resource Center.
Our latest intervention is in the Mumbai Development Plan 2014–34 to include reservations for various amenities through a chapter on gender and in setting up an advisory committee. It is Mumbai-based and has national and international networks. Akshara has been on the Civil Society Advisory Group of UN Women since 2013 and is an active organizer for the World Social Forum and One Billion Rising campaigns.
HOW AKSHARA CENTRE IS MAKING A CHANGE
Akshara provides scholarships for education, training in life and technical skills, and job placement for socially and economically disadvantaged young women between the ages of 14 and 20. Akshara trains young men to become supporters of gender equality and take up personal and social action. Akshara creates gender-oriented educational material for online certificate courses on violence against women, along with manuals, training materials, videos, and documentaries.
AKSHARA LOBBIES WITH THE STATE
In the city, we lobby with the police for a better emergency helpline for women. With the municipal bodies for open spaces and the safety of women. With public transport authorities for the safety of women. AKSHARA joins in networking with city-based and national women’s and other groups for legislation and policies.
HOW YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
At Karmaplace.com, whenever you make a purchase in the month of March 2023, we donate one dollar for every order to Akshara Centre. In a very small way, you can have a bigger impact on the lives of women in need. All the shoppers at Karmaplace will be supporting a woman's cause anonymously. If you are thinking of making a special donation to this charity for women’s health and empowerment, kindly proceed as follows: Make a donation at www.aksharacentre.org/donate-now, or write them at akshara.frea@gmail.com.
In any possible way, this Women’s History Month will be celebrated with warmth and collective consciousness towards women’s causes like women's empowerment, women’s health, women’s education, and more with Karmaplace. You can support directly or simply continue shopping at Karmaplace in this beautiful month of March 2023, which marks women's empowerment and the feminist movement.
