Adolescent Girls Are Creating a World Without Hunger
Over the past eight years, The Hunger Project-India’s Adolescent Girls’ Program has strengthened adolescent girls’ voice, agency and choice. This has been done through girls’ leadership workshops, life-skills education and need-based interventions. Peer networks in the form of Sukanya Club (Bihar) and Kishori meetings (Karnataka) are an integral element of the programme. There girls learn how to articulate their needs and advocate for change in their communities.
In 2022, Gayatri, a young girl from Karnataka, India, became the vice president of the locally formed Child Rights Protection Committee (CRPC) in her gram panchayat (village council).
“Attending bi-monthly meetings and other The Hunger Project-India trainings gave me the confidence to articulate our collective needs better and, in turn, allowed me to think I can lead.”
