Annual Report 2017-18 Our Vision

Tathapi will be known as a small group with a large impact, relevantly engaged at the grassroots level throughout . Communication from us will be seen as giving voice to the people’s perceptions, concerns and needs. Tathapi’s resource centre will be a place that local workers from all over the state call their own. Our Mission

Tathapi promotes innovative women and health training and advocacy initiatives for community health and development in Maharashtra through special emphasis on women’s empowerment and substantive equality for all. Our values

• Women’s democratic rights encompass all matters of choice in their life. • People have a right to health and healthcare. • People have a right to conserve and develop their health traditions. • Justice demands affirmative action for disadvantaged communities. • Continuous growth in our capacity for effective social interventions.

2 Introduction

This year Tathapi’s work was focused more on the issues regarding Sexuality. Our Website saw a record breaking traffic in last 12 months. We crossed the mark of One Million hits. This overwhelming response made us to reconstruct the website and increase the strength of the infrastructure. We took this opportunity to make the website more user-friendly, mobile friendly and attractive. Also the review done in last year helped us in improving our content. This was the year where we started using social media more seriously to promote the website innovatively. One of the main objectives of the social media campaign was to engage the reader in more meaningful way. We could do that, thanks also to the campaigns we undertook to establish direct dialogue with youth across the state especially from rural parts of the state. We observed that the flow of questions and comments started increasing after these sessions. Podcasts was a new venture where Team Tathapi especially the seniors found a new joy of being involved in creative work. Podcasts brought many new readers to the website and proved to be an interesting and ‘with the time’ way of spreading messages.

Because of the constant work in the area of Disability and Sexuality Tathapi especially the work on the ‘intellectual disability and sexuality’ is now being looked upon as a vital unit in this area. People recognise Tathapi’s contribution. We have reached many individuals and professionals and organisations across the state and they find this work useful and important. We could successfully disseminate the resources created throughout last 2-3 years time across a considerable section in the society. This work is benefiting especially the parents and teachers who directly influence the lives of the intellectually challenged adolescents and adults. The exposure till now we have got in the area is now enough for us to come out with some concrete tools and resources for the focused group in this work which will help them practically.

This is the year where again we ended our association with some of the partners and started a new page of cooperation and collaborations. We express our gratitude towards National Foundation for India, New and TPCDT, Lonavala, Jatar Trust from , Maharshtra Foundation from USA (our new partner) and all other doners and supporters for the support.

3 1.I Soch – Let’s Talk Sexuality for a safer city

The project, ‘I SOCH: Let’s Talk Sexuality for a Safer Pune!’ was initiated by Tathapi in 2014 to create a positive and affirmative environment around sexuality based on rights and responsibilities, equality and diversity in selected Pune city colleges. Youth Innovation Fund of National Foundation for India has been supporting this initiative since inception of this project. The project came to an end in this year. The project aimed to reach out to youth (16-24) through different media including the internet and the mobile phone to generate dialogue and discussion around sexuality.

During the course of four years (2014 to 2018) it has been observed that the website letstalksxualtiy. com is most successful intervention and receiving overwhelming response. So we concentrated our focus on website centric work in order to promote positive dialogue around sexuality using this medium.

A. letstalksesuality.com One of the objectives of the website, letstalksexuality.com which was launched on July 2015 is to create a platform for discussion, and promote perspectives around values of equality, safety, pleasure, diversity, etc. The website has been receiving an overwhelming response since then. Website received more than 6 lacs hits in last one year while total hits are more than 11 lacs. (Source- Google Analytics) Highlights of the website – Till March 2018 • website mentions complete anonymity of the users • The website has received more than 11 lacs hits within last 2 years and 6 months. (July 2015 - March 2018) • Website has daily 2700 + visitors • The articles (400+) on website has views ranging from 1,35,000 + to 100 • Articles under ‘Sex Bole To’ & ‘Our Bodies’ category, Q&A (351,422 views) and FAQ section (150,132 views) are the most popular sections on website and has maximum views • Around 2300 questions have been asked and answered under Question Answer section. Currently, we are receiving 4-5 questions a day. • Poll has average response of around 500 votes • Maximum users (78%) of the website are from age group of 18-35 years (source- Google Analytics). • 64% users are male and 36% are female. (Source- Google Analytics). 4 B. Content creation: This year we created and published a range of posts on the website. May it be articles, poems, videos, podcasts, film reviews or stories and it gathered a good amount of views and also comments from the users. Total 150 posts were published on website in last one year which has views ranging from 100 to 4200+. Over all Q&A, Sex Bole TO, Our Bodies & FAQs are most popular sections on website. ‘Question Answers’ is a section on the website where viewers can ask their queries. This section makes the portal a most engaging and interactive place. This year we have answered around 1400+ questions (2300 + so far) on website. The questions reveal the confusion, guilt, low self esteem, fears, anxiety, misinformation and myths about youth’s own sexuality. On an average we receive and answer at least 4-5 questions every day. A team of 4 persons answers the questions regularly. The experts in legal, medical and social field help us in answering some of the specific questions related to illnesses, infections, medicines, homophobia, sexual identities, Relationships etc. Question/Answer page is the highest viewed page on website. This page (http://letstalksexuality.com/question/) has 351,422 views & FAQ section http://letstalksexuality.com/category/faq/) has 1,50,132 page views. (Source- Google analytics)

Opinion Poll is another interactive platform on the portal. This platform has average 500 respondents. The topics like ‘Tin Talak, Use of pills to delay the menses, Misuse of technology like Sonography, Menstrual Leave, Marital rape needs to be considered as a crime, sexual harassment, Ban on condom advertisements in day time’ were some of the topics discussed on this platform. We started a new ‘cartoon corner’ on website called ‘FUQ’ i.e. Frequently Unanswered Questions. These are illustrations by Pune based artist Ms. Rutuja Janhavi, where four friends talk openly on current affairs and day today happenings around different aspects of sexuality. This has views ranging from 70 to 700+ on website.

5 C. Podcasts : Podcast is a growing trend and a proven medium. It has the ability to relate information into digestible pieces of information, through human voices and visual imagery. We have initiated ‘Let’s Talk Sexuality Podcast’ as a place to discuss different aspects and approaches towards sexuality. 1. English Podcast are basically stories by renowned writers from different parts of India that speak about love, relationships, sexuality and human emotions. We collaborated with ‘The Story Tellers’ from Pune for English podcasts. It is a group of friends that mainly concerned about and working towards setting up spaces for community based activities by ‘telling stories’. Total 15 podcasts were published in this year. Podcasts have views ranging from 170 to 750 + on website. Remaining podcasts will be published as per schedule i.e., on 1st and 15th day of every month. 2. Marathi Podcasts - Sex ani barach kahi It is a conversation between two friends on different aspects of sexuality. This podcast aims to discuss values around sexuality and youth’s concerns. Different topics in young minds like sex, sexuality, love, infatuation, intimacy, sexual relations, violence, pressure, etc are being discussed openly. We invite experts & activists in this field as a guest in this podcast. Bindumadhav Khire (LGBTI activists), Shailesh Bhutka (Gay activist) Disha Kene (Transgender activists), Ujjwal Nene (Psychologist in Sexuality Clinic at KEM Hospital in Pune), Nandita Ambike (expert in the field of sexuality and Child Sexual Abuse), Dr. Vasudev Paralikar (Psychiatrist) have contributed in these podcasts. We have created 13 podcasts so far. One can listen to the podcasts on http://letstalksexuality.com/category/ podcasts/ and https://soundcloud.com/tathapi.

D. Interactions with youth This year we decided to expand our outreach to comparatively smaller cities and rural districts of Maharashtra. We could reach out to , Beed, Aurangabad, Satara, Solapur & Osmanabad districts through these campaigns.

6 We conducted sessions, programs & events with 9 institutes including colleges, organizations & voluntary groups. We could personally reach out to more than 1100 people through these website promotional interactive programs and campaigns. It has been observed that, flow of questions on the website have increased on the topics discussed in these programs with youth. This understanding helps in created need based & youth centric content on website.

E. Campaigning - A campaign is planned and executed to address the importance and urgency of forming ICC (Internal Complain Committee) under Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act. We distributed more than 300 resource kits (Sexual harassment at work place: Law and Rules by Tathapi Trust) as a part of the project. These are disseminated among the firms and workplaces especially in educational institutes, women studies centers, Social work colleges and social work organizations.

Achievements: • The website has received more than 6 lacs hits (Around 80% of total hits) within last 10months. (March 2017 to December 2017). Website has daily 2500 + visitors and 4-5 questions in a day. • We are successful in creating a space for positive, affirmative environment for a dialogue around sexuality based on rights and responsibilities, equality and diversity with the help of website & social networking platforms • We could reach out to 1100+ youth in Mumbai, Beed, Aurangabad, Satara, Solapur & Osmanabad districts of Maharashtra through these campaigns. It helped to increase website users from rural areas also. • State women’s commission has appreciated and adopted the content of booklet on ‘Guidebook for Committee Against Sexual Harassment at workplace’ which was created as a part of this project. This will be circulated widely through their network.

Plan Ahead – This was the last year of the support from NFi as the Youth innovation Fund initiative came to a closure all over the country. The website will be supported by the Maharashtra Foundation form the USA. We will try to take the website to rural areas in the state and connect to the youth there more. Also to increase the discussion around sexuality we will be exploring various forms and formats such as theater, songs and other cultural expressions to reach out to youth innovatively.

7 2. Education/Awareness among Youth

Maharashtra Foundation, a US base charitable organization is supporting the website letstalksexuality.com so that it can reach to maximum number of youngsters across the state. The foundation especially has supported the redesigning, restructuring and promoting the website using social networking platforms in a more engaging way. Website in new look was launched on July 15 during website promotional event at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tuljapur. Maharashtra foundation has been supporting this initiative since January 2017.

Focus of this year : Along with the day to day operations to run and keep the website updated and vibrant, this year with the valuable support of Maharashtra Foundation, we focussed on making website more rich in content and interactive. Also we tried to promote it in more creative ways. It was decided to make this website technically efficient. So far the website had received its popularity without any planned promotional activity. Hence we decided to plan a strong and creative campaign using social networking platforms.

A. Website maintenance & Updating servers : The new website was lunched on July 15, 2017. • We have updated hosting from 25000 users per month to 400000 users per month. • Recreated website with more advance & updatable theme. Updated sites structure & design elements. • One year technical maintenance is assured. • Anti spam plug-in & Q&A plug-in developed as per our need (with email)

B. Promotion of the website using social networking platforms: In order to plan a strong and creative campaign we have collaborated with AESPAES NIRMITEE, an enterprise by some creative minds working in the field of content design based in Pune. The main purpose of social media promotions was to disseminate information about the website letstalksexuality.com. We also tried to build our community base and engage with different stakeholders such as youngsters who associated with the project as torchbearers. We created total 31 posts using various forms such as realistic photos/pictures/illustrations, photographic posts, animated videos and standup comedy based on themes, such as, Consent, Safety, Diversity, Sexual Harassment, Men’s Obsession about Penis Size/Stamina/virginity and sexuality. To see the videos visit our youtube channel here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amDZzyYcWng&t=6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4rOEA22s7M&t=5s

8 The content created is disseminated on different social media platforms, like, website (letstalksexuality.com), facebook, Youtube, Instagram and Whatsapp. (https://www.youtube.com/user/TathapiTrust ) (https://www.facebook.com/isochpune/) https://www.instagram.com/tathapi/)

C. Highlights of the Social Media Promotions • Today the total reach that all the social media platforms have acquired is near to 5000 viewers. • We have 1,882 likes and same number of followers on face book. One out of every two viewers is repeatedly visiting the page or the post on face book. • There are 135 subscribers on YouTube. We have 49 posts, 423 followers and 3,066 following on Instagram and we are in touch with more than 500 people through different WhatsApp groups and broadcast list on WhatsApp. • The videos have acquired 4000 views till the date. The post with maximum hit is our standup comedy video and the I Soch promotion video. • Our Standup comedy video has 1,321 views and 76 likes on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=B4rOEA22s7M&t=5s). The promotional video of this series has reached to 6,837 people. 243 people have reacted on the same without any paid promotion. (https://www.facebook.com/ isochpune/videos/1507377499315711/) • Social media promotions have helped in increasing viewership on website.

9 3. Project TARA

‘Tara project’ supported by Tata Power Community Development Trust came to an end this year. It was started in 2015 with the objective to improve the status of women and adolescent girls through increased awareness of gender, increased access to health and civic entitlements. It is widely acknowledged that women can work as a strong change maker for village development. We reached women and adolescents in these selected ten villages through creating a network of Tara health activists (including ASHA, Anganwadi Tai) and through school interactions. The project is implemented in 10 villages and 4 schools (out of 4 two were tribal residential schools and two were Zilla Parishad schools) in Maval block of Pune district. The activities such as health check up camps, women leaders trainings, health day, violence campaign, exposure visit health services, women day, body literacy sessions with adolescents, parents meetings, teachers trainings, kishori melava were conducted in these all villages.

Achievements of the Pilot: 1. Women health centric interventions: • Successfully involved local health workers such as ASHA and ICDS workers (Aaganwadi Tai and assistants) in our various activities. ASHA have become more sensitive towards women’s health issues. ASHA and Aaganwadi workers have become our local information resources. • An informal information network of our trained health activists is identifying women with grave illness such as Prolapse, RTIs and STIs. • A motivated, sensitive and trained resource in the form of the woman leader in the village. They (20) are actively participating in the village level activities. • Through a constant dialogue in the form of 6-7 trainings in two years these women have become community health resource persons. A network of trained and sensitive women leaders is established. • Now women in the villages are vocal enough to raise questions about accountability of government health services. Increased awareness about the available health services in the area. • Women are discussing and raising issues on the village level and with the government system on the issues of Community health rights, violence against women, gender, anemia, Sex selection and PCPNDT act and reproductive health. Women leaders started sharing many cases on domestic violence from their villages as women in the villages usually tell them about it. We have kept posters and reading material with the women leaders regarding the DV Act so that it can be reached to the women in need There is a demand of retaining the activities in this project as the women in the area can learn more and act for the benefit of the community. The women leaders believe this program is an effective support system for women in rural areas. Other women should have a chance to learn this

10 information.

2. Body literacy programme for adolescent: Being in the early adolescent phase the children we were talking to (from the four interventions schools) were initially not comfortable in talking about sexuality and aspects related. We had a two year long dialogue based on the Body Literacy for children Module developed by Tathapi Trust. At the end of the last year we could observe many changes among them. a. Their understanding about gender discrimination was significant and they realized the need for gender equality. They believe that it’s important to share this knowledge with others. b. The body literacy programme was significant to lay a foundation for the gender equality perspective to understand sexuality in broader terms. c. Children enjoyed the course, as it gave them valuable information that is not readily available in the school, peers or in community. They mostly felt shy in the beginning and then became comfortable as the course progressed. d. They understand that not having the information can lead to health problems. Knowing about our body was significant in removal of taboos and to clear the confusion in children’s mind. e. The analysis of pre and post intervention also showed significant increase in the change in attitudes of adolescents in terms of gender stereotypes, masculinity, control on women and increased knowledge about body organs and its functions.

Documentation of Tara project: • We had conducted baseline and end line tests with the adolescents who participated in the interventions. A report on the analysis of the baseline and end line where we can see a clear shift in the attitudes and behavior of the adolescents towards existing gender biases and discrimination. • We also have prepared a document which have captured all the processes took place in all hese two and half years of time. It has recorded the activities as well as the outcomes after talking to all the different participants form the villages may it be women, children or schools in the area. The way ahead – As there was a demand from the schools and the teachers from the area for training on importance Body Literacy and sexuality education for children, Tathapi will try to organize it in association with local education board at Block level. The rapport established with the women (Tara) will be maintained with a regular dialogue to disseminate the resources Tathapi creates time to time.

11 4. Body Literacy for special Needs

Since March 2013, Tathapi Trust is working in the field of ‘Disability and Sexuality’ with the support under Shrimati Vimalabai Jatar Fellowship program. Main focus of the activities conducted under this project is on capacity building and resource development. Through a variety of interventions such as trainings, workshops, lectures, resource dissemination activities and support groups for parents and caretakers of disabled children, we are reaching out to the community and addressing the needs. With a good pool of resources in our hand which is ready for wide circulation, we started disseminating these resources to maximum number of people and institutes active in the area. Last year we outreached 833 teachers, caregivers and parents through training programs and lectures in different districts in the state. We are in regular contact of more than 90 parents, counselors through one of our initiatives i.e. SWEEKAR Support Group for parents. Last year we also conducted many sessions, lectures with other organisations. We reached more than 200 parents and teachers through these interactions. As well as we reached around 80 + organisations all over the state.

We are active on three different fronts 1. Capacity building through trainings for teachers, parents and caregivers 2. Support group for parents 3. Resource development and dissemination.

1. Training programs for the parents, teachers and caregivers of intellectually Disabled – We prepared a module to conduct training programs all over Maharashtra. The main topics we tried to cover in this module were Body literacy, Introduction of Sexuality, Love and attraction, Physical and emotional changes at puberty stage, intellectual disability and sexuality, issues related to menstruation, issues related to marriage, affirmative ways of sexual expressions, sexual abuse and safety, etc. The main objective of the trainings was to create awareness among the parents, teachers, caregivers and the people who are working with intellectually disabled children. Last year we conducted 5 trainings in different parts of the state and could reach out to more than 150 participants from more than 20 organisaitons and institutes. 2 of these trainings were organised by Tathapi itself at Pune with a focus of creating a pool of resource persons working in different districts so that they can address the local needs there and then only.

Outcomes of these Training Programs - 1. We could reach more than 150 teachers, parents, caregivers and social workers through trainings from April 2017 – March 2018. 2. A pool of interested and trained volunteers is ready to take this work forward addressing local needs there itself.

12 3. These sessions have successfully created a healthy and scientific approach regarding sexuality among the parents, teachers, caregivers and other workers. 4. It is a space for everyone to share and find their own solutions on the issues such as marriage,sexual abuse, fulfillment of sexual needs, health concerns of their children. 5. An excellent network of organisations, trainers, teachers and other professional in the field of disability on ‘Disability and Sexuality.’ Through these trainings we also could discuss and find many effective methodologies, strategies, techniques, steps or ways to deal sexual issues of intellectually disabled.

Some Observations - There is a possibility that a trained, active team will emerge from the current trainees who might be participating in future interventions in their local area. A small but effective network of sensible and sensitive trainers in this area of work can be an important contribution by Tathapi and we have started to plan our work in this direction.

There is an intense need to develop more resources on intellectual disability and sexuality and that is our learning from all these trainings. We are publishing a magazine named ‘Hitguj’ for parents and caregivers and they are welcoming it with enthusiasm already. Our future work will also go in this direction where a good pool of resources for the adolescents as well as for the care givers will be made available.

Training of the Trainers (ToT) at Pune by Tathapi Trust A Training of the Trainers (ToT) was organized by Tathapi Trust on 14th – 17th March 2018. The Training was for the interested volunteers across the state which we have identified throughout the process of these two years of trainings and constant dialogue. The idea is to build a pool of trained and local resource persons to address the needs locally.

They even can help us expanding our training program in their respective area as they will communicate with the local institutes. This ToT will also help us in building a local resource pool of the persons in the respective area. On various occasions we have observed a dire need of a trained and ‘with perspective’ resource person everywhere in the state.

13 Panel discussion on ‘Disability and Sexuality - As a part of the ToT a panel discussion was organised where many renowned and experienced persons working in the area participated. Suneeta Kulkarni, a psychologist, parent of an intellectually disabled child and an educationist from Pune, Sunita Lele, a parent of an autistic child, founder of ‘Saad’ organization, Pune, Kanika Agarwal and Sunita (hearing impaired and working with hearing and speech impaired persons on education and rehabilitation at V-shesh organisation at Mumbai), Dipika Parkhad and Monika (Visually impaired and working with Niwant Andhmukt Vikasalaya, Pune), and Sonali Nvangul (writer, physically disabled and activist in the field of disability) were some of them. The panel discussion was open for all. Many professionals, social workers and trainees of this ToT attended the program. More than 5o participants were present and participated actively in the discussion. One of the main output of the ToT was that we could create a pool of interested and trained persons from 5 to 6 districts eager on initiating activities in their areas is ready Challenged Adults, Pune

Some of the other opportunities we received during last year – 1. Seva Sadan Dilasa Workshop for the Mentally Challenged from Pune has organized a workshop for the parents on 8th April 2017. The principal, Meghana Joshi had invited us to deliver a lecture on ‘Intellectual Disability and Body Literacy’ for the parents. Prajakta represented Tathapi in the program. After the program many parents came to interact with us. Around 80 parents plus 3-4 teachers of Seva Sadan Dilasa Workshop were present for the lecture. 2. We took initiative and formed a loose and informal group of some experienced counselors in Pune city to whom we van refer the parents in need of counseling and such services. Dr. Anuradha Karkare, Snehal Apte, Dr. Shirisha Sathe kindly conveyed their willingness to participate in this group. 3. A session at Pune District Disability Rehabilitation Centre was conducted on sexuality and sexual rights where approximately 100 participants were present.

2. Support group for parents We have formed 2 ‘support groups’, one is at Pune and other at Talegaon, named ‘Sweekar’ for the parents of disabled children on sexuality education. These support groups are helping the parents in finding space and peers with similar concerns. They can try to learn from each other’s experiences here. Group meetings, guest lectures, films, games were some of the forms we used to facilitate the

14 discussions in the groups. We discussed a range of issues such as Mental retardation and acceptance, Human Sexuality, Puberty, irritation and aggressiveness among the MR children, sexual expressions, menstruation and hygiene, marriage etc. We need to strengthen these support groups in the years to come. The main outcome of this initiative is that it provided a space, a platform for the parents to share their own concerns with other parents. It builds their confidence, release their frustration and stress and they can learn many better ways to tackle the situations at home.

3. Bi-monthly newsletter on ‘Intellectual Disability and Sexuality’ From June 2017 onwards we are publishing a bi-monthly newsletter, named ‘Hitguj’ for the parents, teachers and caregivers. The purpose is same like our support group where people will share their thoughts and experiences and concerns. But through this newsletter we can reach to a larger group. It will be useful for those parents who could not join the support group sessions. We are circulating this newsletter among the schools and some of the schools are ready to take responsibility of circulating it among the children. So it easily reaches to the parents. The schools are playing an important role in this process. We have published 3 issues of ‘Hitguj’ till now. We are circulating ‘Hitguj’ newsletter through following schools – 1. Seva Sadan Dilasa Workshop for the Mentally Challenged, Erandwane, Pune 2. Seva Sadan Dilasa Kendra, Sadashiv Peth, Pune 3. Jay Vakil School for the Mentally Challenged Children, Talegaon, Pune 4. Prisam Foundation, Prabhat road, Pune 5. Kamayani School for the Mentally Challenged, Gokhle nagar, Pune 6. Savali Association for Mentally Retarded Children, Kothrud, Pune

4. Challenges we faced. Working on ‘Disability and sexuality’, itself is a challenging field. Building a positive attitude towards sexuality education of intellectually disabled is one of the major challenges we are constantly facing. There is hardly any acceptance for sexuality and sexual needs of these children among the teachers, caregivers, parents and even society also. Everything related to sexuality is a ‘problem’ to many of them. So it’s not easy to change this attitude quickly. A constant dialogue using various mediums is necessary. But of course the training program plays an important role in building positive attitudes and approaches towards these very important issues.

The way ahead – We will be focusing on creating more resources for disabled children on body literacy and sexuality. Also there is a need of a resource for the parents, care givers to deal with the day to day situations giving practical solutions and options. Trainings in association with the persons participated in TOT by Tathapi wil be another area of focous in coming days.

15 5. Online safe space for women facing Violence

Based on the current experience of running a web portal for youth on sexuality Tathapi feels that an online resource for women facing violence and for the individuals and organisations working with women will prove a crucial step. So we approached Swiss Aid, India to support this initiative and they happily decided to support it. The website will be a space where women can get access to vital information and various referral points they can use. It will be a user friendly and content driven portal which will be a safe space to access information in emergency situations also. It will work as a one stop resource centre where women, activists and individuals can have access to easy to understand information and tools such as videos, posters, case stories etc. Information which can be used for practical and immediate purpose, such as how and when to apply various laws, important and local help lines, support centres (government and non government) will be provided under one roof and in local language. A constantly updating and communicative set up will be established which will talk about types of violence, steps to take in case of emergency and dos and don’ts while fighting against any form of abuse. It may be on legal front or emotional. A local data base of support structures for women such as police, lawyers, help lines, Adhar kendra, women’s organisations, counselors, different committees will be provided and updated on a continuous level.

The main objective will be to create an interactive, safe online resource for women who are in need of a support while dealing with violence in their life and also to generate and disseminate relevant and digital content on VAW with a focus on practical usage.

Initial work towards identifying the needs, visiting various organisations and individuals was started in the month on March 2018. Vidya Deshmukh, one of our old colleagues rejoined us for this work and Kranit Agnihotri-Dabir, an experienced person in the field of counseling and support is helping us to take this work ahead. The website will be launched in the month of October- November 2018, hopefully, after due process of content review etc.

16 6. Exploring newer possibilities with innovation in mind – a. A meeting on Sexual Harassment at the Workplace Tathapi organised a one day meeting on “Sexual Harassment at the Workplace” in December 2017 in collaboration with ‘Extentia Information Technology’ a private company in Kalyaninagar, Pune. The purpose of the meeting was to understand firsthand the nature of sexual harassment in corporate settings, channels of redressal, the gaps in redressal, challenges of implementation, and possible ways in which we can bridge these gaps. And while doing this we also wanted to explore the possibility of using different art forms to convey the messages especially for the corporate workplace. A short note was prepared and shared with the participants after the workshop. b. Dastangoi and association with Ankit Chadha - With a focus to promote the website, in addition to addressing urban as well as rural audiences, we tied up with Ankit Chadha, to write and perform a Dastangoi on sexuality. We felt using the arts as a medium, is a powerful tool, to bring about a discussion about sexuality into open forums. Developing perspectives around the Indian context is important and crucial to preventing violence against women and again, to promote safety, better physical and mental health. That is why we felt using this Indian form of storytelling will have the required impact on urban and rural audience. The work started in the month of February 2018. (Unfortunately it stopped because of the sad demise of Ankit in the month of May 2018)

17 Resource center

Following are some of the non project activities Tathapi as a resource center is continuously involved in or initiated in the last year.

A. Process Work sessions – Last year we organised two chapters of the Process Work, "d¡¶{º$H$ J{VerbVogmR>r - AmË‘M¶m© gÌ" through ‘Anandi Self Help Center’ of Tathapi. 12 participants from different professions participated in the sessions. Dr. Ashotosh Bhupatkar, an author, a management consultant and one of Tathapi’s trustees and Ms. Reva Malik, working in the field of education and learning for the last 15 years from Bangalore facilitate the sessions with Audrey Fernandes as an observer participant. Initially these sessions were designed especially for the professionals and activists working in social and development field. But eventually we opened it for everyone interested in the activity. This is a sharing based format where a non judgmental and ‘Open’ space is created for the participants to share their thoughts and concerns. A space that helps them link theory and practice.

B. Paper presentation – Last year when we stopped our interventions in the project ‘Sanjeevani Health Worker Training Program’ we had come out with two research papers documenting the process and outcomes of the project. One was ‘Understanding the empowerment of health workers- experiences from ‘Sanjeevani’ project’ and the other was ‘Effect of a community based supplementary nutrition intervention on reducing child under nutrition: A case study in select rural areas of central India’. This second paper was on the experiment of running crèches in the villages where the Sanjeevani project was being implemented. The experiment was a success particularly in dealing with the malnutrition in children bellow 6 years. We got an opportunity to present this particular work at the international conference at regarding ‘Critical Public Health Consequences of the Double Burden of Malnutrition and the Changing Food Environment in South and Southeast Asia.’ It was a learning experience for us at Tathapi and our partners also.

C. Trainings on call - a. A session for the girl students from St. Mira’s college was conducted on the request by the administration on sexuality and safety. Gouri Bobade from Tathapi had dialogue with the students and also introduces the website to them. b. A session each for the students of Zeal College and Wadia College on sexual harassment at Workplace and the Act was conducted. These colleges approach us regularly and we have a good rapport with the faculty there.

18 c. The Ashish Gram Rachana Trust, Pachod (IHMP) has invited Tathapi to conduct one day training for the youth leaders from the neighboring villages on gender and sexuality. We took this opportunity to talk about the work Tathapi is doing in this field and could introduce them the website letstalksecuality.com.

D. Jivala This year we could publish one issue of the periodical Jivala as a Diwali Edition. We discussed a range of topics including current issues such as the historical decision by the apex court on Triple Talk, the menace of Micro Finance in rural area of Maharashtra and its dire impact on women, possible ill impact of injectable contraceptives on women’s health and decision making and choice. Also an article about the epidemic of Monkey Fever (kasynur forest disease – KFD) by a doctor practicing in Konkan area was published as the disease had a severe impact on the community health in the particular area. Our regular column ‘Pargaonchya Paravarun’ was also appreciated by the readers. The article on Micro finance was appreciated especially by many organisations from South Maharashtra as the issue had created a major unrest among working class women there. One organisation distributed 200 copies of the issue among women and general public there. Other associations

Maharashtra Mahila Arogya Hakka Parishad Tathapi is active on this platform which discusses and addresses the issues which influence women’s health in general and particular. We were a part of a delegation to raise criminal atrocities inflicted upon women participated in a mass sterilization camp, Health Department had organised in one of the districts n Vidrabha region of Maharashtra. One woman was dead and two women were severely ill after they went through surgeries in one of the PHCs. The delegation met the Director of the Health Services and raised the issue on state level. We took part in meetings organised to plan for the next Parishad and review of the process. Tathapi actively participated in preparing documentation of the previous Parishad.

19 A-Summary Balance Sheet Funds, Liabilities 16-17 17-18 Property Assets 16-17 17-18 Trust Funds 827,298.30 847,790.15 Investments 2,274,300.06 2,411,399.00 Earmarked Founds 1,424,762.19 1,991,280.81 Furniture/Fixtures 12,142.75 18,649.00 General Reserve Fund - Non 575,118.91 FC Grant payable : Smt. Vimalabai N. Jatar C. 205,946.00 Adv:Sec. Deposit 137,063.00 127,182.78 Trust Tata Power Company ltd 308,782.00 Drought Women's & Health 95,508.00 Misc. Non FC 470,341.60 627,192.82 School Project 77,092.32 Safe Space fr Women-VAW 473,239.00 Maharashtra Foundation -FC 251,865.50 162,959.50 UNFPA- 1,682.00 TDH-Creches Drought relief Child Birth in Laman comm. 26,468.00 Advances: work Income & Exp A/C ICRW-MGMS Liabilities NFI-I Soch 12,511.00 173,000.00 Donation-Dastaan 250,000.00 Child Nutrition Paper Pre.- 88,014.00 Surplus 20,491.65 38,449.12 Cash & Bank Bal. 1,845,975.66 1,748,694.62 Total 4,283,674.47 4,478,925.40 4,283,674.47 4,478,925.40

B-Annual Income and Expenditure Income 16-17 17-18 Expenditure 16-17 17-18 Donations Grant - FCRA 8,969,481.45 2,236,587.00 Grants(local) 693,900.00 831,654.00 contingency Fund 304,688.00 Grants(FCRA) 8,969,481.45 Non FC Donation Utilsed 202,048.00 223,640.00 Other Sources Non FC Tech Rept exp 957,709.00 Interest 180,737.63 192,200.00 Non FC Funds Utilised 274,054.00 1,536,381.00 contingency Fund 2,460,431.00 Misc. Expenses 110,098.00 218,036.00 Donations 301,015.38 473,390.00 Depreciation 1,776.99 1,368.78 Miscellaneous income 363,705.52 195,968.90 FC Fund Utilised 11,677.00 84,859.00 Staff Welfare 343,184.11 185,677.00 Deficit Surplus 20,491.65 38,449.12 Total Income 10,852,024.09 4,339,320.90 Total Expenditure 10,852,024.09 4,339,320.90

20 C-Receipts & Payments Summary_Non FC

Receipts Non FCRA 16-17 17-18 Payments 16-17 17-18 Cash & Bank bal 1,989,812.59 1,505,527.60 Trusts Objects: JRD Tata Trust Outstanding Liabilities-SBI Grant-Utilised 274,054.00 686,000.00 Contingency Fund Donation 312,146.00 428,759.00 Interest 157,348.00 152,769.00 Creche Donations Publication MGMG hono. Donations Received 301,015.38 351,459.00 Anandi 28,715.00 40,775.00 Resource D. Fund Tata Power Company Ltd. 957,709.00 660,382.00 Fixed deposit 1,186,167.00 1,680,981.00 Capital exp Grants: local 693,900.00 831,654.00 Other Sources 12,917.00 Other Sources 100,931.00 Investment 1,680,981.00 1,778,649.00 Investment Realised Technical exp Staff Welfare Fund 343,157.11 185,677.00 Miscellenous income Staff Adv. Recovrd Donation towards Publication Miscellenous income 363,705.52 195,968.90 Fund utilised: Staff welfare 275,973.00 149,224.00 Income on the Object Contingency Fund Anandi Fund 21,000.00 Res. Dev. Found Fixed Deposit Security deposit Cash & Bank Bal. 1505527.6 1269261.5 Total 5,035,105.60 5,025,967.50 Total 5,035,105.60 5,025,967.50

C-Receipts & Payments Summary _ FC

Receipts,FCRA 16-17 17-18 Payments 16-17 17-18 Cash & Bank bal 1,287,020.64 933,767.12 Grants Utilisation :Hivos TDH-Sanjeevani HW 5,034,414.00 TDH- Creche 1,348,487.29 FCRA Renewal Exp. 28,320.99 39,121.00 ICRW-MGMS General Res Fund 27,270.00 NFI-I Soch 1,217,019.00 1,235,000.00 Investment 632,750.00 Maharashtra Foundation 327,969.00 637,931.00 Maharashtra Foundation 76,103.50 726,837.00 Other Received 61,864.63 TDH-Sanjeevani HW 5,034,414.00 Safe Space for Women-VAW 587,500.00 TDH- Creche 2,629,433.95 Other Receipt Safe Space for Women-VAW 114,261.00 Advance received 654,795.00 NFI-I Soch 1,217,019.00 1,222,489.00 Donation-Anandi Centre Child Birth in Laman comm. 18,468.00 Staff Welfare Account Advance towards Projects Population Council Advance -MGMS Interest FD 39,431.00 Advance-I Soch 12,511.00 173,000.00 Advance towards Projects Cash & Bank Bal. 933,767.12 479,433.12 Total 9,931,569.56 3,433,629.12 9,931,569.56 3,433,629.12

21 Tathapi’s Resources

Publication Sale Violence Against Women - Booklet Marathi 268 Violence Against Women - Fact sheet Marathi 22 Anemia Mirror Chart 322 Anemia Fact Sheet 30 Menstruation Cycle Wheel set - Marathi 114 Sharir Saksharata Sarvansathi 40 Committee Against Sexual Harassment Booklet 148 Body Puzzle - Marathi 177 Body Literacy - A set of three work books - Mar) 36 Manasopachar Tadnya Nasel Tithe 24 Vidyarthyansathi Kayade Pustika 38

Thank you.... For your support and donations Mr. Chetan Shetty, Pune Pearl Global Industries Ltd., New Delhi

Artists Namdev S H, Raju Deshpande, Rutuja Janhavi, Sushma Durve,

Thank you for your inputs and time Alka Pavangadkar, Ankit Chadha, Archana More, Bindumadhav Khire, Deepa Thakur, Dipika Parkhad and Monika from Nivant Andhmukt Vikasalaya, Disha Kene, Dr. Vinay Kulkarni, Dr. Anuradha Karkare, Dr. Shirisha Sathe, Dr. Tushar Rajaram Chiplunkar, Dr. Sachin Nagarkar, Dr. Vasudev Paralikar, Jaya Sagade, Kalika Mujumdar, Kanika Agarwal and Sunita from V-shesh organisation at Mumbai, Kiran Moghe, Kshipra Tumane, Kranti Agnihotri Dabir, Lata Jadhav, Makarand Mhasane, Medha Tengshe, Meghana Joshi from Pune Seva Sadan society, Meenakshi Alavani, Milind Chavhan, Mr. Nandkumar Phule, chairperson of District Disability Rehabilitation Centre, Pune, Nandita Ambike, Nayana Dolas, Nihar Sapre, Nilangi Sardeshpande, Peter Viegas and all the storytellers from ‘The Story Tellers Group Pune’, Pallavi Rao, Prof. Vaishali Naik, Raju Deshpande, Rashmi Padhye, Reva Malik, Seema Deodhar, Shahin Shaikh, Shailesh Bhutka, Snehal Apte, Sonali Navangul, Sunil Gajkosh, Sunita Kulakrni, Sunita Lele of ‘Saad’ organization, Pune, Ujjwal Nene, Vidya Kulkarni, and all our women village health activists, Head Masters and staff of the schools from Maval Block

22 Our Team

Achut Borgavkar Zinat Ansari Shakila Choudhary Prajakta Dhumal Gouri Bobade Sadhana Sawant Sushma Kharade Vidya Deshmukh

Board of Trustees

Dr. Ashutosh Bhupatkar, Trustee, Audrey Fernandes, Managing Trustee, Medha Kale, Dr. Mira Sadgopal, Dr. Satish Gogulwar

(Nandita Kapadiya-Kundu, one of our dear trustees and loved guide took a break from Tathapi for her personal resons. Heartfelt thanks, Nandita. We will miss you !) Tathapi Trust Women and Health Resource Developement Flat No 1, 73, Sangam Society, Pune Satara Road, Near Anabhau Sathe Natyagruh, Bibvewadi, Pune 411 037 • Tel. 020 82370 24849 • Email – [email protected]; Website: www.tathapi.org, letstalksexuality.com