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Literacy classes and Vocational Training
Literacy Classes: Dalit Education Centre (DEC) staff members also offer literacy classes for adults on weekends. This is an excellent way to help generally unschooled parents gain academic knowledge. Literacy classes also help the DEC staff members get to know local adults personally and spiritually as they spend so much time together learning to read and write.
Empowerment and Emancipation
Womens Empowerment Meetings: These meetings, which are held several times a year by the DEC teams, help local women learn about their human rights and how to cope with difficult family situations like abuse and poverty. Each DEC team brings local attorneys to speak to the women and encourages them to stand up for their rights. The DEC teams know that this awareness will help curb domestic violence and other gender-related problems plaguing local residents
Self Help Groups
These groups offer vocational training, micro-enterprise projects, financial savings plans and micro-loans to women in the community. DEC schools start one or more self-help groups in their area following survey work. These groups garner positive feedback from the communities in which they are located, as well as the state governments. The groups enhance the relationship the DEC staff members have with local residents by building a sense of trust. |
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