International Day of the Girl Child, India, October 2014
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Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls with Dr Kiran Martin of the Asha Community Health and Development Society (ASHA), New Delhi, 11 October 2014. The Ambassador visited an urban Delhi slum, the working area of the Australian supported NGO ASHA.
Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls with girls from the Asha Community Health and Development Society (ASHA), New Delhi, 11 October 2014. Australian funding for ASHA covers financial literacy and women’s empowerment workshops, scholarships, training, educational resources and educational institute visits.
Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls meets with high school and university women students, who are supported by Asha to access educational opportunities, New Delhi, 11 October 2014.
Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls with Dr Kiran Martin founder of the Asha Community Health and Development Society (ASHA), New Delhi, 11 October 2014.
Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls, is shown Aga Khan Foundation’s (AKF) work on the restoration of Humayun’s Tomb, New Delhi, 12 October 2014.
The Australian funded AKF project in the nearby Nizamuddin Basti, an urban Delhi slum and a Muslim community, supports women engaged in the AKF Insha Crafts Centre to develop and build their income generation capacity.
Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls, with women at Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, 12 October 2014. The Harijan Basti in Vasant Kunj is one of the target communities under the DFAT-funded ‘Swachch Dilli Swasth Dilli’ (Clean Delhi Healthy Delhi) project. The Ambassador met with WaterAid India staff, staff of its local NGO partner, FORCE, and women benefitting from the project, who have developed their leadership capacity to manage and monitor Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in their local community.
(Credit: Wateraid/Mohammad Naveed)
Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls with women community leaders and girls at Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, 12 October 2014. The Harijan Basti in Vasant Kunj is one of the target communities under the DFAT-funded ‘Swachch Dilli Swasth Dilli’ (Clean Delhi Healthy Delhi) project. The Ambassador met with WaterAid India staff, staff of its local NGO partner, FORCE, and women benefitting from the project, who have developed their leadership capacity to manage and monitor Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in their local community.
(Credit: Wateraid/Mohammad Naveed)
Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls, Your Turn Now founder Rushabh Turakhia and Australian Consul General Mark Pierce with Your Turn Now beneficiaries at Apnalaya NGO centre, Mumbai, 14 October 2014. Apnalaya is an organisation founded with Australian support in 1972 which assists slum communities to access basic amenities and build their leadership capacity.
Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girl visits the Apnalaya crèche and women’s empowerment centre, Mumbai, India, 14 October 2014.
Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls, visits the Deonar urban slum in Mumbai, 14 October 2014. Australian funded Apnalaya works with members of the Deonar community to help them achieve a better quality of life.
Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls at the Australian funded Apne Aap Women’s Collective (at Sophia College), Mumbai, 14 October 2014. Apne Aap works to end sex trafficking and support sex workers and their children in Asia’s largest red light district.
Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls, and Australian Consul General Mark Pierce with Dr.(Sr.) Ananda Amritmahal,(Principal) and students of Sophia College for Women, Mumbai, 14 October 2014. Sophia College, Mumbai’s leading university for women (and a campus of the University of Mumbai), prioritises young women’s leadership and ‘Pathways to Power’.
Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls, meets children at Salaam Baalak Trust, an Indian non-profit and non-governmental organization which, with Australian support, provides support for street children in Mumbai. Mumbai, 14 October 2014.
Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls, with the Principal Secretary of the Maharashtra Department of Women’s and Children’s Development, Dr Ujval Uke, Mumbai, 14 October 2014.