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Women’s empowerment can be defined as promoting women’s sense of self-worth, their ability to determine their own choices, and their right to influence social change for themselves. India’s journey towards women empowerment has had its share of highs and lows. While on one hand, India has ratified several international conventions and formulated domestic policies intended to end gender inequality, on the other hand, women continue to suffer under the highly patriarchal social order. Taken aback by this dichotomy, Pranjul Tyagi launched the BHARAT_GIRLUP Initiative to Empower Women and Promote Gender Equality.
Empowering Women To Lead the World - BHARAT_GIRLUP Initiative
By standing up for equality, women have helped other women speak up and empowered them. Pranjul is trying to do the same with her initiative. During the Lockdown, she and Mudit Pathak jointly started the BHARAT_GIRLUP initiative under UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION to empower women. During the initial phases, Pranjul and Mudit were working on the initiative single-handedly but inspired by their work, others also decided to join them, volunteering for women empowerment.
Today, with a team of 100 members, the BHARAT_GIRLUP initiative is one of the biggest student-driven initiatives for women empowerment and gender equality. The volunteers include members from several colleges and schools from in and around Delhi – NCR region. Pranjul with her team is constantly striving to help women break several myths and social barriers that stop them from achieving their full potential.
Activities and Initiatives by BHARAT_GIRLUP
Through BHARAT_GIRLUP, Pranjul has organized various events for the youngsters, talk shows, seminars, sessions, and workshops to spread women empowerment and equality. She has organized various campaigns through social media towards women empowerment and has collaborated with 500+ events to spread their vision nationally. In addition to women, she and her team with the help of social media are also working towards the upliftment of the LGBTQ community.
In the future, she plans to work towards building an ecosystem where equality is encouraged and girls are given basic and equal rights, freedom of expression and where humanity is at the top. She is also planning to develop an app through which she can bring out more women changemakers from the nation and tell their stories to the world.
Impact of BHARAT_GIRLUP Initiative
It has been more than a year since BHARAT_GIRLUP was launched and it has become popular among youngsters and college-goers. She has organized workshops to help women come out and speak for their rights, to talk about periods, menstrual hygiene and other issues related to sexual awareness. She has also put in a lot of effort to sensitize students about equality and its importance for society, especially for the youth, who want to be part of a progressive and egalitarian society. BHARAT_GIRLUP has even been part of many fundraisers to support the cause. She along with her team has counselled and guided many girls towards empowering them and helped many small-scale women and entrepreneurs by guiding them.
Pranjul Tyagi is a finalist for Most Socially-Relevant Initiative Because… she is empowering women and inspiring young girls to come up and speak about and demand their rights in a patriarchal society. Through her efforts, Pranjul is trying to help women reach their full potential without fear or discrimination.
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