Empowering women through sports and education and enabling them to realize their full potentials to build a gender-equitable society
Creating a gender-equitable society in which women get equitable and fair opportunities to pursue and live their dreams
Empowering women physically, mentally and socio-economically and enabling them to unlock their potentials in life
Shreeja India empowers young girls through sports-based development programs in India. We aspire to stop early marriage, prevent human trafficking and violence against women through this endeavor. Girls enrolled in the Shreeja Football & Beyond program marry later, have smaller and healthier families; and gain skills and awareness needed to become successful in life
Suri girls take soccer route for survival.
Jhuma Marandi, 15, has never received an appreciation for anything she did in her life. “Now, a mere dribble with the ball earn me pats and cheers f from my coach, teammates and a handful of villagers around...
Football Gives Wings to Dreams of 44 Young Tribal Women in Bengal
Like any other backward tribal region, Rajnagar block on the Jharkhand Bengal border around 260 km from Kolkata has witnessed girls being married of early without the opportunity to pursue...
Open Field Football versus patriarchy in West Bengal
In the early morning fog, a group of teenage girls in jerseys and fluorescent yellow socks stand in an open field. In the foreground lies a grimy ball and a goal post—its makeshift net newly fixed...