Aleyamma Vijayan

Founder

Founder of Sakhi Women's Resource Centre

Aleyamma Vijayan is the founder of Sakhi Women's Resource Centre [1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children and human rights from Thiruvananthapuram.

Sakhi Women's Resource Centre

Sakhi is a Thiruvananthapuram-based women's resource centre working on gender justice through research and documentation, direct support for women and girls facing domestic and public violence, and training on women's leadership and safety in cities. It has partnered with UN Women and national networks on gender-inclusive urban planning.

Sakhi Women's Resource Centre reports the following, on its own site:

In collaboration with two partner NGO's (Rastha in Wayand and Centre for Rural Management (CRM) in Kottayam) and four Gram Panchayat, livelihood programmes were implemented. 375 women who were affected by the deluge were supported in two of the worst affected districts to restart their livelihood in agro-related activities.
Sakhi also undertook to develop a manual, handbook and reading material on gender Planning, budgeting and auditing and trained 140 officials to utilise this materials.