Key Activities
Samyo Mela
It is a “gender equality fair” a community celebration with different themes in different years to promote gender equality in the society and make gender discourse a regular affair in everyday life. This programme is organised through active collaboration with local panchayet, Nari Jagaran Committees, Youth & children’s groups and voluntary contribution from community people in all the fields. This has been almost become an annual programme.
Ichhedana
Ichhedana Fellowship- A youth leadership pathway where ideas become action and young changemakers create lasting community impact.
Ichhedana Fellowship nurtures youth leadership by supporting young people to design and implement community projects with mentorship, institutional exposure and small grants. Nearly 50 fellows have led initiatives on gender justice, education, health and livelihoods, impacting over 5,000 people and demonstrating the multiplier effect of youth-led change.
Swabhiman
Swabhimaan is a gender-transformative, enterprise-oriented livelihoods programme that supports marginalised youth especially adolescent girls and young women to transition from vulnerability to economic self-reliance and dignity of work.
The programme integrates:
- Vocational skills training (jute products, tailoring, allied crafts)
- Residential and non-residential safe learning spaces
- Wellbeing, gender and digital safety inputs
- Market-linked production and enterprise incubation
- Ongoing mentoring and ecosystem building
Pehchaan
Accepting Self & Embracing Others is a comprehensive emotional development programme designed for senior school students and young adults.
The programme works with young people to build the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to develop healthy identities, manage emotions, and make thoughtful decisions. Pehchaan encourages empathy, strengthens relationships, and nurtures the ability to pursue both personal and collective goals responsibly.
Through interactive learning and reflection, Pehchaan helps participants become more self-aware, respectful of diversity, and confident in engaging with the world around them.
Key Learning Areas
1. Self-Awareness Education-Exploring identity, self-worth, and respect for diversity.
2. Gender Equality Education-Working with students, teachers, and schools to foster environments free from violence and discrimination.
3. Safety Education-Understanding rights and creating safe, non-judgemental spaces where adolescents can express themselves freely.
4. Food, Nutrition & Environmental Sustainability
Encouraging ethical awareness and responsible behaviour towards people and the planet.
1. Self-Awareness Education-Exploring identity, self-worth, and respect for diversity.
2. Gender Equality Education-Working with students, teachers, and schools to foster environments free from violence and discrimination.
3. Safety Education-Understanding rights and creating safe, non-judgemental spaces where adolescents can express themselves freely.
4. Food, Nutrition & Environmental Sustainability
Encouraging ethical awareness and responsible behaviour towards people and the planet.
Metho is a collective brand nurtured by Equidiversity Foundation to strengthen rural women as entrepreneurs while delivering pure, affordable agro-products to households.
What Metho offers is a carefully selected range of everyday food—masalas, lentils, rice, jaggery, sattu, besan, mushroom pickle, ready-to-eat chirwa, roasted rice, and cow ghee.
What Makes Metho Different?
- No harmful preservatives or chemicals
- Handmade or produced using environmentally sustainable technologies
- Quality village foods at affordable prices
Why Metho Matters?
- Builds last-mile women’s entrepreneurship
- Operates through women-led collective enterprises (Nari Jagaran Committees)
- Expands market access for small producers
- Revives village-level cottage and food-processing livelihoods
Who Leads Metho?
Metho is run by marginalized women from remote villages of the Sundarbans and Birbhum—regions shaped by gender inequality, economic precarity, and climate shocks. Mostly landless and dependent on subsistence farming, these women are building resilient, dignified livelihoods through collective enterprise.
Metho stands for clean food, collective power, and rural women’s leadership.
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