Mahila Sarvangeen Utkarsh Mandal (MASUM)

MASUM’s community level involvement is primarily with rural women in perennially drought-prone areas of Pune and Ahmednagar Districts of Maharashtra State. Acknowledging that women are not a homogeneous category and that multiple systems of domination – such as caste, class, religion and patriarchy – operate in an intersectional manner, MASUM predominantly works with subordinated and minority-groups.

Goals:

To strengthen women’s self-reliance and consciousness of human and constitutional rights
To empower women to put pressure on the State for fulfilling its obligations towards its people
To nurture women’s physical and emotional health
To provide vocational training and credit facilities to women for economic empowerment
To create a sustainable and humane mode of development through people’s active involvement
To create a progressive space in society for all subordinated groups, and to specifically resist casteism, sexism, religious chauvinism, homophobia and able-bodied hegemony