By RAJYASHREE DATTA | Director Development
Kolkata Sanved is consciously integrating Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) training into its core intervention pillars with a special focus on rehabilitation and prevention, recognizing its vital link to psycho-social well-being, gender equality, and holistic development. This integration aligns with our Sampoornata Model, which focuses on psychosocial rehabilitation, prevention of gender-based violence, and promotion of mental health through Dance Movement Therapy (DMT). By embedding SRHR into programs such as Healing & Wellbeing, Trauma Healing & Recovery, Empowerment and Dance Movement Therapy Leadership Development Academy, Sampoornata Wellbeing Club, we ensure that sensitive and crucial conversations around gender, sexuality, menstruation, consent, safe relation and body autonomy are addressed in an accessible, inclusive and embodied manner.
Our movement-based approach creates safe spaces where participants, particularly adolescent girls, young women, and youth from marginalized communities, can explore and express their experiences. Through this, they build self-awareness, confidence, and the ability to make an informed decision about their body and lives. The use of DMT enhances engagement and retention, making SRHR education more relatable and impactful. It also builds a culture of openness and trust, where participants feel empowered to challenge stigma and access rights and resources that have often been denied to them.
This integration strengthens our vision of creating a violence-free, gender-equal society and supports our mission to enhance mental health and gender justice through DMT-for-Change. It also contributes to building the capacity of grassroots leaders, survivors and practitioners to carry this work forward sustainably. By embedding SRHR across programmatic interventions, we are not only deepening the impact of our work but also contributing meaningfully to broader development goals related to health, education, and gender equality.
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