Deadline: 8-Apr-22
The Milan Foundation has launched a Girl Icon Program that provides a platform to adolescent girls who have the passion to learn, grow and are willing to bring change. As a part of this program, girls are equipped with knowledge, awareness and skills to reach their fullest potential.
The Girl Icon Program is a Girl-Led leadership development program that invests in collectivizing girls at the grassroots, delivering comprehensive life-skills based education, and instigating collective social action on issue that affect adolescent girls.
The Girl Icon programming develops and fosters a series of self-positive behaviours that are essential for continued resilience and future leadership. Empowerment is a personal journey, as unique and diverse as the individuals themselves. Self-positive traits of independent mobility, knowledge of resources and services, awareness of gender inequity challenges, and ability to express oneself are examples of interim outcomes that support the development of resilience, identity development, and empowerment. Milaan’s Girl Icon Program provides essential empowerment training for girls as a stepping stone, exposing girls to structural gender challenges and encouraging girls to believe in their own abilities and to foster a sense of self.
Focus Areas
Adolescent well-being encompasses many dimensions. At Milaan they have identified 4 vital areas that they feel are crucial to address the comprehensive needs of adolescent girls.
- Continuation of secondary education
- Adolescent health
- Prevention of Child Marriage
- Prevention of Gender -Based Discrimination and Violence
What does a Girl Icon do?
The selected girls are called ‘Girl Icons’. The Girl Icon will undergo a 1 year training program under which they have to attend training twice a month virtually. The training will build on your communication skills, confidence, decision making skills, knowledge about your rights and other government schemes, awareness on health and guide you through your aspirations and career path.
- Girl Icon will form a group of 25 adolescent girls in her community, and empower them.
- Girl Icon and her group will do 2 community projects to raise awareness in her community on issues faced by girls.
Eligibility Criteria
- This program is only open for girls.
- The applicant should be between 12 to 18 years of age
- Family income should be equal to or less than 1 lakh rupees a year
The applicant should be school going. In case of drop out, the applicant needs to know how to read and write.
For more information, visit https://milaanfoundation.org/girl-icon-program/