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The Chanana welfare foundation with Radhika Chanana

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The Chanana welfare foundation with Radhika Chanana , as the founder trustee has expanded their work supporting Women empowerment. Working in villages in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, The Chanana Welfare Foundation has now started Adult education classes supporting older women to read and write. The vocational schools, teaching women sewing and tailoring have increased from 1 to 3, each teaching 60 women a year. Building and maintaining Toilets in community centres and Govt schools. ‘An educated Woman will help her family come out of poverty faster, accordingly the UN’ said Radhika Chanana . It is so importantly help and support women and their families.

Renovation of existing bathrooms in government schools in Roorkee

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Chanana Welfare Foundation is working in tandem with the government’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. CWF is funding the renovation of existing bathrooms in government schools in small villages on the outskirts of Roorkee. Presence of bathrooms on school premises is an important factor for young girls to attend school. It also helps eradicate infectious disease and promote hygienic practices. The ground reality reveals that the existing bathrooms in government schools in Roorkee have not been used. There is no running water and the bathrooms are in a dilapidated condition. There is lack of electricity to run pumps to supply water. Hence, these schools witness high dropout rates. The girls have to go back home to use the toilets as they cannot use the existing ones and often, they do not return back to school. They also stop attending school after a certain age. Seeing the existing conditions of the bathrooms, we decided to make sure that all the renovations u