Mohammad Bazar Backward Class Development Society (MBBCDS)

Country

Organization

Mohammad Bazar Backward Class Development Society (MBBCDS)

Founded in 2001, MBBCDS works with marginalized Muslim and tribal women and children in urban Calcutta, a population highly susceptible to sex trafficking and domestic violence. Through education, vocational training and counseling, the organization empowers women to combat violence and sexual assault, discrimination, high dowry demands, lack of education for girls and lack of access to systems of employment and public health.

Project

Building Women's Leadership

To promote Muslim women's leadership by conducting awareness trainings on the legal rights guaranteed to them by the Indian Constitution — mainly freedom from domestic violence, the right to property and the right to education.