About South Asian
Women's Network

The SAWN is an effort to organise the women teachers in the EI member organizations in the South Asia Unite and unionise women teachers in enabling them to fight their concerns that are affecting them in the region collectively and unitedly devise the strategies to mobilize, encourage and support women in the region to become more active and more involved to take responsibility for women’s issues.Establish a Forum to give voice to the women in the region.

Provide an avenue for women to share, contribute, plan and recommend the programmes and policies for their advancement.Form a communication structure which facilitate women to establish linkage building, exchange information, define their needs and prioritize and prepare plan of actions Translate the EI policy on women into practice to achieve  equality for women.

Project Committee South Asian Women’s Network

India

Dr. Reny JACOB
All India Association For Christian Higher Education, (AIACHE)
Ecumenical House, 39 Institutional Area,
D-Block, Janakpuri, New Delhi-58, INDIA
Tel. : 91-11-28524752/28521190,
Fax : 91-11-28525033
E-mail : aiache@nda.vsnl.net.in

Ms. SULBHA DONDE
All India Primary Teachers’ Federation (AIPTF)
41 Institutional Area, D-Block,
Janakpuri, New Delhi-110058
Tel: + 91 22 28920518
Mob: + 91 98 20505128
Fax: + 91 11 28525271
Email:sulabhadonde@gmail.com
E-mail: aiptfindia@yahoo.com

Ms. RASHMI SINGH
All Indian Federation of Teachers Organisation, (AIFTO)
VB51, Street No. 2, Virendra Nagar, New Delhi
Tel: + 91 11 25517513
Mob: + 91 98 18 404035
Fax: + 91 79 22917301
aiftoindwomen@yahoo.com

Ms. KARUNA  SRIVASTAVA
111A/318 Ashok Nagar,
Kanpur 208012,
Uttar Pradesh, India  
Tel: + 91 512 2544621
Mob: + 91 94 50214518
Email: Karunas2@yahoo.com;

  

Nepal

Ms. SEEMA CHHETRI
Nepal National Teacher’s Association (NNTA)
Kumaripati, Lalitpur, P.O. Box No.107,        Nepal
Tel. :00977-1-5527581, Fax:00977-1-5538418
E-mail: nnta@hons.com.np

Ms. INDRA SAPKOTA
Nepal Teachers’ Association (NTA)
Dhumbarahi Mandikhatar Road,
Kathmandu, P. O. Box No. 12302,
Tel : 00977-1-4375298 (4375298)
Fax : 00977-1-4375299

 

Sri Lanka

Ms K.N SHAFIE MARIKAR
All Ceylon Union of Teachers (Government), (ACUT)
Canada House, 40 Centre Road,
Colombo 15, Sri Lanka
Tel  :  00-94-11-52-92-56
E-mail : einlproj@itmin.com

Ms E. J.  MAHENDRA
TEL NO :0094112732522
Mobile No:0094-0777737386
Email:mahenjeya 47 @yahoo.com 
Ceylon Tamil Teachers’ Union (CTTU)
54/9, Sea View Road ,
Trincomalee,
Sri Lanka



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  • QUICK FACTS
  • Womens movement in Srilanka is an independent history
  • Nepali context, the women’s movement dates back to the struggle against British imperialism starting with the battle of Nalapani in 1814.

  • In 1973, a group of young women called ‘Women for Women’
  • The first Adarsha Mahila Samaj (Ideal Women’ s Society) was formed with the objective of raising social and political consciousness among Nepali women

  • Women Voluntary Service
  • The Women Voluntary Service (WVS) was the first attempt to organize women and was followed by the formation of Pakistan Women’s National Guard (PWNG) and Pakistan Women Navel Reserve (PWNR) in 1949.