Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust - Women's Empowerment Organizations

India is a country where women have always been respected and worshiped as goddesses. But with the influence of the invaders and foreign rulers, this respect diminished and today, even when goddesses are duly worshiped, the real women in the society are looked down upon. Their exploitation in the family and society is evident and the crime against women rate is at all-time high. Although people are getting more education than ever, but in this male chauvinistic society, the women are not able to get enough rights to survive fearlessly, let alone the equal rights. Especially in the rural scenario, they aren’t respected, they are not allowed to get education or vocational training and in the scarcity of money, they have to go out to others’ homes to do cleaning and washing, for which they are paid peanuts. And it doesn’t end here, being completely dependent on their husbands’ mercy, they are often at the receiving end of domestic violence.  There are many women's empowermen

India is an agrarian country with over 60 percent population belonging to the rural background. Coming from such a humble background rural people are mostly naïve and simple, which makes them more vulnerable to the injustices by the richer, more powerful people, who exploit them to their last limit. They look up to the governing authorities, but because of the red tape, they do not always get much help. To set them free from the shackles of their woes, it becomes imperative to empower them so that they can help themselves and each other. Especially in the backward states, the worst of which is Uttar Pradesh. RGCT understood this predicament, and started working for this cause with an aim to make the rural population, especially women, stronger and independent. The working method of this NGO is different from all other organisations that are working for rural welfare. Instead of providing direct help for a selected set of problems like education and sanitation etc., RGC

Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust, or RGCT is a non-governmental organisation working for the betterment of the women of the rural areas of India, especially Uttar Pradesh, providing means for sustainable income and empowering them for better living in the society. The aim of this charitable trust is not to just help them financially, but it is aimed towards the capacity building of these rural women, by providing means to them for efficiently earning for themselves and also contributing to the main stream economy by joining hands with the banks. The working of this chartable society is through organising the rural women into self-help groups at three hierarchical levels, empowering them with the power of unity to achieve the otherwise impossible or difficult tasks. The three levels for the same are the village level, block level and the district level. By getting organised in SHGs, the women are now able to solve their own problems themselves, and the strength that come

RGCT is the charitable trust set up By Mrs. Sonia Gandhi for realizing the dreams of all-inclusion of her husband, who was also the youngest prime minister of India, the most respected Mr. Rajiv Gandhi . It has been a well-known fact that he was an intelligent human being who genuinely cared about the people of his country. Being the prime minister at such an age was the way to bring youth to the politics to cause transformation in the country for good. One of his speeches reveal that he was well aware of the situations that the real citizens were facing and that there were great minds among politicians who really, dedicatedly wanted to solve this problem, but were not able to do so as they focussed upon making the management plans, not the systematic plans. When he finally made the plan to run things systematically at the grass root level, the transformation started to show. To carry on his ideals and realise his dreams, this trust was set up, especially for the socia