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Sukanya Welfare Foundation · Gaya, Bihar

A Sukanya in every home

A campaign for the marriage, education, health and dignity of daughters. Against child marriage, female foeticide and dowry, village by village.

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Foundation members speaking at a meeting of village women seated on a mat Young women holding gifts on International Women's Day Sukanya members planting a sapling during the environment drive

About us

Whether it is a daughter's marriage, her education or abuse she faces, the foundation tries to help her in every way it can.

Sukanya Welfare Foundation is a non-profit organisation based in Manpur, Gaya (Bihar). Since 2020 it has worked to make women self-reliant, educated and strong.

It protects unmarried girls from domestic violence, helps them at the time of their marriage, and brings doctors' advice to women through its medical awareness van.

  • Founded 2020
  • Head office: Manpur, Gaya
  • Branch office: Hisua, Nawada
  • Non-profit

Our pledge

Uproot these practices for good

As long as daughters are kept weak and uneducated, neither our state nor our country can develop. Daughters are a pillar of every home and of society.

  • Child marriageNo marriage before the legal age
  • FoeticideEvery daughter has the right to be born
  • DowryAgainst forced dowry demands
  • AbuseProtection from domestic violence and harassment

Our work

At the wedding, and after it

The foundation's members work on the ground, going village to village to meet daughters and women.

  • Village girls training at a sewing machine
    Self-reliance

    Sukanya sewing centre

    A free sewing centre where village girls learn stitching and embroidery and become self-reliant, including one in Hisua (Nawada).

  • Wedding support

    Wedding gifts

    When a daughter of a poor family marries, members visit her home with vidai gifts for the new household, to push back against dowry and domestic abuse.

  • An awareness meeting with village women in the shade of a tree
    Public awareness

    Village awareness drives

    Talking with people about child marriage, foeticide, dowry and other harmful customs, and regular meetings with women's groups in each village.

  • Health

    Sukanya health camps

    Health camps in villages, health lessons for schoolgirls, free sanitary pads, and doctors' advice from the medical awareness van.

  • Members planting a sapling beside a banner that reads ‘save the environment, plant trees together’
    Environment

    Planting trees together

    Tree-planting drives under the pledge “save the environment, plant trees together”.

  • Education

    Free education

    “Teach the children, and society grows.” Support for the schooling of children in need, above all girls.

Group marriage

Sukanya stands with every daughter at her wedding

Across Bihar, at block level, the foundation helps unmarried girls at the time of their marriage and organises group weddings. Use the buttons below to register or check the status of a registration (forms in Hindi).

New registration Registration status Join the Sukanya family Application status

For help, call 0631-2220024.

Foundation members handing wedding gifts to a bride's family
Founder Mr. Sanoj Kumar at his office desk

Founder's message

Let us join hands and stand by one another to make this campaign shine.

Sukanya Welfare Foundation runs a campaign to stop child marriage, female foeticide and dowry and to promote women's empowerment, and we need all of you with us. Together let us uproot these practices, so that the daughters of our country can rise to the greatest heights and fly like free birds.

Then our daughters will say with pride: we are the daughters of India.

Mr. Sanoj KumarDirector and Founder

Director and CMD: Mr. Brajesh Kumar

Moments

The Sukanya family

  • Group photo of the Sukanya family holding certificates in front of the stage
    Second anniversary gathering, 2022
  • Foundation members receiving a memento from a commandant
    Honoured with a memento by Commandant Lokesh Kumar Singh, 2022
  • Directors honouring a guest wearing a marigold garland
    Honouring guests at the anniversary celebration
  • Members and children standing by the tricolour outside the office
    Flag hoisting on Independence Day
  • Young volunteers holding certificates in front of the environment drive banner
    Volunteers of the environment drive

Contact

Talk to us

Join the Sukanya family

To keep its pledges, the foundation looks for the support and guidance of government, social workers and every parent blessed with a daughter. Become a member, volunteer or donate.

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