The NOSKK project aims to empower women working as unorganised labourers and as household workforce and establish socio-economic equity.

The project will build capacities and empower Muslim women and socially excluded communities, ensuring that they know their rights and can access their entitlements, especially in regards to health, education and livelihoods.

The NOSKK project is supported by PACS for four years and will work in 451 villages in the Uttar Dinjapur, Dakshin Dinjapur and Murshidabad districts of West Bengal.

NOSKK aims

• Non-discriminatory access to work under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gaurantee Act (MGNREGA) particularly for women.

• Improved access to skill building trainings and opportunities for marginalised women.

• Non-discriminatory health services under Janani Suraksha Yojna (JSY) to the eligible women.

• Better and non discriminatory education for children belonging to socially excluded groups, especially girls.

About NOSKK

Nari-o-Sishu Kalyan Kendra (NOSKK), a women-headed organisation, was registered in 1979 in the backdrop of the voluntary work provided by different women's groups.

The name of the organisation means 'women and child welfare centre' in the regional language of the state, Bengali. The organisation works with extremely marginalised people and helps to make them self-reliant.

NOSKK also works with Muslim communities; socially excluded women and children from scheduled castes (SC;, scheduled tribes (ST); other backward classes (OBCs); migrating women zari workers; and child labours. It aims to lead them towards a productive and dignified life in a sustainable society. 
 

Find out more:

• PACS work in West Bengal

• PACS work on sustainable livelihoods

• PACS work on right to basic services

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