Breakthrough Trust

Breakthrough Trust is working to create a cultural shift and make discrimination and violence against girls and women unacceptable. It inspires people to fight for the rights of women and girls by catalyzing leadership in communities and building a larger movement to change deep-rooted cultural norms that perpetuate gender-based discrimination and violence. The focus has been on opening doors, breaking barriers, and starting honest conversations about gender, violence, and discrimination, with women, men, adolescents, youth, families, and communities as units, frontline health workers, government officials, influencers, etc.

Major Interventions:

Team Change Leaders: Social Change Actors including individuals, government bodies, corporations, and community institutions—drive gender equity by influencing change within and beyond their spheres. Breakthrough calls them Team Change! These leaders launch Facebook campaigns, engage communities, and support crowdfunding efforts. Through skill-building internships, the NGO empowers them to combat gender discrimination and violence in schools, colleges, workplaces, and communities. Youth programs enable critical analysis of gender stereotypes, while college initiatives promote student-led gender-sensitization campaigns to foster harassment-free spaces. Additionally, it trains teachers and empowers school management committees by sharing observations on the roles and responsibilities of its members in contributing to improving education.

The NGO collaborates with government bodies, partners, and communities to address domestic abuse, workplace gender equity, public harassment, gender-based violence, and early marriage thereby dismantling systemic oppression and exploitation. Breakthrough has been invited to key government meetings, participated in training programs to increase women's involvement in local planning, and hosted district-level convergence meetings to bring together government officials and women's helpline representatives. Discussions on child safety and gender-based discrimination are facilitated, addressing adolescents. Through these partnerships, Breakthrough has reached thousands of young people and women, building their capacity to address gender-based violence and create safer communities.

The NGO is involved in conducting various community mobilization events which include organizing Kishor-Kishori Melas thereby aiming to address gender-based discrimination, encourage higher education for girls, break taboos around menstruation, and create a supportive environment for young women.