Sayodhya

Sayodhya NGO helps rehabilitate destitute mentally ill women into the society. Operating from a GHMC community centre, Sayidhya houses 20-25 women, abandoned by their families/ or are found disoriented on the roadside by the police. They work with the police to get these women treated in the government hospital, and help them reunite with their families. For several of those who are abandoned, Sayodhya helps them become self-dependent through training and  education, for sustaining a dignified life.

RV Diya’s teams met women who completed their education post their treatment, and moved out of Sayodhya. They are earning 15-25k per month, and living a life of dignity. In addition to life skills for such women, these women also work with Sayidhya to make cloth/jute bags, earning about 10-20 rupees per bag. Further, they conduct workshops in govt schools and women organisations to make and sell reusable sanitary napkins, which in turn creates a sustainable employment for these women.

SAYODHYA was started in 2010 by a group of women employees at Dr. Reddy’s Foundation. Sayodhya seeks to eradicate gender discrimination and gender-based violence prevalent in the society through training and counselling to the youth.

In collaboration with the Telangana Legal Services Authority, Sayodhya started family legal counselling centres in 10 communities and has trained over 50 community-based counsellors.

The following is the list of other initiatives and projects run by Sayodhaya:

My Abhyasa Centres Project: 10 centres across the slums of Amberpet, Hyderabad are being run to bridge the learning gap among slum children through daily 2-hour tuitions. Tutors are young women from the same slum, doing intermediate, graduation, or post-graduation, identified for the noble purpose and trained to deliver the tuition.

Free Family Counselling Project: Free family counselling centres are established by training active women from SHGs to become Counsellors to provide meaningful mediation in case of family disputes.

Make your Own Pad (Menstrual Hygiene Management Training Project): Under this project, Sayodhya achieves two goals: ensuring good menstrual hygiene practices among young girls and protecting the environment. They hold workshops to train girls from Government schools on how to make biodegradable & reusable sanitary napkins on their own.

Rehabilitation Centre at Institute of Mental Health (IMH), Erragadda, Hyderabad: Since 2020, Sayodhya has been running a Rehabilitation Centre in the closed women’s ward of IMH, Erragadda. They focus on reintegrating women who have recovered from mental illness but have been abandoned by their families back into the society through basic hygiene training, etiquette training, life skills, literacy, numeracy, skill development, nutrition support, etc. So far, 83 women have been reintegrated in this manner.

NIPUNA Skill Training: In order to provide resilient livelihoods to vulnerable women, Sayodhya has trained 20 women in garment-making. The women are now earning well by running a self-sustaining enterprise.

• *RV DIYA CHARITABLE TRUST* has provided Sayodhya with 2 jute machines for the jute bag making unit which will in turn provide livelihood to these women and also provided them with cotton material worth INR 26250. 
• RV Diya Trust provides monthly groceries of up to INR 12,000.