CHANAN is implemented an innovative project “Gender Sensitization through Theater’’ from June 2006 to 2012 in peri-urban and rural areas of Punjab Provence of Pakistan which would focus on improvement in status of women and girls, highlighting & documenting their problems and will involve a number of community based interventions aimed at empowering them by mobilizing family, community and line organizations’ for their support.

Women in Pakistan continue to suffer in the face of oppressive patriarchal structures, strict traditional norms, and stifling socio-cultural customs and traditions. Women face inequality of opportunity and inequality in awareness of and access to options, which is reflected in a lower status than men. Men control all aspects of women’s lives; domestic, reproductive, socio-cultural and legal etc. In terms of gender break ups, Pakistani females are much more deprived than their male counterparts, particularly in rural and least developed areas.

In view of the above pathetic situation, CHANAN has implemented an innovative project “Gender Sensitization through Theater’’ in peri-urban and rural areas Punjab Provence of Pakistan which would focus on improvement in status of women and girls, highlighting & documenting their problems and will involve a number of community based interventions aimed at empowering them by mobilizing family, community and line organizations’ for their support.