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17 - Year old Antara Martins with her newly published debut poetry collection

 
 

YASA Co-CEO Antara Martins partners with Pratham UK to launch her debut poetry collection, donating 100% of proceeds for women’s education in India.

A passionate advocate for education and gender equality, Antara, is donating all proceeds from the book to Pratham’s Second Chance Programme, which is designed for women and girls who, due to various circumstances, have had to discontinue their education. The programme offers them the opportunity to resume their studies and complete their high school diploma as well as provides academic tutoring, life skills training, and emotional support. All of which enables learners to tackle the hurdles that once prevented them from achieving their educational goals. 

 
 
 
 

Our Mission:

Empower.

We want to help foster a society in which equitability of outcomes between men and women is the norm, not a goal.

 
 
 
 

Our Mission

YASA’s (Youth Against Sexual Assault) goal is to kick off a nationwide campaign to raise awareness regarding the issues surrounding gender violence and sexual assault. Currently, an Indian woman is raped every 22 minutes, and of these women, a third are below the age of 18. In order to accomplish these aims, YASA plans to provide fact-based information as well as practical guidance from professionals to teenagers, parents, teachers, and village communities at large.

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Our Partners

Our Partners have been key in helping us expand our reach across people and geographies! We have teamed up with other non-profits, publishing companies, and even local bookstores to help spread and deliver our message.

 

Our Impact

YASA has been able to generate awareness through a few main avenues. Our videos featuring youth advocates have generated over 80,000 views on youtube and other sources. We have partnered with Breakthrough U.S., a larger non-profit with a much wider reach to enact change both in the United States and India. The YASA platform has also continued to be a forum for interaction and discussion on all topics relating to gender equality and violence.

 

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Thousand Dollars Raised

Through the Sale of Govind Ramakrishnan’s, Poetry Book, YASA has been able to raise large sums of money to be donated to our driving cause.

 

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Years Disseminating Information

Since its inception, YASA has continued to be used as a platform to created widespread awareness around issues relating to gender violence and equality.

 
 

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Thousand People Impacted

Through our Social Media Campaign, we have been able to reach over 80,000 individuals through our videos.

 
 

Our Programs

Youth Against Sexual Assault aims to actively work with youth to change stereotypical attitudes that prevail in our society about gender equality and gender violence.

 

Spread Awareness

Using the YASA platform, we will disseminate information to create awareness on the importance of mutual respect for both sexes.

Communication

We will communicate through our social media movement, creating visual short form content of youth perspectives all around the world to heal this generation’s understanding of feminism

Educate

We will strive to teach positive and acceptable social modes of behavior through peer group learning sessions. YASA will also help in the formation of teenager volunteer groups who will advocate the prevention of sexual assault to their peers.

Protect

Finally, we hope to teach girls to recognize and avoid risky situations and to equip them with simple techniques of self-defense.

 
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June 2022

"Gender inequality fuels the systems that silence survivors and perpetuate violence. At YASA, we are committed to dismantling these systems, challenging the stereotypes and biases that uphold rape culture, and fighting for a world where justice isn’t dependent on gender. Every individual deserves to live free from fear, and our mission is to ensure that no one is denied justice because of who they are."

Antara Martins, Founder

 

 
 

Get Involved

We are actively looking for volunteers and grassroots advocates to help us in our modest goals of slow, but incremental societal change. Gender inequality and violence cannot be solved in the span of a year, a generation, or even two generations, but through constant support for our allies, mindfulness, and awareness, we can slowly make a dent.

 

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Please reach out to us and the team with any feedback or comments about YASA, our goals, and how to improve what we are doing.