Education for Muslim girls: Darakht-E-Ilm (Tree of Knowledge)
Since our involvement with Muslim women we realise that one of the most important issues is to assist them in entering the mainstream. Education, followed by economic independence is the basic for rights assertion. Since 2001, Majlis has been involved with a community based educational programme
in the Muslim settlement in Jogeswari. The programme is structured on the principle of earner-learner, where older girls are involved with teaching the younger students and in the process are supported and persuaded to complete graduation and encouraged into skill development. Recently the students have been provided basic training in video and helped in documenting their lives in two short films.