0112 weeks
Self-defense
Certified instructors teach escape, strike and de-escalation drills built for real streets, real crowds, real buses.
Self-defense · Life skills · Awareness
No girl
should learn
to be afraid
first.
Ek Zraa Si Koshish trains girls and women to defend themselves, speak for themselves, and change what their communities accept as normal.
2016
Founded in one school gym. Now in 14 cities.
18,400girls trained
14cities reached
96certified trainers
312school partnerships
41trainees now trainers
84%report daily confidence shift
Three programs.
One outcome.
All programs →028 modules
Life skills
Negotiation, money, digital safety, legal rights. What happens after the mat matters as much as what happens on it.
03Rolling
Awareness
Public demos, street theatre and school assemblies that move the conversation from her caution to their behaviour.
"I didn’t set out to build an organisation. I set out to teach one girl what I knew — the rest followed."
We started in 2016 with one instructor and one cohort, in a school gym that let us use the floor after hours. I had no plan to be in fourteen cities. I had a plan to get through that first batch of twenty girls and see if what we taught actually changed anything once they walked back out onto the street.
It did. And the girls who changed the most became the ones teaching the next batch — 41 of our 96 trainers came up through our own programs first. That, more than any number on this page, is why we keep going.
— Founder & Executive Director, Ek Zraa Si Koshish
Partners, press & compliance80G · 12A · FCRA registered
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Four seconds
costs ₹900.
That is one girl, twelve hours of training, certified instructor, full kit. 84 paise of every rupee goes to the mat. Annual reports and audited statements are public.
Where the money goes →₹900Trains one girl for a full twelve-week cohort₹4,500Equips a school with mats, pads and a starter kit₹18,000Certifies one new trainer in a new city
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Two hours a week.
Twenty girls a month.
We train volunteers as assistant coaches, workshop facilitators and city coordinators. No martial arts background required — we certify you in six weeks.