Creating support and counselling of about 3500 cases on violence against women. (Dowry, divorce, sexual harassment, child rape and domestic violence).

Self Respect is the First Step of Women’s Liberation.

Advocacy activities

Our impact in numbers

Women

School going girls

2,300

12,320

Minority Women

4,200

History of Steps

3STEPS – started by Sharifa in 1987 - works on a range of issues: it functions as a short stay space for battered women; it takes up issues of violence against women on an almost daily basis and works with both the local community and police to address individual petitions as well as those involving families and kin groups; it works on women's livelihood issues, land and employment rights.

Projects we are focusing on

Self-Defense and Safety Workshops

Vocational skills using Technology and Digital Training

Health and Wellness Programs

Media

Youtube Videos

Blogs

STEPS founder Sharifa Khanam on how to emancipate women - THE HINDU

THE founder of STEPS Women's Development Organisation, which has won a number of awards for social work.

Great women of india #6: Daud sharifa khanam

STEPS, an NGO which takes care of women. She has also set up the first all-woman jamaat in 15 of the 31 districts in Tamil Nadu. - Indian Today

Daud Sharifa Khanam – a village woman from the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu – appears unpretentious. But her intentions are audacious, revolutionary and disarmingly simple.

Taking on patriarchy In Tamil Nadu, there are Muslim women activists fighting on all fronts for gender justice.

Muslim women's rights activist Sharifa Khanam inaugurating the get-together of Forum for Muslim Women's Gender Justice in Kozhikode

Daud Sharifa Khanam is credited with forming the world's first all-women jamaat, a body of elders who decide on domestic disputes and religious matters.

The Lady of “Women’s Jamaat”

Founder of STEPS Sharifa Khanum says a Muslim woman does not enjoy any Islamic rights, or any constitutional rights in India, which is why they had to come up with the jamaat (women's mosque).

Daud Sharifa Khanum fights for Muslim women's rights

Teaching As A Feminist Always Means Learning As A Feminist

The Lady of “Women’s Jamaat” September 6, 2009 By Shafee Ahmed Ko,

Today Woman Summit 2017: Are women, children of a lesser god?

On the wings of a prayer

Asra Nomani, Daud Sharifa, and the Women's Mosque

A space of their own for women in Tamil Nadu

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Islamic feminism and Muslim women's rights activism in India

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