- Yearbooks
Year Book 2017-18
This yearbook records the stories of Azad trainees who have successfully attained their permanent license, an essential step to becoming a professional driver. In the year 2017-18, a total of 303 Women on Wheel trainees across Azad’s six training centres successfully obtained their permanent driving licence.
A professional Feminist organisation working with urban resource poor women, Azad Foundation’s objective is to enable them to become empowered professional chauffeurs who can take charge of their own lives as well as create safe transport solutions for other women. The focus is primarily on nontraditional livelihoods with dignity for women. With its inception in New Delhi in 2008, Azad Foundation has over the last 10 years expanded its operations to Jaipur and Kolkata. It also works in collaboration with partner NGOs in Indore, Ahmedabad and Bangalore.
Women on Wheels (WoW) is the flagship program of Azad. Through a transformative capacity building process, WoW enables women to engage in a non-traditional livelihood, namely professional driving, thereby, facilitating women marginalized in the society to move from the margins to the mainstream economy creating wealth and value for all. Through this process, Azad foundation aims to alter public perceptions about women’s participation in the booming public transportation sector and the role and status of women in society.
This yearbook records the stories of Azad trainees who have successfully attained their permanent license, an essential step to becoming a professional driver. In the year 2017-18, a total of 303 Women on Wheel trainees across Azad’s six training centres successfully obtained their permanent driving licence. The yearbook is an endeavour to document and provide an insight into each of these trainees’ lives and struggles. Azad hopes that each of these phenomenal women will in the future become an inspiration for their communities and other women, urging them to carve out their own spaces.
