- Yearbooks
Year Book 2019-20
In 2019, the flagship program of Azad has had a strategic change in its brand name from Women on Wheels (WOW) to Women with Wheels (WWW). The Year Book chronicles the success stories of 315 Women with Wheels trainees who overcame struggles and achieved permanent driving licenses through Azad's six training centers in 2019-20.
A professional Feminist organisation working across social and religious divides, Azad Foundation’s objective is to enable urban resource-poor women 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 providing nontraditional livelihoods with dignity for women through attempting to break patriarchal boundaries and structures, so that the women can exercise control over their lives. Therefore, Azad’s flagship programme, Women with Wheels (WWW) takes the women through a holistic, transformative-capacity building process of providing technical, self-empowerment and self-development training, in order to enhance their awareness of rights and equip them to become self-sustaining professional chauffeurs.
In 2019, the flagship program of Azad has had a strategic change in its brand name from Women on Wheels (WOW) to Women with Wheels (WWW) as it was realised that WOW was already a patented name that was being used by another initiative. We have applied for a registration under the name WWW now. Azad Foundation currently operates through their offices in Delhi, Jaipur and Kolkata and through likeminded partners in Indore, Ahmedabad, Bhuvaneshwar and Lucknow. In 2019-20, Azad Foundation also expanded its Women with Wheels programme to the city of Chennai.
The Year Book records the various stories of Azad trainees who have successfully attained their permanent driving license through the Women with Wheels programme. The stories attempt to provide an insight into each of these trainees’ lives which is a blend of struggles and achievements. In the year 2019-20, a total of 315 Women with Wheels trainees across Azad’s six training centres successfully obtained their permanent license. However, the Year Book consists stories of 270 trainees’. Some of the missing stories being due to lack of consent and not being able to reach out to some due to the onset of COVID-19 and the lockdown following it. Azad hopes that each of these outstanding women will in the future become an inspiration for their communities and other women, urging them to take control of their lives, and thereby building an ecosystem of change.
