Vision

A smile on every lip, a twinkle in every eye.​

Mission

SWAN is to:
a) Recognise, empower, and celebrate single women in all their diversity.
b) Promote the rights, dignity, and self–reliance of single women.
c) Address limiting perceptions and hostile behaviour towards single women.

2030 Goals

  • Enable 500,000 single women to access identity documentation, entitlements, and social protection.
  • Train and support 50,000 single women as micro–entrepreneurs.
  • Strengthen 5,000 solidarity collectives of single women across Tamil Nadu.
  • Ensure 50% reduction in reported cases of exclusion, harassment, or violence against single women in target districts (but increase in the number of recorded cases).
  • Establish policy frameworks recognising single women as an official category in Tamil Nadu.

A smile on every lip, a twinkle in every eye.​

SWAN is to:
a) Recognise, empower, and celebrate single women in all their diversity.
b) Promote rights, dignity, and self–reliance of single women.
c) Confront social attitudes of neglect, pity, and suspicion faced by single women.
d) Restore their smiles and self–respect, ensuring confidence in life.

  • Enable 500,000 single women to access identity documentation, entitlements, and social protection.
  • Strengthen 5,000 solidarity collectives of single women across Tamil Nadu.
  • Train and support 50,000 single women as micro–entrepreneurs.
  • Ensure 50% reduction in reported cases of exclusion, harassment, or violence against single women in target districts (but increase in the number of recorded cases).
  • Establish policy frameworks recognising single women as an official category in Tamil Nadu.