In the case of the Devadasi community, the fate of the girl child is determined at an age when she is powerless to alter the decisions being made about her life. The right to life continues to be denied to girl children in many areas through the practice of female infanticide. The dowry system deeply rooted in the culture and customs of most communities in India is a cause of harassment for most women. This has led to a situation where the girl child is treated as a guest in her own home. The union has addressed this issue mainly through training to bring about attitudinal change towards improving the status of the girl child.
Members are sensitised foremost on the equality in treatment of their own male and female children.
Area specific vocational training for adolescent girls run by the Union, equip them with skills that are economically productive. The children are employed under inhuman working conditions, often bonded to the employer for an advance of loan especially in the cases of beedi rollers, agarbathy workers and silk weavers. Women of the Union in each area, have tried to find workable solutions to tackle this problem without jeopardising the survival of the families They have strived to relieve the children from bonded contract labour by extending credit to redeem the children from their employers. Provision of production credit to the poor women has strengthened adult employment there by removing hunger and starvation. This has eased the pressure on children to earn for their families.