By Khushboo Mishra | Project Leader
‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world’- Nelson Mandela
Open Mic Session by Students and Professors from the New York University
Place: Gandhi Smriti
Participants: Women and Girls from Perna and Sapera communities
Rekha (name changed), a woman from Perna caste community was constantly examining the visiting group of students from the New York University at Gandhi Smriti in New Delhi. Later, she told us ‘I want my daughter to become like them. They are educated, beautiful and independent’. Rekha is a 35 year old woman trapped into the system of prostitution. Being the breadwinner for the family of six people, Rekha have no other option but to continue to sell her body every night to sustain herself and her family members, including husband and four children.
Open Mic Session by Ms. Maria Beatriz, Head of Gender, World Bank and her colleague Sonali Andrea Robert David
Place: MCD Primary School
Participants: Young girls from the school
Open mic sessions provides platform to young girls from our adopted school in Najafgarh to express their opinion. The girls are made quiet if they ever try to express their feelings or desires in their homes and in the communities. Here is where the regular open mic sessions in schools help them. They are free to speak what they want to, where nobody will stop them . When Ms Maria and Ms Sonali visited to meet these young girls at the school, they shared dreams of being a lawyer, doctor, dance teacher, singer and more.
Open Mic Session with the Students and Professors group from the Rutgers University
Place: Community, Dharampura
Participants: Women, young girls and boys
It is always the community members who open the gates of their homes for the workshops in the community. For this open mic session, a whole terrace was given to us where everyone could sit in a circle and discuss. The students and professors from the Rutgers University were briefed about the ten asset approach for the field intervention programmes in Delhi, Bihar and Kolkata by Apne Aap. It is encouraging to see how the women speak confidently on the open mic platforms, sharing the challenges and victories of their life and the dreams that they see for their children.
Creativity Enhancement Workshop
Place: MCD Primary School
Participants: Young girls from the school
Mr Shikhant Sablania, an artist, believes that we should not try to impose our thoughts and beliefs on to the children, let them explore and find their own way. Mr Shikhant taught the young girls how easy it is to use any object around us and just draw or create something. The girls at the Primary school learnt to draw using CDs, floppy disk, hammer, bottle cap etc in the workshop.
Livelihood Opportunities in collaboration with Youth for Peace International Group
Place: Community, Dharampura
Participants: Women in the community
Since the women and girls are not allowed to go outside from the community, Apne Aap tries hard to bring the livelihood linkages in the community to the women from the three caste communities so they could make a dignified living within the their respective homes. This time we had Youth for Peace International group who are ready to bring more options to the women in the community in order to give better life.
By Khushboo Mishra | Project Leader
By Khushboo Mishra | Project Leader
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