Women have been dreaming of a gender just, crime free, female respecting society since decades now. Yet disquieting reality is staring at us in the face. Women related crimes are gaining so much of prominence that countless initiatives of government and NGOs are falling short to culminate the menace. DJJS Karkardooma, as another epoch to recently launched Tu Hai Shakti campaign against sex selective abortions, is sprightly conducting workshops and setting up awareness counters to disperse the message to value girl child, realize importance of women and tag spiritual enlightenment as the connecting link to yield holistic empowerment and social transformation. The spirited volunteers are working to the hilt to attain the prescribed objective of campaign, i.e. elimination of female feticide. The capital city New Delhi, recently renamed as crime city, is calling for such foremost attention at this alarming situation to avoid the irrecoverable loss, society may have to witness.
27th August:
An awareness workshop with participation of about 70 ladies was conducted at DJJS Karkardooma ashram to create value for girl child and emphasize on their education and healthy living, apart from obvious survival. The workshop witnessed the following:
- Motivating commentary that created the aura of empowerment around
- Screening of self-explanatory videos as illustrations of various forms of crime emerging
- Educative presentation on causes and consequences of sex selective abortions, bringing in light the misinterpreted facts about girl child that contribute to the crime
- A beauteous dance performance displaying women potential
- A skit to showcase brutal abandoning of female foetuses by society, no more secretly
24th September:
A sensitizing program to discuss women empowerment in holistic sense was organized with about 60 women at Karkardooma Ashram. The program highlights were as follows:
- Triggering commentary that infused the sensitivity of issue in the air
- A video exhibiting the possible wonders a girl can do, if given opportunity was screened
- A presentation supported by a lecture to disseminate the problem of sex selective abortions and how it is adversely impacting both the genders
- Display of grief of an unborn fetus by means of a dance performance
- Encouraging skit to portray unexplored and underutilised strengths of women
A gender based activity to gauge opinions of participants on the issue’s criticality
