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Women Empowerment

Skill with a purpose

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Our Rural women were taught to weave their dreams in the form of designer bags. Rashmi Shah designer from Mumbai trained the women to use leftover cloth materials from her boutique to make colorful bags. These bags would be used by her to give away to her clients. This gave impetus to ‘Ban the Plastic campaign’. Women also learnt to make creative use of waste, value resources and fill their pockets with some hard earned money.

 

 

Our meditator Rashmi Shah is a Designer in Mumbai, arranged the bag making workshop for Rural women.

Naturopathy beauty training

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     ‘There is no force equal than a woman determined to rise.’

 

 

      We helped determined rural women rise in their own expectations by getting together with INO (International Naturopathy organization). Equipping them with skills in beauty and Naturopathy, they were taught full body massage and parts of body massage. A new dimension added was to improve upon the inner talk while doing all these naturopathic treatments on people.

Renuka along with Pooja from INO conducted the session at our Katarkhadak SSY Kendra on 8th April, 2018.

Groom and Grow!

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‘ An empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and  beautiful beyond description.’

 

       Empowering rural girls with skills for financial independence has always been our motto. As part of this initiative, we arranged for a hair styling workshop for rural girls. They were taught different hair styles and ways to adorn hair with colorful beads, pins, etc.

 

      Learning to groom themselves and the need to carry them well was a byproduct of the workshop.

 

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Renuka took the initiative to train the rural girls in hair styling. We arranged for the place and decorative material. 

International Women’s day with Padman

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On the eve of Women’s day, we let media take charge and do what it does best- be a force of positive change. 130 women from Katarkhadak village celebrated womanhood by gathering  for a special screening of the movie Padman, specially arranged for them. The initiative aimed at equipping women with necessary knowledge and empower them to be leaders in their own right and catalyse development. The movie came as an eye- opener in the area of menstrual hygiene for most rural women. The coming together of women helped even the most reticent ones to speak their hearts out. The beneficiaries promised us that they would put their health at the top of their  priority list henceforth. They  are now willing to visit the clinic meant for them when needed. To add to the celebrations,  we distributed tiffin boxes to them and  enjoyed a meal together at the SSY Ananad Kendra. The Director of the movie, R. Balki lauded our initiative with-” Thank you so much for taking this film to the areas where it has to be seen.” A small baby step to help women speak up, speak for and speak out……

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The New born SSY Ananda Kendra hall lent itself for the screening of the movie. Tiffin boxes sponsored by our meditator Gopalji added a special touch to the day. 

Date: 8 March 2018.

Venue: Ananda Kendra.

Coordinators: Rural team.

Participants: all the village ladies of Katharkhadak.

Material used: Padmaan movie, projection, Mike system.

 

Gratitude to: Pujya Guruji ,Manoj ji and whole Rural development team!

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Tailoring class

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We weaved a little love and confidence into the lives of our village women folk by introducing tailoring classes. These enthusiastic bands of women from Katarkhadak village have taken charge of saving environment with their humble efforts. They are empowered with the skill to stitch cloth bags in bulk which will then be distributed among the villagers. It’s an attempt to help villagers give up the use of plastic bags. We are in gratitude to the village women for giving us an opportunity to equip them with the necessary skill, the machines, cloth, thread and loads of inspiration. Soon this will add a smile to their pockets too!

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Provided a platform to learn skills and get into entrepreneurship mode. We are in continuous process to empower the women.

Mehendi

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This time we used a shade of red to spread smiles. Women at Katarakhadak village have been receiving training in applying mehendi. To give a festive cultural tinge to the Upanaynum and Raksha Bandhan ceremonies, 9 village girls were invited to apply mehendi on the hands of Gurukulam girl students, teachers and parents. Our small endeavor to colour the lives of the village women with hues of happiness.

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This skill was imparted to help village girls make some earnings. The creativity involved has boosted their self-esteem.

Computer

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We organized a summer camp of computer training, especially for the teenager girls from Katarkhadak village. We conducted the computer class every day for 45 days. It was highly satisfying to see the excitement and zeal to learn in these girls.They would quickly finish their daily chores and come every afternoon for two hours to learn computers.

Date: Summer 2017

Venue: Katarkhadak

Teacher/Trainer: Rafik and Alok

Coordinators: Amol

Participants: 10

Material used: Computer

Gratitude to: PujyaGuruji , Manojji and whole Rural development team!

Gratitude session for women

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As an initiative to help everyone experience abundance in all areas of their lives, we regularly conduct the ‘Magic of Gratitude’ workshop. And this time, for the above workshop, we invited women from adjoining villages viz. Aandhale, Katarkhadak and Khamboli tour Katarkhadak Aashram. The workshop aimed at raising awareness – about focusing on gratitude for everything, everyone and every situation. Andthus magically reversing scarcity into abundance.

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To help the participants relate better, we cited examples from their daily lives and in return, we got an earnest promise and commitment by them to live in this beautiful energy of Gratitude 24 x 7.

Date: 18 Apr 17

Venue: Dyaneshwar Bhoomi

Teacher/Trainer: Narendra, Bindu and Dipesh

Coordinators: Rural team

Participants: 80 ladies

Material used: PPT, Gratitude journals.

Gratitude to: PujyaGuruji , Manojji and whole Rural development team!

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Aanganwadi teachers isp

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Character -building is always a work in progress! But it begins right from infancy. Handling children skillfully right from childhood calls for a lot of awareness.  ISP –Infant SSY program is an experiential workshop that guides parents and teachers to bring about overall balanced development of a child covering their Physical, Mental, Social, Emotional and Spiritual faculties. 

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Earlier Aanganwadi teachers experienced stress and put in efforts without expected results as they lacked awareness. Their raw approach and corporal punishment failed to get them desired results.

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Rishi SamskruthiVidhya Kendra created awareness of this program and enrolled parents and teachers of the aanganwadi to experience ease while dealing with children. We conducted training and also provided necessary skills in the area of parenting and teaching. Currently we have trained 38 aanganwadi teachers which directly impacts 16000 children below 6 years. The program continues to touch lives of children, parents and teachers making learning, teaching and parenting a joyful experience.

Haldi Kum kum

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Celebration is at the heart of all festivities in India. Haldi Kum kum is one such festival that has celebration at its core.It is a festival of the women, for the women, by the women. The village women and grown up girls of the village came together to celebrate ceremoniously. The traditional haldi and kumkum (Vermillion) was dabbed on the forehead – a mark of seeing Godliness in all.

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Rishi Samskruthi Vidya Kendra invited all the women of the village at both Katarkhadak and Aandhale village at the village temples. The traditional celebrations, gifts and fun along with the vision of women empowerment set the mood for festivities. Village women were made aware of the activities conducted under the banner of Women empowerment.

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