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Towards Women Empowerment

Women Empowerment, dignity and protecting women from violence and discrimination is the need of the hour. Hence, we have initiated this blog for sensitizing several issues regarding women empowerment.  The aim behind the said blog is to accomplish the Women Education, Women Empowerment, Gender Equality and Justice.

Objectives:

“Empowered women for her dignity and protecting her from violence and discrimination”

The group will work with the aim to accomplish:

1.      Women Education

2.      Women Empowerment

3.      Gender Equality and

4.      Justice

Characteristics:

1.      Maximum Participation of Women: Activities by the women, for the women and of the women.

2.      Women’s equal participation in the

·         decision-making process,

·         policy-making,

·         planning and

·         administration.

etc. will be emphasized.

3.      Giving Control to Women: Using the participation of women in the decision-making process to achieve balance of control between men and women over the factors of production, without dominance.

4.      Conscious Rising: Understanding of the difference between sex roles and gender roles and the belief that gender relations and the gender division of labor should be fair and agreeable to both sides, and not based on the domination.

5.      Thorough Access:

Women’s access to

·         Production

·         labour,

·         credit,

·         training,

·         marketing facilities, and

·         publicly available services and benefits

etc. will be emphasized through the consortium.

6.      Women Welfare comes first: Whatever will be the action taken will result in the welfare of the Women.

7.      Protecting the women's rights: Right to vote; to work; to fair wages or equal pay; to enter into legal contracts; to have equal rights in family; to have reproductive rights etc. will be emphasized through the consortium.

Services: 

Following programmes will be undertaken (Operating Mode: Face to face and Virtual) and the same will be made available through Consortium:

1.      Awareness Programmes regarding women safety and empowerment:

·         BPA 110/112/117/135 : THE BOMBAY POLICE ACT, 1951:

(http://mahasecurity.gov.in/pdf/regulations/bombay_police_act_1951.pdf)

·         IPC 354/ 509: THE INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860

(https://indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/4219/1/THE-INDIAN-PENAL-CODE-1860.pdf)

2.      Training Programme regarding

·         Insecurity/ Under Confidence in Women

·         Awareness about Women Rights against Crime

·         Self Defense Training

3.      Orientation:

·         Understanding Patriarchy (a system of society or Government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it)

·         Lodging Complaints Online and Face to Face

·         Self Esteem/Respect

·         MOLESTATION

·         SEXUAL ASSAULT

·         VOYEURISM

·         EVE TEASING

·         ACID ATTACK

·         STALKING

·         CRUELTY BY HUSBAND

·         CYBER CRIME

·         DOWRY DEMAND/ DEATH

4.      Implementing Activities:

Exhibition, artistic presentation, wall papers/hangings, articles, and Competition on Women Empowerment too will be undertaken with a view to reach the masses. These programmes will be held Virtual/ Online and face to face.

We will appreciate your comments, suggestions etc. 

FRUITS OF MY TREE

FRUITS OF MY TREE

“Man is like unto a tree. If he be adorned with fruit, he hath been and will ever be worthy of praise

and commendation. Otherwise a fruitless tree is but fit for fire. The fruits of the human tree are

exquisite, highly desired, and dearly cherished. Among them are upright character, virtuous

deeds and a goodly utterance.”

(Taken from http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/TB/tb-35.html )

THE FRUITS OF MY TREE are:

• Tolerance
• Determination
• Positive attitude
• Timeliness
• Equilibrium
• Clarity
• Assertiveness
• Sensitivity
• Cooperation

THE BASICS OF MY LIFE are:  

• Live and let live others in happiness.
• Be the man of Character/ Rectitude of Conduct
• Be always industrious, happy and positive as to work is to worship the God.

Keeping with the fruits and the basics of the life we must we must learn to motivate people for the rectitude of conduct. So we must treat people with kindness,  we must give them responsibility and ask them to actively participate, we must be a good listener to them, and in all we must get to KNOW the people so as to strengthen their sense of belonging.

Cooperative Juggling

Cooperative Juggling

We played the ‘Cooperative Juggling’ game. The game was very easy to perform but the very game demanded absolute coordination and concentration from each member.

However, we do understand that through the unity of action and coordination it becomes easier to perform the so called difficult tasks. 

In our group we had 10 members and we played the game for 30 minutes while standing in a big circle. We considered the tennis balls as golden ones so that each member valued these balls and concentrated on them. This helped the members to improve their catching skills. But a good level of coordination with 100% of concentration was a must to play and appreciate the game.

Further, we observed that when the individuals worked together then they could achieve great challenges together. I played “builder of unity” being the mentor for this activity. As we have to had 100% of coordination I appealed each member to adjust with the situation and leave the ‘arrogance’ (ego, dominance) and ‘self-righteousness’ in us.

The qualities and attitudes such as ability to mix, accommodating nature is essential for the Unity.  Further, adjustment with others is a must for the unity.

Guard the Treasure

Guard the Treasure

It was novel experience for us to play the ‘Guard the Treasure’ game. The game underlines the principle of trust and being trustworthy.

We do agree that the “Trustworthiness is the supreme condition for the achievement of the prosperity of mankind”. It is prerequisite for the rectitude of the conduct.

As instructed, we get divided into two groups (A and B) having 6 members in each group. We used small piece of cloth as ‘treasure’. Members of group A stand in a circle and one member stands at the centre of the circle so as to guard his treasure. The members on the circle tried hard to snatch away this treasure. In this way, each group has given 10 minutes to play the game. The following is the score of the two groups:

Group A	Group B
02	03

Members from group B were the winners as they snatched the treasure 3 times in just 10 minutes.  In all 05 (2 +3) members had the chance to snatch the treasure. But remaining 7 (4 +3) members could not snatch the treasure. The members felt that they are trustworthy while guarding the treasure. But, when the treasure was snatched from them, they did not feel confidence and felt that they did breakage of faith of their team members.

In all, each member agrees that they need to watch their words and actions and thus remain trustworthy in the family, society. They need to be trustworthy while performing responsibilities and affairs. Further, these members agreed that they will not misuse/ abuse their power they understood the life is impossible without ‘trustworthiness’. And hence, “Trustworthiness is the supreme condition for the achievement of the prosperity of mankind”.

Adjective Game

It was real fun to play the ‘Adjective Game’ with the students. Through this game we all have tried to acknowledge the “Unity in Diversity” principle. Further, we tried to enhance unity among the group members by associating and remembering a good quality in each member as each member explained the good qualities in her/him by saying the adjective.

All the members (students) stand in a circle. I, personally initiated the game by telling good quality of me as ‘T’ for ‘Tenacious’ as an adjective to my  own name i.e. ‘Tejesh’. Then I explained that I need to have ‘T’ for ‘Talented’ i.e. a quality I wish to acquire. Then all the group members together repeated my name and the adjective.

Then the game moves to the other members standing next to me in a clockwise manner. Thus, each member repeated the same procedure and we could enhance unity among the group members by associating and remembering a good quality in each member.

All the members liked the game as it was based on active participation. It was not easy for all the members to find an adjective for their names, so I asked them to tell the adjectives in Marathi language and accordingly translated it in English.

All the members liked the association of good qualities to themselves and thus the game helped to create an environment of unity among my group members.

Sharing about 'Sharing the Paper' Game

It was nice ice breaker and a game to play with the team members.

What we have learnt is to appreciate the joy of sharing.

We have experienced that ‘larger the sharing the greater will be the happiness’.

We learnt to communicate, coordinate and cooperate with each other.

This has enabled us to maximizing the limited resources.

We do acknowledge that the same can be practiced in the family in order to make the life more exciting. This can bring harmony in the team.

The game played by: 
Asst. Prof. Tejesh Beldar
Dr. Minal Barve
Asst. Prof. Sarika Nikale

Envisioning the ‘Vision Game’

It was a nice experience to conduct the ‘Vision Game’ in two parts (with open and closed eyes) among the team members.  We, as a team do realize the power of mental visualization or mind’s eye in achieving things those appear to be away from our abilities.

Part 1 (with open eyes): We stood firmly and moved/stretched our hands as much as we could. Here, we were wide awake about our appearances only. We have not used all our capabilities to stretch the hands. We felt that we were conscious of our limitations only.

Part 2 (with closed eyes): We repeated the same steps of Part 1, stood firmly and moved/stretched our hands as much as we could. But, this time we have closed our eyes and were unaware about our appearances. And, hence we were free from shy / coyness in us. We could use all our capabilities and to our surprise we could go far away than the marking (spot) of part 1 while stretching our hands. This had happened owing to our power of visualization/ imagination.

We all abide by Helen Keller’s quote that “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision”

Such realization is really necessary in the present day ICT society. We, being the Nurturers of E-culture,  have to develop new aptitude, ability, skills etc. in order to preserve the value system based on the universal human values.

Part 1

Part 2