Sanwari Women’s Power Club Organizes Health Awareness Camp at SKR Public School, Inderpuri.

Sanwari Women’s Power Club in line with its philosophy of women’s empowerment today organized a medical camp for the girls of SRK Public School in New Delhi’s Inderpuri. The camp held under the aegis of Sanwari had a renowned gynecologist specialist Dr Mrs Shiv Lata Gupta of Lok Clinic and Hospital, Janakpuri along with Miss Liza Bhansali a dietician, who stressed upon the importance of balanced diet plan. Girl students mostly in their teens consulted the doctors on their health issues.

Present on the occasion Mrs Seema Goel, the Founder and Chief Mentor of Sanwari Women’s Power Club said that she was happy to lead the mission of Women Empowerment. She said that this Noble Initiative of Health Camp was a tribute to womanhood from their side. She along with other members of Sanwari guided young girls from the school to lead a happy and a healthy life. Feeling for the cause Mrs Seema Goel said, “It is extremely important for women to take care of their health and what better could it be than to start caring for one’s health from the tender age.”

Sanwari Women’s Power  is a philanthropic association of women who have been working in the field of women empowerment for last 4 years. The club has organized many such health camps and have been actively participating in honouring each effort for the cause. Ecstatic Mrs Seema Goel laid the emphasis on the well being of women in the society said, “Today's women have even greater role to play in the progress of the country and hence they should not ignore their health under any circumstances.” 

More than 200 girls from the school got advice on various topics related to women’s health. According to Dr Mrs Shiv Lata Gupta, “women’s health is a touchy issue in many households. But, the matter is of extreme importance and should not be ignored as women in the society have a greater role to play.” Adding to the health concerns of women Miss Liza Bhansali, the dietician said, “With women moving out of homes and competing with men, their dietary needs are changing as well. Since women have to balance home as well as offices they need to be extra cautious of what they eat.”

The Medical Camp at SRK Public school was a very first of its kind and went on till afternoon. School authorities thanked the Sanwari members for their noble initiative and their outstanding contribution to the concept of women empowerment.

All the participants shared their positive feedback & expressed their eagerness to look forward for many such noble initiatives.

She Taxi -- Service for Women Travellers and Operated by Women Entrepreneurs

"She Taxi”, a service for women travellers and operated by women entrepreneurs, was launched in the Kerala capital.

The “She Taxi” is a 24×7 service that can be booked through mobile phones and online.

Women travelling alone or with families can dial the customer care centre which will provide them with a unique identification code and the vehicle number on their mobile phones.

Manju Warrier is the brand ambassador for ‘She Taxi’.

This is the first initiative of the Gender Park, an institution newly established under the state’s department of social justice to work towards gender equity.

Popular actress Manju Warrier, the brand ambassador of “She Taxi”, flagged off the service at a ceremony here.

What makes “She Taxi” such a wonderful project is that it is a means of livelihood for a set of women and a safe and secure mode of transport for another, the actress said.

She also urged more women entrepreneurs to come forward to operate the taxis.

The actress said it was a much-needed service for the ever-growing number of women employees in sectors such as IT, media, travel and hospitality who have to work and travel at odd hours.

The first five women drivers of the taxi fleet received the keys from Warrier.

Associates of the “She Taxi” project are Maruti Suzuki Ltd, Kerala State Women’s Development Corporation (KSWDC) which will provide financing support for the entrepreneurs and Technopark-based Rain Concert Technologies, which provides the much needed IT support.

Maruti Suzuki Ltd is supplying the taxis and providing training to the women drivers.

The “She Taxis” come with multiple security systems, which include a control room that tracks the taxis in real-time using GPS, personal emergency alert switches for drivers and passengers inside the car and a similar safety alert app is installed on the mobile phones of the women drivers.

Source : IANS 2013-11-19 21:56:13 

Sowing The Seeds Of Change – Sustainable Agriculture Driven By Women In West Bengal

Self-sufficient farming gives women in Alipurduar food, health and confidence! At a time when chemicals have virtually replaced nutrients in food, women in this tiny area of West Bengal are growing food in a natural way – a method that is not just organic but uses ways to combine nature’s cycles and elements, creating a complementary ensemble. This is a way in which plants, animals, insects and all the elements of nature come together in harmony and leave little waste. Read further to know how they achieve this.

Till a few decades ago, most people in India grew vegetables and fruits in their own gardens. Then something changed. We shifted from ‘farming for food’ to ‘farming for money’. The start of the ‘green revolution’ meant that production increased but so did the farmer’s dependency on chemicals, fertilizers and pesticides. This shift in farming – from lifestyle to livelihood – also resulted in women keeping away from most farming decisions even though they were involved in the various tasks of sowing, reaping, harvesting and filling up the granaries. They aren’t called ‘farmers’ and they don’t benefit from training on farming concepts and schemes. But some women in villages in Alipurduar, West Bengal have managed to change this for themselves.

Self-sufficient farming gives women in Alipurduar food, health and confidence!TB

 See more at: http://www.thebetterindia.com/8307/tbi-women-sowing-the-seeds-of-change-sustainable-agriculture-driven-by-women-in-west-bengal/

Platform for Women Empowerment | Women Empowerment in India

Economic benefits of women empowerment- Most women across the globe rely on the informal work sector for an income.
If women were empowered to do more and be more, the possibility for economic growth becomes apparent. Eliminating a significant part of a nation’s work force on the sole basis of gender can have detrimental effects on the economy of that nation. In addition, female participation in counsels, groups, and businesses is seen to increase efficiency. For a general idea on how an empowered women can impact a situation monetarily, a study found that of fortune 500 companies, “those with more women board directors had significantly higher financial returns, including 53 percent higher returns on equity, 24 percent higher returns on sales and 67 percent higher returns on invested capital (OECD, 2008).”  This study shows the impact women can have on the overall economic benefits of a company. If implemented on a global scale, the inclusion of women in the formal workforce (like a fortune 500 company) can increase the economic output of a nation.
Sociological empowerment often addresses members of groups that social discrimination processes have excluded from decision-making processes through - for example - discrimination based on disability, race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. Empowerment as a methodology is often associated with feminism: see consciousness-raising.
"Marginalized" refers to the overt or covert trends within societies whereby those perceived as lacking desirable traits or deviating from the group norms tend to be excluded by wider society and ostracized as undesirables.
Sometimes groups are marginalized by society at large, but governments are often unwitting or enthusiastic participants. This Act made it illegal to restrict access to schools and public places based on race. Equal opportunity laws which actively oppose such marginalization, allow increased empowerment to occur. They are also a symptom of minorities' and women's empowerment through lobbying.
Marginalized people who lack self-sufficiency become, at a minimum, dependent on charity, or welfare. They lose their self-confidence because they cannot be fully self-supporting. The opportunities denied them also deprive them of the pride of accomplishment which others, who have those opportunities, can develop for themselves. This in turn can lead to psychological, social and even mental health problems.
Empowerment is then the process of obtaining these basic opportunities for marginalized people, either directly by those people, or through the help of non-marginalized others who share their own access to these opportunities. It also includes actively thwarting attempts to deny those opportunities. Empowerment also includes encouraging, and developing the skills for, self-sufficiency, with a focus on eliminating the future need for charity or welfare in the individuals of the group. This process can be difficult to start and to implement effectively.
One empowerment strategy is to assist marginalized people to create their own nonprofit organization, using the rationale that only the marginalized people, themselves, can know what their own people need most, and that control of the organization by outsiders can actually help to further entrench marginalization. Charitable organizations lead from outside of the community, for example, can disempower the community by entrenching a dependence on charity or welfare. 
A nonprofit organization can target strategies that cause structural changes, reducing the need for ongoing dependence. Red Cross, for example, can focus on improving the health of indigenous people, but does not have authority in its charter to install water-delivery and purification systems, even though the lack of such a system profoundly, directly and negatively impacts health. A nonprofit composed of the indigenous people, however, could ensure their own organization does have such authority and could set their own agendas, make their own plans, seek the needed resources, do as much of the work as they can, and take responsibility - and credit - for the success of their projects (or the consequences, should they fail).

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