Since they lived in our family’s neighbourhood, Harsevak got to know about this. We convinced them to donate it to this school cum hostel which is run by a lady for underprivileged kids. The hostel  provides them a safe place to live and study.

The TV was then repaired by a seasoned electronic engineer at no cost and is now up and running for the children to access online classes taken by volunteer teachers free of cost.

A device donated for free has helped about 75-80 children for access to online education. Gratitude to the senior couple for their donation and all volunteers who made this possible!

I delved into details of the civil rights movement in America, the first time women fought a closely knit system and justly demanded an equal right to vote. I read in great detail about the undignified and unjust treatment meted out to women in India even in the early 20 th century. Post-Independence, Indian judiciary put several laws into action to protect women, at least in the eyes of law, if not in society.
No one is above the law and regardless of gender, caste or race, all laws apply equally to all citizens. These powerful words are the key to creating a dynamic and vibrant sovereign nation.

Statistics from the government records reveal that almost 80% of women in India have suffered as victims of domestic violence at the hands of male family members. This is a major violation of women and human rights. It not only affects their physical health but is detrimental to their mental state. Many of these victims abandon hope, become pessimistic, develop anxiety and eating disorders amongst other trauma.
The act ‘Protection of Women from Domestic Violence’ was brought into effect just recently in 2005. In my opinion, this act has failed to be effective. I believe that it would take social and cultural change in the society at large rather than the law to clean up such practices.

It astonishes me that cruelty in the form of physical violence can be an ignored in a
civilized society in the 2ist century.

Daughters are seen as a burden to the family’s financial responsibility. On looking around closely at some real life examples, I observed, that the poorest of families would have five girl children, only in the hope that the next child born would be a boy following which their troubles would disappear magically and they would be a ‘worthy’ family once again.

Recently during the covid lockdown, newspaper statistics reported manifold increase in calls of domestic violence on emergency hotlines. Such news came as a disappointment to me.

I hope to bring about a change in this gender insensitive society and create a more respectful, calmer world infuture.

Provision of easily available, low cost sanitary napkins to girl students is a top priority for us.

Harsevak committed to renovating and refurbishing the children’s play room in the Pediatric wing of the neighbourhood community hospital. We convinced the engineers and contractors to come and repaint the room and help with air conditioning repair jobs for the children’s play room. We then went about cleaning up the existing toys, sorting out the old furniture and replacing the broken ones with new toys.
We asked our friends and family to come and help out as well as contribute some books, funds for new toys and board games. We even met a book seller who willingly sold his goods at no profit cost and threw in some free gifts from his side for the children.

On the day of the launch of the newly renovated and expanded library and play area for the patients of the Pediatric ward, the doctors and  nursing staff gathered to flag off the first day of the newly reopened area.

Stationary, Candy, fruits and Colouring books were distributed to all the admitted  patients in the ward and everyone enjoyed the time together in gratitude…
It was an amazing experience, truly humbling and inspiring!
We hope we can continue to motivate people to contribute together for an amazing journey ahead..

It was a delight to reach out to them with these books which they really appreciated. Their enthusiasm and zeal for education made our day brighter !

Support has been extended to the lady who has adopted the school and day care with clothes for their siblings and time with the kids for distributing some joy!!      

I delved into details of the civil rights movement in America, the first time women fought a closely knit system and justly demanded an equal right to vote.

I read in great detail about the undignified and unjust treatment meted out to women in India even in the early 20^th century. Post-Independence, Indian judiciary  put several laws into action to protect women, at least in the eyes of law, if not in society.

No one is above the law and regardless of gender, caste or race, all laws apply equally to all citizens. These powerful words are the key to creating a dynamic and vibrant sovereign nation.

Statistics from the government records reveal that almost 80% of women in India have suffered as victims of domestic violence at the hands of male family members. This is a major violation of women and human rights. It not only affects their physical health but is detrimental to their mental state. Many of these victims abandon hope, become pessimistic, develop anxiety and eating disorders amongst other trauma.

The act ‘Protection of Women from Domestic Violence’ was brought into effect just recently in 2005. In my opinion, this act  has failed to be effective. I believe that it would take social and cultural change in the society at large rather than the law to clean up such practices.

It astonishes me that cruelty in the form of physical violence can be an ignored in a civilized society in the 2ist century.

Daughters are seen as a burden to the family’s financial responsibility. On looking around closely at some real life examples, I observed, that the poorest of families would have five girl children, only in the hope that the next child born would be a boy following which their troubles would disappear magically and they would be a ‘worthy’ family once again.

Recently during the covid lockdown, newspaper statistics reported manifold increase in calls of domestic violence on emergency hotlines. Such news came as a disappointment to me.

I hope to bring about a change in this gender insensitive society and create a more respectful, calmer world in future.