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| THE WOMEN?S DEVELOPMENT CELL (WDC) |
| The WDC organized the following activities during the year 2013-2014 |
| ?Expressions Speak Up?, related to a crucial topic, ?safety of women?on 6th February 2014 |
| The Women Development Cell of S.I.E.S college of Arts Science & Commerce, Sion (w) co-jointly with MAJLIS (An NGO working for ?Womens' Rights?) organized an event ?Expressions Speak Up?, related to a crucial topic, ?safety of women?. In general? most of us look at the issue of ?Harassment of Women? as mainly concerned with giving punishments and convicting the accused to life time imprisonment etc, while, this event portrayed the problem in a different light. The team of activists from ?Majlis Law? who deal with gender rights and issues on an everyday basis focused on creating awareness and also to broaden our knowledge of ?the areas of self defense by women, the way in which women can help themselves if such? situations occurs. |
| Various competitions such as? Poster Making, Speech, skits, Songs were conducted through? which? the students put forth their perceptions towards the problem of women?s Safety. The competitions got an overwhelming response by way of student participation. |
| An important aspect was that every presentation and performance was discussed, reviewed? and received feedback regarding womens safety. There was also a good discussion about the notion of ?capital punishment? being the ultimate solution for rape. |
| Following this, the street plays were held in the quadrangle of the college, again raising the awareness for safety of women.The NSS Unit of Maharashi Dayanand college, NSS Unit of S.I.E.S College and the DLLE students of S.I.E.S College did a great job in performing plays. Mixed with humor they displayed a message of total vigilance that?should be inculcated by women for their own safety.
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| This event also helped in clearing the misconceptions of a few, that rapes and other such abuse towards women are provoked by the women themselves. |
| At the end of the program students, both boys and girls left with a broader perspective regarding Empowerment and safety of women. |
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Gender Sensitisation week?19th-24th August 2013?
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A week in which all the members of the committee arranged to speak to the students in all the classes about the statutory need to? have a WDC cell in the institution and thereby create awareness about the role and functions of the WDC. The aim of Gender sensitisation was also to create an understanding that Gender exploitation could be happening in Institutions at various levels and that there was an urgency of addressing these issues at the Institutional level
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| Poster Competition?16th-28th?August?2013? |
| Poster Competition was conducted?for students on the following topics:1. Exploitation of Women 2.Women Empowerment 3. The Girl Child. 30 students participated in the competition |
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Street Play?4th September 2013
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In collaboration with the NSS Unit of the college a street play was performed by the students on the occasion of Utkarsh which is the Annual Literary and Arts Festival of the college. The play performance brought to light several ?Girl Child? related perceptions of society in a very clear cut and skilful manner. The play called for introspection on key issues related to Women such as Female Infanticide, Obstacles to Girls? Education, Problems of Women at workplace, Women Empowerment, Respect for Women in everyday life and Gender biases in providing Education and? jobs to Girls. An oath by all students condemning such practices and agreeing to speak up against these issues by remaining sensitive to them concluded the street play
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| Health Chek-up??for all the Girl students?24th September 2013 |
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The WDC in collaboration with ?Young Concepts Incorporated??? organised a Health Chek-up ?for all the Girl students of the college .250 Junior and Degree college students?participated |
Eye-Check camp?24th?September 2013
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The WDC in collaboration with ?Vasan Eye Care? organised a Eye-Check camp for all the students of the college.?350 Students participated. |
Rajani Mathur
Convener
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| THE WOMEN?S DEVELOPMENT CELL (WDC) |
| The WDC organized the following activities during the year 2011-2012. |
- Screening of a video/documentary ?JOR SE BOL? (A video on Street Sexual Harassment) presented by Akshara (A Women?s Resource Centre) on Monday, 5th September 2011 in the Biology Laboratory. The video was shown to sensitize students to understand the seriousness of this issue and work towards its prevention. After the screening, the students were encouraged in an interactive dialogue followed by question and answer session.
- A cancer awareness lecture by Dr. K.V. Narayanan, General Physician was organized on 22nd September, 2011. Students of the Institute of Comprehensive Education attended the talk. Emphasis was given to the different types of cancer which occur in women especially, the ovarian and breast cancer. A question answer session followed the talk.
- Dr. Geeta Madhavan and Dr. Satish Sarfare attended and participated in the National Seminar on ?Addressing Sexual Harassment in Educational Institutions? organized by University Women Development Cell and Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College, Mumbai on 6th and 7th January 2012 at the Kalina Campus, University of Mumbai.
- A guest lecture was delivered by Dr. Siddhi Vyas, Faculty, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, on ?The Human Face of Human Rights? on 25th January 2012 jointly organized by the Women?s Development Cell and Department of English.
- An Intra-college event titled ?Expressions-Youth stands against domestic violence? was carried out on 10th February, 2012 jointly organized by the Women?s Development Cell, Department of English and Department of Mass Media. MAJLIS, a legal collective, working towards empowering women by making legal rights accessible to them carried out this event. The event focused on Verbal expressions in the form of Skit/Dance/Role play/Songs/Dance and Non-verbal expressions in the form of Poster making. Students of the Institute of Comprehensive Education, BMM & English Department actively participated and won many prizes.
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Vidya Satish
Convener
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