Thursday 26 November 2015

Legal Aid Workshop at Jeevan Dai Community Centre, Sahar, 26th Nov, 2015

LEGAL AID WORKSHOP

Day/Date: 26-11-2015 Thursday

Organizers: Jeevan Dai Community Centre ,Sahar

Venue:  Jeevan Dai Hall, Sahar

Resource Person : Ms.Chitra Joshi is a well known person in ‘Dilaasa’, an NGO since 2001. She is the counsellor of the Baba Hospital, OPD Counseling department. She is fully engaged in women’s rights base work, her specialty being women and children issues. She, in fact, gives all kinds of awareness programs for women, to motivate them and make them aware of their rights. She helps women to open up and fight for their rights.

A  workshop was conducted by the Jeevan dai Community Organization  on the 26th  of November 2015. Ms. Indu (community worker)began with awareness song.Sr. Nirmal had introduced the resource person. The topic was legal rights with a specific focus on the Domestic Violence Act (2005). The resource persons for the workshop were representatives of the well known organization Dilasa which is a legal and counseling centre that offers legal services, legal awareness trainings and also work at Baba Hospital to counseling the cases. The session was very interesting for the participants as most of them knew a thing or two about the DV Act;  

Two State appointed Protection Officers also addressed the gathering as to what their duties and responsibilities were and the various initiatives of the State to make these services more accessible to the public. Several trainings and sensitization workshops were also conducted for the Police and other staff to improve their understanding of their responsibilities as representatives of the law enforcement. the participants felt empowered with more knowledge and information that they could take back to the community and their homes. 

Feedback from the participants was positive with a stress on more sessions on other laws as well. 5 cases came out for legal aid and counseling

Mishal Dabre
Senior Social worker - CSA

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