On 18th
Feb.2016 Jeevan Dai Community Centre in Sahar, Andheri had organized a Saheli Din program with
225 women at Our lady of Health Church Sahar.
Resource person was Ms. Mumataz Saaikh,
who is leading a right to Pee movement in Mumbai. Shaikh started the “Right to Pee” campaign to fight for women’s rights to basic sanitation
facilities.
She expressed
that, “I want the basic dignity for all my sisters in the city who go out in
fear every day, wondering how they will relieve themselves if the need
arises.”Women end up going to railway tracks or the fields to go to the
bathroom”.
She pointed out that it can be incredibly dangerous in the city for
women to go to secluded places when nature calls, that there is a serious need
for women to have a safe place to go, when they need ‘to go.’
After this
session, women had a formed a group to take out this campaign in their
respective community. 
Mishal Dabre
Senior Social Worker, Centre
for Social Action
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