The women’s day was celebrated on Thursday17th March
2016 at Babrekar Nagar (Kandhivali).The purpose of this celebration was to
bring the women of the area together for a bonding and to give moral
support to each other in the various challenges faced by them. It
was to motivate them and to inspire them in their struggle as women. Many time
we as women do not
“A woman is a full circle. Within her is the
power to create, nurture and transform.” Understanding a woman is a mystery and
it needs lots of perseverance and knowledge. A woman is the epitome of love,
sacrifice, care and ability to nurture life. The ability to nurture life makes
woman the most powerful and strongest being. She can play different roles with
ease be it that of a dutiful wife, obedient daughter,
caring mother or
adoring sister.
All women deserve respect, no violence and equality
in everything. ‘A promise is a promise: it’s now time for action to end
violence against women. Though society is changing and progressing towards
equal right of both the genders but still we women are not empowered enough to
raise our voice against the violation done to us. Keeping these thoughts in
mind we advanced in preparing for the Women’s Day Celebration at Babrekar Nagar
(Kandhivali). With dance, songs, video presentation and talk in empowering the
women. There was a very good response from women of Babrekar Nagar. They were
very active and enthusiastic participation of fifty women.
Since one very active women died in my women group
due to cancer recently, so they requested me to have workshop on Cancer. The
contributions that women make to families often are overlooked, and instead
they are viewed as economic burdens. Many women are marginalized in society but
they really desire to improve their lives and lives of their family members.
There arises a need for women to receive timely health education. One of the
most common health problems that women today are dealing with is BREAST AND CERVICAL CANCER: "Breast
cancer is definitely one of the most common problems with women today. While
there's no one cause that can be ascertained as to why it hits one, science
does understand some issues related with it. The main reason is the paradigm
shift in lifestyle.
And so we invited Dr. Evelet Sequeira Public Health, Specialist Self
Transformation COACH
She is a well known person who is fully
engaged in working with women to guide and motivate them in various aspects. There
are times when women give priorities to other issues of life but neglect their
own life. They neglect their health in taking care of others. So it was very
much necessary to conscientize them and making them aware of various sudden
health hazards affecting them as well. And so Dr. Evelet spoke about Complementary Approaches to CANCER. In that she covered what is cancer? The types of
cancer that women suffer with. The cause symptoms and treatments of cancer. She
also said about the feelings and the stress, anger which can cause cancer like
disease. The intakes of food and emotions like our feelings way we treat our
own selves are also the cause of cancer. She explained in a
very simple language which all women could understand.
On the whole, the workshops were highly
appreciated, with anticipation for more sessions like these in the future. We
express our gratitude to the resource person Dr. Evelet Sequeira, who
accommodated us despite her busy schedule. I in fact thanked the women for
their contribution and coming in good numbers to attend the women’s day
celebration and session on Complementary
Approaches to CANCER. All benefited.
Ms.Premlata Thakur (Centre for Social Action -C.S.A) Mary Simon, for giving us
the sound system and the space to have the programme. Roslin and Amali who
helped me in mobilizing women of Babrekar Nagar.
Premlata Thakur.
Social Worker, Centre for Social Action
