Saheli Din, Jeevan Dai CCO, Sahar - 18th Feb, 2016

On 18^th 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.

C.C.O committee members, Sr.Nirmal,Sr.Anmolly, Fr.Suren and Fr.Evan had given their support and help in making these workshops a success.

Mishal Dabre

Senior Social Worker, Centre for Social Action

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 26^th  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