Educate Girls Child

This day is celebrated every year on January 24 across the country. Its objective is to provide maximum support and facilities to the girls of the country in every respect. Apart from this, another objective of National Girl Child Day is to raise awareness about discrimination against girls. As we know that in India, gender inequality is one of the major issues that are needed to be focused on and it exists in several areas including legal rights, education, medical care, marriage, etc. Female Foeticide is another major issue that further affects the demographic problems in India. National Girl Child Day was first initiated in 2008 by the ministry of women and child development with a purpose to spread awareness about the lack of equality girls facing today compared to boys. SAMARTH team went to Its centre Basawanpur to increase the consciousness of the people and also council society to offer new opportunities to girl child in the society, remove all the inequalities faced by the girl child, the girl child should gets all their human rights, respect and values in the country. Firstly, SAMARTH organize drawing and slogan competition in which women and girls of the centre participate with full enthusiasm, they draw wonderfully and wrote awesome slogan of their own. 30 girls and women participated in the session that session took half an hour. After completing of competition prizes were distributed. First prize won by Monika Yadav, Karishma Yadav, Suman Yadav they wrote wonderful slogan on their own in which they wrote that ‘ beta beti mein fark na kare, yadi beta sikshit hota hai toh ek ghar ko roshan krta hai aur yadi beti shikshit hoti hai toh do gharo ko roshan krti hai’. Second prize won by Rachna and Sonali in which they written har ladki ko padhna likhna ki azadi milni chahiye ham padh ke kuch banna chahte hai. Third prize won by Babbli Yadav who draw wonderful drawing of beti baccho and beti padhao. Director SAMARTH Dr. Pravesh Dwivedi Also counsel women and girls that discrimination between men and women is wrong though in each household woman is facing some kind of discrimination. So we should react if any wrong things happen to anyone. After drawing and slogan competition Advocacy officer Aparna pardey , Programme Manager Ratna Sharma, and Programme Associate Sneha Shrivastava, ask some questions to the girls and women of the centre like what they understand by safety, in which situation they feel fear, how many law related to women they know, do you know helpline numbers etc. Women came forth shared many things related to these questions. Then Ratna Sharma counsel women and girls and told them that till today, a lot of girls are face inequality in the society with respect to their right to education, nutrition, legal rights, etc. the day is observed for enhancing opportunities for the girls in the country and to ensure that the girl children get respect and equality in right. This day also focuses on making sure that the girl children become aware of their rights.

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