WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

Empowerment means moving from enforced powerlessness to a position of power. Education is an essential means of empowering women with the knowledge, skills and self-confidence necessary to fully participate in the development process. Sustainable development is only possible when women and men enjoy equal opportunities to reach their potential.
Women and girls experience multiple and intersecting inequalities.
Structural barriers in the economic, social, political and environmental spheres produce and reinforce these inequalities. Obstacles to women’s economic and political empowerment, and violence against women and girls, are barriers to sustainable development and the achievement of human rights, gender equality, justice and peace.

Women are significantly under-represented in decision-making at all levels.
While the economic benefits of educating girls are similar to those of educating boys, recent findings suggest the social benefits are greater.
Women have the potential to change their own economic status and that of their communities and countries in which they live yet usually women’s economic contributions are unrecognized, their work undervalued and their promise undernourished.
Unequal opportunities between women and men hamper women’s ability to lift themselves from poverty and secure improved options to improve their lives. Education is the most powerful instrument for changing women’s position in society.
Investing in women’s and girls’ education is one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty.

DESIGN FOR CHANGE COMPETITION 2013

The school participated in Design for Change competition organised by Riverside School, Ahmedabad where schools across the globe participate. The students are to design a model for change in a particular field of their desire and implement the change.

The students of Std. XI took up the task of getting organ donors. They collected more than 100 organ donations and two full body donation!

In this process they learnt about change and that how difficult it is to break the mindset of the people. The design has won a special mention from the jury. This is what they have said:

“The students have touched upon a sensitive issue and it is really appreciable.’