The two of us started the day by participating in yoga at 7am; where we learnt how to count to 10 in the local language and it was very relaxing experience.
Then we all went out on our introduction to the particular community partner that we will be working with for the next few days.
I (Emilia) went to the India Sponsorship Committee where we spoke to two of the women who work there about the programme and what we are going to be doing over the next few days. In this charity the staff teach the local children and adults about gender equality and explain why it is important that girls go to school. Also, the women can pay to make bags and purses with old fashion sewing machine which the organisation sells and the women get a percentage of the profit made from the group. Over the next few days we will be going out into the local communities where we will be doing activities with the children that we organise.
I (Daisy) went to the Green Tara foundation, which works with young children and mainly adolescents teaching them informal education and life skills. They work in both schools and local communities, with both boys and girls, all around the ages of 14-18. We visited the office for Green Tara and met the founder Dr Mune who told us about the foundation and her inspirational story. We were then taken to a local community where we visited some of the houses in the slums of people who are helped by The Green Tara Foundation.
When we got back we had a Indian culture session where we had feedback time about how the day went and how we felt about the days ahead, and asked some questions about the Indian culture.
Then we had our first 10 million girls session, which was focusing on the 'stop the violence' campaign, in which we participated in various actives related to the topic. For example we got given sentences related to the issue and we had to do a freeze frame of it.
After this session we had dinner, and finally had a prep session in our groups for the next day of community work, and reflected on the day.
Then we had our first 10 million girls session, which was focusing on the 'stop the violence' campaign, in which we participated in various actives related to the topic. For example we got given sentences related to the issue and we had to do a freeze frame of it.
After this session we had dinner, and finally had a prep session in our groups for the next day of community work, and reflected on the day.
Emilia and Daisy xxx
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