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Notes of Hope 2013
- Category: Our blog
- 09 Mar
- Written by Deesh Sekhon
On March 8th GirlKIND and Abbotsford Community Services partnered with Dave Kandal Elementary students to take part in our 2nd Annual Notes of Hope. These notes are well wishes, notes of empowerment that will be given to girls that live in orphanges where they either have been abandoned by their parents or rescued from being trafficked.
These notes along with personal care supplies will be sent to a home in India & Cambodia. It is a small gesture of kindness to let them know there is a whole other world thinking of them. It is also a valuable lesson to the kids creating them as they get creative and constructive they learn about a whole other world and what it means to reach out to someone as well as value what they have. I had fun watching the kids get creative & colourful. Thanks to Anoop, Ty, Balraj and Dave Kandal Elementary.
.International Women's Day with Bif Naked
- Category: Our blog
- 09 Mar
- Written by Deesh Sekhon
International Women's Day at the University of the Fraser Valley was amazing! I watched the film Miss. Representation for the first time, the film that deals with the issue of sexual objectification of women and the role that media plays. Lenghty but indeed very informative.
Following the film was a talk with punk rocker & cancer survior Bif Naked. This was the first time I heard her speak and she was phenomenal! Very witty, intelligent and full of great life experiences. It was a full house, I certainly left feeling very pumped to take on all the challenges we women face but also very encouraged to see so much strength within my community.
.International Women's Day | 2013
- Category: Our blog
- 08 Mar
- Written by Deesh Sekhon
Grateful to know all of these exceptional women who stand up for women and girls around the world, many others that aren't on this image, celebrate you today. Happy Women's Day!
.India’s Killing Fields: A Culture of Gendercide
- Category: Our blog
- 22 Feb
- Written by Sunil Patel
Article written and submitted by Sunil Patel
There is a common proverb that stems from the Holy Vedas – the tenets that laid the foundation for Hinduism – which beautifully informs us that the Stri (Woman) is deserving of all our adulation, adoration and reverence as she brings to the world not just her warmth and comfort, but success, prosperity, peace, love and joy. She is our Laxmi, the Goddess of Wealth – in the material and spiritual sense. This was how women were treated during India’s Golden Age: The Vedic Age. In India today, behind the Westernised supermarkets, the call centres, the hustle and bustle on the streets of Mumbai, the vibrant streets of Delhi, the vegetable vendor and the man selling Bhel Puris in the early hours of the night, a little baby girl and an unborn baby girl, are becoming just another statistic in India’s hidden culture of Gendercide.
