Seema is a young mother of four children. Despite living in significant poverty she is standing proudly in her house, which is located in a slum community in Bijnor. Two of Seema’s children attend our Bijnor Education Centre. At the end of 2022 we helped Seema by making some repairs to her house and providing her with new beds, warm blankets and kitchen utensils. Many women with a similar story to Seema will be attending SHINE. We hope that Seema is able to attend as well. We count it a great privilege and responsibility to advocate for her needs and to bring love and fight for greater equity to her life circumstances and her children’s future.
#Embrace Equity
Our fifth Women's SHINE Conference will be held this coming Saturday, 11th February. This annual event coincides with International Women’s Day which will be celebrated on 8th March. The theme for IWD this year is ‘embrace equity’ which is a theme that has great relevance for the many women who we work with and walk alongside through our many projects across Northern India.
This year SHINE will again be led by our local ‘Project Help India’ team. We are honoured and delighted to have between 500-600 delegates registered to attend. We have an amazing lineup of guest speakers who include; Mrs Ritu Khanduri -President Legislative Assembly, Mrs. Shweta Choubey -Senior Superintendent of Police, Miss Evangeline -Gynecologist and Women’s Health Expert, and Anukriti Gunsai who was former Miss India Grand International, crowned Miss World (Asia Pacific India) 2014. Anukriti is now a politician, an active social worker and advocate for minority groups across Northern India.
There is certainly a sense of excitement as we meet and talk with women in the community. Preparations are in full swing with buses booked to transport 200 women from a number of towns, villages and slum communities.
Through our work at ‘Project Help India’ we are providing hope through education and opportunities that many girls and women living in poverty would never have thought possible. Many of the women are the mothers of the kids who attend our education centres
Our conference aims to educate and empower women and in doing so, raise a new generation of women whose dignity, individual strengths, talents and purpose will create a strong, happy and healthy India. Through this conference we want to give them an experience they will never forget. The women especially love the opportunity for singing and dancing together.
Most of our delegates are women who live in slums, in poverty. These women can't afford to pay, so we are not charging them. 'Project Help India' covers all costs thanks to the generosity of our donors and supporters. This year SHINE Conference will cost us a minimum of $7500 (which is $12.50 to $15 per delegate). Might you be able to sponsor some of our delegates? Your donation
We thank you for your ongoing support, prayers, interest and belief in what we are doing and achieving, with love from the Project Help India team.
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One of Seema’s neighbours who has also been invited to attend SHINE Conference