It’s more
than two years since the nation stood united in its anger and revulsion at the
horrific rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in the national capital. If
you are a woman, whether you grew up in a rural or urban region, lived at home
or ventured into a new city away from family, worked in office or manage your
house full-time—the fear of sexual harassment is real and constant. In 2014 over
three lakh women were kidnapped, raped, molested and almost 670 women in the country
were being sexually harassed daily. Of course, those were just the
reported numbers—the actual cases of violence against women were much higher.
If you count all the women who are raped by the time they turn 18 that are
almost 40 percent of the entire demographic of women rape survivors.
Despite
active debates among lawmakers in Parliament, awareness campaigns and a host of
measures to curb violence against women, the statistics in 2014 is no less grim.
Delhi in the north, Assam and Tripura in the northeast, and Rajasthan in the
west are the most unsafe states for women in India.
Vedanta foundation had
organized two workshops on women’s safety focusing on the women who doesn’t
have accompany while returning from school, college, work etc in Vitthalwadi, Mumbai
and at Ringus in Rajasthan by free of cost. Around
850 girls were taught
simple & effective Self-defense techniques without the need for formal martial art
training like using immediately available tools like dupatta, watch, glasses,
bangles, bricks, keys, chain, buckle, pen, etc.
Through the
workshops foundation is boosting the path of awareness, assertiveness, verbal
confrontation skills, safety strategies and physical techniques that enables
one to successfully prevent, escape resist & survive violent assaults or
dangerous situation are tackled.
