CSR

There are many organizations where a separate department of CSR works towards the community welfare in many areas. If you wish to start a Community Welfare Program as part of your CSR activity in the area of Women Empowerment, and share your ideas with others and form a group, contact smritikalra84@gmail.com

INTERNET

Internet can benefit everyone - students, housewives, elders, working professionals in any area.

How Internet can benefit everyone?

Students can search for several topics. Housewives can look for topics related to cooking, home decoration, self care & health care of family members, learn any creative activity online, childcare & parenting tips, gardening and other home care related topics. Elders can also read news of any country online and send email to their friends and search for topics related to elder care or other interesting topics or related to their hobby.

Internet has already become a popular mode of communication among working professionals in any field - engineers, medical, legal, media, banking, telecommunication, travel, entertainment and many other professions. Internet is a very important source of information and a channel of communication for everyone in any part of the world and is sure to benefit the community at global level in many different ways.

If you or any of your family members wish to learn and teach Internet basics, contact smritikalra84@gmail.com

GREEN & CLEAN ENVIRONMENT

SOLAR POWER

We all enjoy watching sunrise and sunset, however have we ever thought if solar power can be used to run our computer, TV, fan and reduce the cost of our electricity bills at home, office or even schools. Solar power is also used for cooking, heating water and in rural areas for irrigation purpose and for running tube wells. Solar Energy is surely a reliable and cleaner source of power. As many intelligent minds are working on inventing several other benefits of utilizing solar power in several parts of the world, this will also generate employment opportunity for many working in this area of creating Green and Clean Enviornment.

USE OF DUSTBINS & TRASHBAGS WHILE TRAVELING:

We all see and often ignore garbage lying on roadside or some people while traveling casually throw packets outside their car or train and dont realize that they are indirectly polluting the enviornment. What can we do about it ? You can keep a paper bag in your car, while traveling and throw garbage as you reach home or office and take care of environment also. Shopkeepers can also install dustbins near their shops and can mention that details and sponsor green and clean environment in their locality. This will motivate other people to throw garbage in the dustbin. This will generate employment for some underpriviledged children who prepare paper bags and you can help indirectly to them also by buying paper bags or cloth bags from such children and women. While purchasing vegetables and items for household chores, you can carry jute bags or cloth bags. Even shopkeepers can get some bags made from such underpriviledged children or women in rural areas and avoid plastic bags, which pollutes the environment.

CELEBRATE GREENERY ON SPECIAL EVENTS:

You can also celebrate your birthday or anniversary or any special day by planting a tree or even gift a bonsai plant to your parents, sister or brother, or elder family members or even keep a bonsai plant in your office. Many women can learn Bonsai culture and generate income by selling these plants to offices or hotels or at several events and be a part of creating green and clean environment.

JOIN COMMUNITY WELFARE CLUB !!

If you believe in helping others, join Community Welfare Club.

Community Welfare Club's objective is to help others without selfish motive and self interest and those who believe in uniting our nation and the concept of equality irrespective of religion, caste, gender and want to contribute in rural development can join.

Who can join?

Lawyers - who want to help women in their legal matters and can contribute some time in creating Legal Awareness in urban and rural areas in India in co-ordination with NGO's.

Teachers - who are willing to contribute on voluntary basis and teach several subjects as English, Maths & other subjects as per school syallabus in rural areas.

Housewives - who are willing to contribute on voluntary basis and can collect old school books, stationery and arrange to send them to several NGO's & teachers and students in rural areas.

Tourism Industry Specialist - Travel Agents who want to promote Volunteer & Rural Tourism can also join to promote Rural Development.

Working Professionals in any field who want to contribute in any way in rural development and community welfare can also join.

Contact smritikalra84@gmail.com

India-Women Empowerment

Legal Awareness
There are many social evils in India, such as female infanticide, dowry, bigamy, adultery, domestic violence, harassment and gender discrimination. Every lady in India at any designation or of any social status has to face either of such social evil at one stage or the other in her life. Many women in rural and even urban areas are not aware of the very existence of some of these social evils and whom to contact in case she faces such a problem.

FEMALE INFANTICIDE:
There are many families where a girl child is killed before she is born in this world, as many families still want a male child and discriminate against girl child. They feel that a daughter will bring a doom in their family and son will bring happiness and prosperity. In many cases, a husband can hit his wife if he does not want a girl child or in-laws can ignore her health or put undue pressure on her or may harm her indirectly if they don’t want a girl child and later show that she had an abortion and husband may get married for the second time with his parents’ approval (at times without first wife’s knowledge and commit bigamy) to have a male child and put false blames on her and give her divorce.

DOWRY
Dowry is a common social evil still prevalent in our Indian society. If at the time of marriage or during the marriage, the boy or his parents or his family member force the girl or her parents for any money, jewelry, car, house or any other materialistic things and harass her if she does not fulfill their demands, she can file a case against them for dowry.

BIGAMY
Bigamy means when a husband gets married to another lady without giving divorce to his legally wedded wife. When a husband gets married for the second time, while the first marriage is subsisting, bigamy is committed by the husband. As per Indian Legal System, bigamy is a crime. In such a case, a lady can file for bigamy and seek divorce on the grounds of bigamy. In such cases, if a lady is confident that her husband has a child born from the second marriage, she can request for DNA test. DNA test request can be made if husband says that he is not the biological father of the child and denies the paternity. This test can be done to verify the paternity of the child and can help to determine the biological father of the child.

ADULTERY
Many married men in India ignore their legally wedded wife and have a live-in-relationship or affair with another lady without legally wedded wife’s knowledge. Adultery is a crime in India. Live-in-relationship is not yet legal in India. A lady can file for adultery in such cases.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
There are many men who hit their wife and insult her or abuse her. In such cases, a lady can file a case of Domestic Violence and may seek divorce on the grounds of Domestic Violence.

MEDIATION PROCESS
If a lady has filed a legal case for bigamy, dowry, adultery or divorce or any other matrimonial dispute, she can request for Mediation process to resolve the conflict and her legal case. This means that both parties sit across the table in presence of a senior judge with their lawyers to resolve their legal issues and settle their issues amicably.

BENEFITS OF MEDIATION PROCESS:

The process of mediation is excellent system of resolving conflicts and matrimonial disputes. In India, the number of divorce cases are increasing and will further increase in the near future. Especially in divorce cases, where two partners feel that they are incompatible and cannot live together, it would be better to move the case to mediation center and take divorce and settle the matters amicably. Even in bigamy and adultery cases or maybe dowry cases, where some women break their silence and are struggling to make their voices heard and in reality they may feel betrayed and harassed by the opposite party or at times, due to certain constraints and reasons are unable to pursue the case further, it is better to approach mediation process and close the legal dispute and live in peace. A lady can request her lawyer to file an application for mediation to settle the matrimonial disputes.