Teej Celebrations with the Women from the Slums

While our traditions, rituals and festivals add much more significance and value to our daily lives. Celebrating these local festivals also provide the opportunity to spread goodness, wellness along with more awareness and enlightenment.

In this direction only we come up with our next initiative to celebrate teej with the very versatile and talented skilled women and girls, from Navchetna Project of ASHI, who inspite of being most versatile and capable, need to come out of their inhibitions and take a stand for their own progress and development.

प्रकृति का उत्सव है हरियाली तीज..... In this direction only, we associated Teej, which is the monsoon festival and adds freshness, new life greenery and much more beauty to the whole of environment, a reason to be more thoughtful and dedicate our efforts towards the protection and conservation of our environment.

शक्ति का रूप है प्रकृति इसीलिए प्रकृति से जुड़ी है नारी... उसी प्रकृति की सर्व श्रेष्ठ रचना है नारी.... Such that women and environment have a very strong association not only in their daily lives but also in their existence, as both being the creators and also considered to be of the same feminine gender. 

But on same the environment today is under a major threat and needs urgent attention. So on this teej, we tried sensitizing these women to come up and put in more aggressive efforts to protect and save the environment.

To create a stronger impact we shared and narrated the efforts put in by women and specifically by rural women like#suryamani_bhagat, the #nature_activist from jharkhand #gaura_singh from uttarakhand who initiated the chipko movement.

Lastly these women and girls were also provoked to express and share their own ideas to protect and conserve the environment, where apart from solutions like tree plantation, forest conservation, preparation of household organic manure, they also came up with some of the advanced concepts of rain water harvesting through simple  traditional means.

In all, the women and girls present for the event, were sensitized with the need that as we celebrate

हरयाली तीज, we need to protect, conserve and flourish हरयाली in our envrionment.