“I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” ―Malala Yousafzai

The theme for IWD-2016 is “Pledge for Parity”. HelpingBrainz.Org’s Women Empowerment Team in association with IWPG (International Women’s Peace Group) “Pledged for Parity” at NVS Public School, Sector 53 Gijhore, Noida.

HelpingBrainz.Org’s Women Empowerment Team doesn’t just only celebrate women empowerment, and honour them on March 8th every year, however it’s year-long phenomenon, a continuous process; wherein we encourage people to begin the phenomenon of respecting women “from their homes”. The Women Empowerment Team in HelpingBrainz.Org led by Shubhangi Srivastava , Athulya Rajan , Athulya Chandra and Neeraj Shukla , spends their Saturdays in designing and executing projects related to Women education, Women empowerment, Health Care Camps, Legal Aid Camps and Entrepreneurships.

Painting Competition with “Women Empowerment as the theme”, Pledge-for-Parity, Congratulatory speech-thanking the womanhood, Guest lectures, Experience Sharing Congresses, Music shows were some of the key programmes orchestrated at 3 hours programme by the team led by Shubhangi Srivastava (Project Manager, Women Empowerment Team). 100+ children participated enthusiastically in the event, and Professionals and Teachers who participated in the experience sharing congress at the school where Manish Kumar (Principal, NVS Public School, Noida) Dr.(Prof). Manoranjan Mohanty (Distinguished Professor), Dr. Bidyut Mohanty (Head of Department, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Women’s Studies, Delhi), Suman Silwal from Samsara The World Academy, Vandana Sharma (Academic Programme Officer) from Amity University, , Chandreshwari Minhas (Assistant Professor) from Amity Law School, Hemalatha Jaganathan (Principal) from Navyug School – Moti Bagh, Swati Sahni and Rama Ranganathan (both teachers) from Navyug School – Moti Bagh, Neeru Tiwari (Teacher) from Jaypee School and Umair Yunus, Sumit Singh and Rishabh (students) from Amity University.

Others who helped in facilitating the events were Giyoung Kim and Janine Lee, Delegates from IWPG, South Korea; Soumya Srivastava, Shivam Mathur, Rishabh Rastogi, Pranay Jain, Shivangi Singh, Saurabh, Gaurav Gupta from KNMIET, Modinagar.

From HelpingBrainz.Org we had, Shubhangi Srivastava (Project Manager, HelpingBrainz.Org), Gitanshu Khurana (Social Media Manager, HelpingBrainz.Org), Ragini Singh (Project Leader, HelpingBrainz.Org), Vikas Jain (Education Counsellor, HelpingBrainz.Org), Pratik Raj Bishen (Public Relations Manager, HelpingBrainz.Org), Vivek Vaid (Social Development Consultant, HelpingBrainz.Org), Gagan Walia (Internet Researcher, HelpingBrainz.Org), Sanjeev Verma (Volunteer, HelpingBrainz.Org) and YedhuKrishna Menon (Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org).

“Women are leaders everywhere you look—from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.” —Nancy Pelosi

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