By Yedhu Krishna Menon, Founder – Helping Brainz
Our Gratitude!
Our Sincere thanks to My Physics Teacher from, Dwarka for arranging a venue for us to speak in Dwarka.
The Plot!
Dwarka, in West Delhi is turning to be the bronchi of Delhi (though not heart), as the population over here (as the list of Flats, Schools and MNCs) is increasing, greenery and safety of the city is becoming the highlighting issues.
We’re just a team of Weekend Social Workers and Entrepreneurs who activate their Social Cells during the weekend as on weekdays, we dedicate/donate our cells/energy for the corporates/schools/colleges [a majority of us are Corporate Citizens, Students, Professors and Teachers]. So, one can imagine the level of analysis we do in our weekends, I mean it’s not more than what all other registered social cells of the society do in the weekdays , however we’re proud to say that we’re making miracles- though we socialize only on weekends.
Meanwhile, we in our analysis we found that, Dwarka is becoming the epicenter of 2 big problems, which can rock-down the economic development of the country, they’re: Women Safety and Teen Suicide. To be honest, the entire Helping Brainz team knocked several doors in Dwarka to educate the beings of this growing city about the atrocities; however it was really surprising to see that no one is interested to deal with these social menaces. People here just want to limit this news to the newspapers they’re reading along with the daily tea. In this juncture My Physics Teacher gave us an opportunity to get into this webbed world, thus we had a Women Safety Campaign/Awareness Session on December 8th, 2013 at Dwarka [A venue where more than 100+ families gathered].
About the Event!
As the event was to educate my own mother tongue speaking community, I made few calls to my energy cells (Amma, Achan and Dr.Rathi Menon) and listened to my motivator Dr. Sunita Krishnan as usual. I was just standing next to My Physics Teacher waiting for my turn , it was then I was called by the President and Secretary of the local committee , for a one-2-one meeting , I was bit amazed and to be honest it was really flabbergasting to have an ad-hoc meeting 5mins before a session.
It wasn’t a meeting however , a complete questionnaire ( Screwing Session), wherein the President and Secretary of the local committee screwed me with several brain exploits – damaging all the positive contents I gathered from my energy cells and Dr. Sunita Krishnan. Though Rajeev Uncle, tried his level best to advocate me infront of them, or I must say infront of their electrifying questionnaires, they didn’t get convinced instead they asked me to CONVINCE THEM, IF I NEED TO PERFORM AN EVENT OVER THERE! – I thought, reality shows are better than them!
The questions asked by them:
- For which political party are you doing the SOCIAL WORK?
- Where are you getting the funds from?
- What all are your benefits out of these?
- What empowerment do you wanna bring in this society?
- Why do you do social work?
- Define Empowerment, An atrocity!
Huh! I felt as If my English teacher is asking me questions. Once while addressing an international crowd at TED-Mysore, Dr. Sunita Krishnan Said, and “My biggest challenge is the Society”. Now, I very well understand that, she was mentioning about this “SOCIETY”. I’m ashamed to say that, the President is a retired army Captain. I must call them illiterate literates, padhe likhe gavar, the roadblocks for the country’s development.
May be for us (HelpingBrainz) => we have our own definitions for Women Empowerment, however if it’s not matching with them, it’s not our CUP OF TEA.
Session- Delivery!
Helping Brainz never stops though mountains get erupted infront of them, me along with Anns Isaac and Radhika Gupta, went ahead with the event, and educated the people on Women Safety and Empowerment.
Yedhu Krishna Menon, from HelpingBrainz.In, started with Awareness Session preceded by Anns Isaac from JNU, Delhi (a resource person for Helping Brainz) who led the experience sharing congress.
