Woman is an embodiment of love, grace, and compassion; so understanding, balanced, sharp, witty, beautiful, and artistic. We can go on and on and still the essence of woman hood will be difficult to define. She creates, she nurtures, she supports, she loves, and she is a power house! Yet she is denied the very basic right to education, just because she is a woman. It is unfortunate that our society prefers sons just because of the myth that they carry forward the name and tradition of the family; they are considered a source of support during old age and for performing religious rites at the time of cremation and subsequently. The modern technology which was designed to detect any of the gender related congenital abnormality of the foetus is now being widely abused to detect the sex of the foetus with the intention of getting it aborted if it happens to be that of a female.
Founded and spearheaded by an enlightened mystic, Anandmurti Gurumaa, Shakti is a wake up call to combat the heinous practices and empower the girl child by quality education. Empowered woman is strong enough to stand as a support for her family and community at large. She further contributes to the prospects of next generation.
The project Shakti is an initiative by Anandmurti Gurumaa, an enlightened woman mystic, who has been raising her voice against female infanticide and the brutalities afflicted on the girl child in India. In India, on one hand goddess Durga is worshipped as a form of ‘Shakti’, while on the other hand, the incarnation of Shakti - the girl child is subject to female infanticide. Shakti – An initiative to empower the girl child is the voice of truth against this crude reality.
Shakti aims at empowering the girl child, by providing financial support to the daughters of widows/handicapped parents/war martyrs to complete their education up to 12th standard.This program is absolutely non-discriminatory in nature i.e. without any distinction on the basis of caste/color/creed.
Today, under the aegis of Gurumaa, Shakti has expanded its support by introducing computer awareness education program (CEAP) to the government girl’s schools of Sonipat, which constitutes one of the worst affected regions of declining sex ratio.
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