This is an attempt to showcase the real picture of Indian women, both in rural and urban places. Women can bring the change in society and develop it.... Lets help them

2. The Rural woman

3. Waiting at Manikpur Railway Station with bundles of Firewood

5. Begging for Food

6. She has no other work option but to clean the laterines of Mau Town

8. She lost her children out of Hunger and Poverty

9. The lost Childhood….

10. School days…… Child Labor

11. She is just 15 yrs, her son is 18 months old

12. They also suffer from… Maternal Mortality Women Trafficking Malnutrition Exploitative Practices Child Marriage Dowry Gender Violence Child Labor Eve Teasing Sexual Harassment Family Abuse & a lot more…

13. 60 % of the Girls are married before the age of 16 Nearly 60% of the married girls bear children before they are 18 125,000 women die from pregnancy and related causes every year Maternal mortality in India is the 2 nd highest in the world

14. Access to Sanitation facilities is a special problem for women and girls Public toilets for females are few

15. It is well known that women and children work in huge numbers in bidi-rolling, agarbatti-rolling, bangle making, weaving, brassware, leather, crafts and other industries. Yet, only 3 % of these women are recorded as laborers.

16. Poverty Levels are still 60 % plus, where in, Extreme poverty figures maintain to be at 35% plus mark

17. Some Global Eye Openers Some Global Eye Openers Some Global Eye Openers

18. China: Suicidal rates are higher in case of women Status of Japanese working women in dilemma The Deafening Silence: Asian American women in the whirlpool of depression Women’s life at risk because of acid attacks in Ethiopia Some Global Eye Openers

19. 37% women victims of domestic violence: NFH survey Almost half of Indian women have not heard of AIDS Married women, children most anaemic in India Women are killed in China to become brides of dead men Some Global Eye Openers

20. 6S Model for Women Empowerment

21. Shiksha= Education Swasthya= Health Swavlamban= Self Reliance Samajik Nyay= Justice Samvedana= Sensitivity Samta= Equality

22. They are strong at

23. Synergy Cooperation Physical Strength Untapped Energy Multi Tasking Innovation Closeness with Nature

24. Illiteracy Fatal Orthodoxism Wide Gender Discretion They are weak because… Lack of Awareness Less Exposure

25. Threats to them are many…

26. Natural Calamities

27. Malnutrition

28. Family Abuse

29. AIDS Lack of Resources

30. opportunities

31. opportunities

32. opportunities

33. Self Help Groups Aangan Badi Govt Schemes Micro Finance Self Employment

35. The URBAN Woman

39. They are strong at…

40. Access to good education

41. Nutritious & healthy FOOD

42. High self

43. FINANCIAL STABILITY

44. Opportunity to Liberalize

45. They struggle for…

46. Conjoint Efforts Synergized Orientation Spending Quality time with family Getting Recognition Maintaining Work Life Balance

48. Reaching Office…

49. They also end up in

50. Stress Tiredness Bad Habits Molestation Disturbed Life

51. They have plenty of Opportunities

52. End less growth Live to up their dreams Knowledge Empowerment & above all… RURAL INDIA

53. Across Cultures and over Centuries it has been Proven that Woman can change the world around..

54. Remembering some of them today…

55. Efforts in the fields of… Shiksha Swasthya Swavlamban

56. Kasturba Gandhi (Ba)

58. Mother Teresa

60. Sindhu Tai

61. “ God can not be everywhere, So he created Mother”

63. Sarojini Naidu

65. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi

67. Homai Vyarawalla

68. India's first woman photo journalist, 92-year-old Homai Vyarawalla , has witnessed many historic events and changes during the freedom struggle and after. Her vast portfolio, soon to be published in a book, has pictures of Mumbai in the 1930s, political leaders, freedom fighters, the Nehru era right up to the time of Indira Gandhi. The world saw the optimism and jubilation of a newly liberated country through her pictures. Homai Vyarawalla photographed the last days of the British Empire and her work traces the birth and growth of a new nation. The story of Homai’s life and her work spans an entire century of Indian history.

69. Efforts in the field of Samajik Nyaya

70. Kiran Bedi

73. Elaben Bhatt

77. Efforts in the field of Samata &

78. Samvedana

79. Medha Patkar

82. Arundhati Roy

85. Aruna roy

88. Nafisa Ali

90. They represent the Corporate Forum too….

91. Sudha Murty

94. Lalita Gupte

96. Tina Ambani

99. Naina Lal Kidwai

107. Shabana Azmi

110. And There are a lot more… Saluja Motwani Barkha Dutt Maharani Gayatri Devi Sushmita Sen Brinda Karat Nandita Das Kalpana Chawla Sunita Williams Menaka Gandhi Lata Mangeshkar

111. Efforts by Gayatri Pariwar…. Anti-Dowry Marriages Over 1 lac Inter-caste marriages Education, Yog and Health camps Nasha & Vyasan Mukti camps Self Reliance camps Efforts for Social Justice Encouraging women Empowerment Emphasizing Human Welfare Dev Sanskriti VishwaVidhyalaya

112. Shiksha= Education Swasthya= Health Swavlamban= Self Reliance Samajik Nyay= Justice Samvedana= Sensitivity Samta= Equality

113. Alone we are strong

114. Together we are Unstoppable!!!

115. Let’s join hands for the bigger cause

116. Individual efforts are appreciable, But not sufficient Let’s take them out of the darkness of life

117. Let’s build a better india