 Sanju Women’s Welfare Association, Chennai

Roshni  January - March 2021

By Smt. Shanthi Socrates, President, SWWA

Every year, Sanju Women's Welfare Association (SWWA)celebrates International Women's Day in a grand manner, catering to the needs of the underprivileged women.This year,we finalised our plans with AIWC Madurai Branch,to serve the rural women of Kappalur village in Madurai Dt.

Smt. Shanthi Socrates President; Smt. Maruthi Sivaram, Secretary; Smt. Juliet Abelincoln Treasurer; Smt.Vijaya Subramanian Joint Treasurer; Smt. Vedavalli Jayachandran, Executive Committee Member and our trainer Smt.Nibuna started for Madurai to conduct the Women’s Livelihood project in the form of jewellery making. On 27th March, with great enthusiasm, we readied our banner, certificates and all the materials of the jewellery kit.Necklace, bracelet, bangles and earrings of eight designs were taught to fortyfive women and girls who participated with real interest. Thirty participants who completed the course were awarded certificates. `15,000 worth of materials along with the jewellery kit were given to the participants free of cost.As a part of Women's Day celebrations, SWWA did one more project on the same day for the welfare of pregnant women of Kappalur.Dr.Sowmini Devi gave an awareness talk on proper nutrition during pregnancy, importance of the girl childand the need for saving girl children and trees.Each pregnant woman was given a packet of dates just as we did in other districts of Tamil Nadu including Chennai in our previous SAVE GIRL CHILD SAVE TREES projects. The day ended on a happy note with all our members feeling utmost humility that they were given an opportunity to care about the needy even when they were battling the severity of Corona pandemic situation.

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