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 Fleur in India
Fleur arrived in India. Fleur Visited Crayons Shaheed nagar. Fleur met Small children in Crayon. |
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Parents-Teachers
meeting in Crayons-Shaheed Nagar
A one to one interaction meeting of parents and teachers
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of new school building in Shaheed Nagar
Construction on new school building begun on 10th July
2006. The ongoing expansion of the school is to accommodate
a waiting list of 120 children. |
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Why Invest
“Today the international community is finally comprehending that empowering women and girls around the globe is the most effective tool for a country's development."
UN Deputy-Secretary General Louise Fréchette, opening the 50th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
Studies have repeatedly shown that by giving women equal education and work opportunities and access to a society’s decision-making processes, a country can boost its economic productivity, reduce infant and maternal mortality rates and improve the general population’s nutrition and health.
CommunitiWorks focuses on two themes that it believes are crucial to women’s progress around the world: their participation in development and their role in decision-making in all areas of society, from politics to business to media
MEETING THE NEEDS OF ALL MEMBERS OF A COMMUNITY
First we want to ensure that everyone within a community, regardless of skill level, education, and, most of all, gender, can move forward.
That is why we create partnerships between different groups, for instance, educated, unemployed youth and the women's cooperative or parents of children in the school and local government officials.
IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN
Second, providing comprehensive health services to all improves the health of children and women and improves the quality of life manifold. In the area of health, CW's strategic objectives aim to increase women's access to appropriate, affordable and quality health care, information and related services;
strengthen preventive programs that promote women's health; undertake gender-sensitive initiatives that address sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, and sexual and reproductive health issues; promote research and disseminate information; and increase resources and monitor follow-up for women's health.
Comprehensive health care services, including health awareness campaigns, would fulfill many of these objectives as well as dramatically reduce the number of health illnesses that weaken children and women.
EDUCATION FOR ALL
Third, with respect to education, comprehensive health services and focused efforts towards development are essential if we wish to ensure that all children have access to and complete a primary education of good quality by 2015 - the target set in the UN Millennium Goals.
IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF WOMEN'S LIVES
Our efforts at helping communities improve their own welfare first and foremost promotes women's participation in development in the three key fields of education, health and work. These three areas are recognized as critical for women's effective participation in development.
Societies that do not provide educational opportunities for all, adequate health care and decent employment are doomed to fail. Better education, access to health services, and opportunities for work, particularly outside the household, comprises a set of critical conditions sustainable development.
Research has shown that work is an entry point for women' access to other services, such as health and further education and training
Thus our efforts to provide employment, healthful environment and education to women in a way which is self-reliant and self-perpetuating in the future, is central to women's empowerment and improving the quality of women's lives.
CRUCIAL TO NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Of the world's 6.1 billion people, 20% are under the age of 5, and 27% are women between 15-45 years of age. A developmental effort for such a huge target population needs to be colossal in magnitude.
Societies will need to make massive investments to prepare young people and women for economic and social participation, indeed, for all aspects of national development. Countries that fail to provide girls and boys with the means to remain healthy and in school will not benefit as fully from other investments they make in people. What we do today will have far-reaching implications for the world in years to come.
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