Women Development Cell 2009-10

Street Play Competition on “Status of Women”

8th Feburary, 2010
The Department of Adult and Continuing Education and Extension, University of Mumbai organized its annual festival ‘Udaan – The Flight of Extension, 2010 at Aanandibai Pradhan Vidyan Mahavidyalaya, Nagothane. Fifteen of our students participated in a street play competition on the theme, ‘Status of Women’ and won the First Prize among eleven other participating colleges. The street play titled ‘Ek paaul prakasha kade’ depicted the status of women in Indian society. The main highlights of the play were role of education in women empowerment, and depicted the optimistic attitude of the common man bearing in mind that if a woman is educated the entire family will progress. There was one more moment of pride when our student Nilesh Kathara won the third prize in the Poster competition which was also based on the theme – ‘Status of Women’.

Sisters of the Destitute

23rd to 26th December, 2009
To serve the women of the community, the students of PCER-Panvel, under the guidance of the WDC went to: Jyoti’s Terminal Care Centre at Kalamboli, Navi Mumbai which is one of the two centres of Jyoti’s Charitable Trust (JCT) formed by the congregation of the ‘Sisters of the Destitute’. It is the first residential care home providing congenial environment to women suffering from HIV and AIDS (PLWHAS) in Maharashtra and Jyoti’s Rehabilitation Centre at Taloja, Navi Mumbai, which provides various income generating activities for women with an aim to make them economically independent. Here the students cleaned & decorated the vicinity of these institutes for Christmas, worked in the fields and the cattle-sheds, organized entertainment programmes for the patients, narrated stories, sang songs to them, played games and shared with them many wonderful experiences and spread laughter and happiness. Later in college, the different groups shared with their classmates their experiences with the women in these institutes.

Zonal Level Workshop on “Gender Sensitization”

25th & 26th November, 2009
Teacher Educator, Mrs. Kalpana Yelgaonkar and our B.Ed. student Ms. Richa Verma attended a Zonal level workshop on Gender Sensitization. The workshop was organized by the Women’s development cell (WDC) of the University of Mumbai and ICLES’ Motilal Zhunzunwala College. The Chief Guest was Dr. Prof. Kranti Jujurkar, Chairperson of WDC, Mumbai University. Other resource persons were from the NGO, ‘MAVA’. The main highlights of the workshop were Gender and Sex difference, Sexual Harassment, Working Style of WDC, Directives and Codes for teachers at the workplace – 2008. Mrs. Kalpana Yelgaonkar briefed the faculty members and the students about the workshop.