UCA News/by Shawn Sebastian
On a bright sunny day, Poornima, a 20-year-old post graduate student traveled from her remote village in Sultanpur district to a town in Raebareli district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Over the next three days, she would share many of her concerns as a teen living in a dangerous environment in a troubled state and would try to find solutions to some of them.
Poornima is part of a group of more than 35 teenage girls from Uttar Pradesh who attended a leadership/journalism training camp held July 31 to August 2 in the state's Raebareli district.
During discussion groups, the teens voiced many of their pressing concerns; growing insecurity, sanitation, education, and ending the practice of dowry, among others. The camp was organized by the Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojana womens' rights organization
based in Uttar Pradesh........[Read More]
(The views expressed above are the personal views of writer)