INDIA: Grand Gala Gathering for Women's Celebration
ORGANISED BY: New Life
WHERE: Near the Bridge in Cantonment Thiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India
WHEN: March 8, 2012
EMAIL: newlife_elc@yahoo.com
WOMEN ON THE BRIDGE: New Life on the Join Me on the Bridge website
International Women’s Day was celebrated by our women members grandly on the 9th March 2012.
153 women representing their fellow women from selected pockets of Trichirappalli district participated in the grand event.
The women representatives, who were wearing green colour dresses to say that they are prospering with New Life, formed a Human Chain near the Trichirappalli Corporation office at 3 p.m. which is near the Koraiyaaru river bridge.
All the women who participated in the Human Chain shouted slogans emphasizing women’s empowerment. Some of the slogans are:
- Let us create a safe world for women
- Let us fight against the foolishness of degrading women.
- Education to women; Light to family
- Women are the eyes of the nation
- Let us unite against the violence against women
- Let us work for women empowerment
- Let us fight for equal rights to women.
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About New Life
New Life
New Life came into existence in the year 1993 with the help of philanthropists from various fields including agriculture, engineering and medicine.
New Life designs projects based on surveys of the socio-economic problems of the project area and support the poor, abused and abandoned children and women by executing the projects with a defined goals/objectives.
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