Young Adolescent Girls have been one of the most responsive groups in Uttan. On the 22nd September, 2015 108 Kishoris responded to the CCO who had organized a training on Gender Education at the Church Hall. The resource person, Ms. Shilpa Kashelkar led the group through an interactive session. She started by engaging the group through a series of questions that were posed to the group. They answered quite enthusiastically. She mainly spoke four points of gender inequality in society: 
1. Natural and Social - segregation of boys and girls in the family and stereotypes existent in social.
2. Violence and Force - girls often are subjugated to situations of compromise when violence and force is used - social, physical and psychological violence.
3. Decisions - girls are often not consulted when it comes to decisions.
4. Equality - equal opportunities for girls are often not provided citing gender concerns - food, education, freedom
The resource person then encouraged the young girls to accept an open challenge to raise their voices against all the above mentioned points if they observed that it was prevalent in their community. Many girls raised their hands and took a solemn resolve to raise their voice against such occurrences.
Report by Sr. Martha, Ms. Sanjina and Ms. Velencia - Uttan CCO
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