Stree Jagruthi Samithi

24th March 2007, some of the iVolunteer-Asha team members - Vijayanand, Sunita, Sayeesh and Arun were at Rotary Club–Yuvaka Sangha, Jayanagar, Bangalore to participate in an event organized by the volunteers of Accenture, Bangalore for the members of Stree Jagruthi Samithi - around 130 women, mostly working as domestic servents.

The activities planned during the event were as follows:
1) Awareness on HIV/AIDS
2) Skit by volunteers
3) Games by Valli and Sultana
4) Medical Check Up
5) Distribution of gifts and other items

The event started off with a powerful speech by Geeta Menon, Chairman of Stree Jagruthi Samithi. She spoke about various issues which women have to face in their daily life and highlighted the importance of women empowernment, financial independance, ability to handle domestic violence etc.
This speech set a good platform for Vijayanand to emphasize on the need for "Keeping good health" or "Having resistance to various infections" not just for self but for the entire family, so as to fulfill various personal and family necessities.
Highlighting the alarming facts and making them realize the gravity of the situation, Vijayanand explained the social discrimination shown towards the people infected with HIV and stressed on the need for Awareness or Knowledge about HIV/AIDS. Then he explained in details the
Modes of HIV/AIDS transmission
Modes of Non-transmission
Importance of HIV/AIDS Testing
10 things to practice for HIV/AIDS Prevention

Then Sunita took over and asked them to give a brief summary of the all points explained by Vijay. It was really very good to see that they were attentive and had understood most of the things explained by Vijay.
In the end Arun and Sayeesh distributed the pamphlets to all of them and asked them to contact the AIDS Helpline or visit ASHA Foundation for any further assistance.
One more successful event by iVolunteer-Asha Group…
Thanks to Ms. Anna Lopez (Corporate Citizenship Manager of Accenture) for inviting us and giving us this extremely satisfying opportunity to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS.