“A baby girl… one of the most
beautiful miracles in life, one of the greatest joys we can ever
know, and one of the reasons why there is a little extra sunshine,
laughter and happiness in your world today.”
Vimukti charitable trust® Pothnal organized an awareness program on
“save the Girl child, Educate the Girl Child” at Narbanda village,
Manvi Taluka. Mrs. Shoba the resource person expressed her view
saying, Female foeticide is both a national wide glitch and a social
evil. Sex selective abortions and rise in the number of female
infanticide have become a major burning social problem in several
part of India. Cases of female foeticide are mounting at a swift
rate in urban India transcending all barriers of caste, class and
community. The most worried factor is the fact of homicide of a girl
child is infanticide intentional act of killing a female within one
year of her birth. If female babies survive foeticide, they are
deserted or dumped in a dustbin or sewer. Sometimes, they are buried
alive or poisoned to death. Sometimes they are even killed by
applying poison on the mother’s breast. They are also sold,
murdered, tortured and beaten up.
This is due to an extreme desire for the boy- child among some
sections of our society that denies the female child’s right to be
born in this world. Female children are also at risk from gender
threats such as lack of education, child labour, child marriage and
forced marriage, gender based violence and oppression. In child
marriage, though the boy continues his education, the girl is
deprived of her right to education and employment. Some people feel
that the birth of a girl child may lower people their social status.
The School head master Mrs. Sushila expressed that, it’s the
responsibility of everyone to take care of girl children and to give
them all the opportunities that they need to succeed in life. “Save
the Girl child, educate the Girl Child” is one of the social
initiatives that everyone has to fight and promote the girl child’s
integral wellbeing. We who are present here, our aims are to
protect, safeguard, support, and educate the girl child. Many who
attended the program expressed very positive about it and they will
join in this global fight. 300 participants benefited from these
training.
