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Hi! I'm Lipi Gupta.
I had an adventure this summer in Agra, India trying to make a difference in the lives of 35 young women of Nagla Kharga Village. I'd like to share my experience with you; I hope their stories move you as much as they have inspired me! Thank you for reading and feel free to contact me [by posting a comment/question] if I can be of assistance in any way, in a similar endeavor of yours!
Project SHAKTI was funded as one of 2009's 100 Projects for Peace.
Project SHAKTI Overview
Project SHAKTI was funded as one of 2009's 100 Projects for Peace.
Project SHAKTI Overview
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Reunion, August 2010
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- Ethical Questions and Considerations
- Lessons Learned | What Would I Do Differently if I...
- My Process in Carrying Out Project SHAKTI
- Reflections | What I've Learned About Myself & How...
- Selected Participant Biographies
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- UPDATE October 2009
- UPDATE December 2009
- Empowerment is a Process...not a destination.
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Recommended Resources (These are all great books I read/consulted and found to be helpful!)
- Appreciative Intelligence: Seeing the Mighty Oak in the Acorn / Tojo Thatchenkery, Carol Metzker
- 104 Activities That Build: Self-Esteem, Teamwork, Communication, Anger Management, Self-Discovery, Coping Skills / Alanna E. Jones
- Beyond Words: A Guide to Drawing Out Ideas for People Who Work with Groups / Milly Sonneman
- Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive / Noah J. Goldstein, et al
- Playing With Fire: Feminist Thought And Activism Through Seven Lives In India \ Sangtin Writers, Richa Nagar
- Unheard Voices: Stories of Forgotten Lives / Harsh Mander
- The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter / Juanita Brown
- Appreciative Team Building: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team / Diana Whitney
- Activities That Teach / Tom Jackson
- The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls / Valorie Schaefer, Norm Bendell
- Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making / Sam Kaner
- Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide To Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World / Michael Jacoby Brown
- The power of women's organizing : gender, caste, and class in India / Mangala Subramaniam.
- Recent studies on Indian women : empirical work of social scientists / editors, Kamal K. Misra, Jane
- The gender gap in basic education : NGOs as change agents / edited by Rekha Wazir.
- Education and empowerment among Dalit (untouchable) women in India / Moses Seenarine.
- Literacy for rural women in the Third World / Krystyna Chlebowska.
- International policies for Third World education : Unesco, literacy and development / Phillip W. Jon
- Planning education reforms in developing countries : the contingency approach / Dennis A. Rondinelli
- Women, education, and family structure in India / edited by Carol Chapnick Mukhopadhyay and Susan Se
- Gender and social equity in primary education : hierarchies of access / edited by Vimala Ramachandra
- Education and the process of change / edited by Ratna Ghosh and Matthew Zachariah.
Links that Helped Inform Project SHAKTI
- Developing an Effective Strategic Project Plan
- Smile Education Programs
- Menstrual Hygiene and Management in Developing Countries
- Community Self-Reliance...from Jal Bhagirathi
- Using Media to Encourage School Attendance...from Going to School in India
- Multicultural Teaching Resources...from Multicultural Pavillion
- Self Defense in India
- Girl Scouts Programs and Publications
- GENDER INEQUALITY WORLDWIDE: What's at Stake? ... from Off Our Backs 2008
- The Idea of Talking Openly About and Embracing the Feminine and Unfeminine Things We Do... from That Takes OVARIES!
- CARE's Education and Women's Empowerment Programs
- CEPDA Education/Choose a Better Future Programs
- Girls Helping Girls Empower-a-Girl Model
- The Adolescent Girls Initiative of the World Bank
- What happens in India matters over here since “India’s influence on the world economy will be [big and quick]” and giving rural dwellers opportunities to enjoy a higher quality of life will prevent greater health & social problems in future city slums, since “140 million rural dwellers will urbanize by 2020 due to…caste barriers and unemployment”... Says Goldman Sachs in India's Rising Growth Potential Report
- Innovative Indian Teaching for Universal Elementary Education and Social Justice
- "India ranks 113 out of 130 in educational attainment equality for women"...says the Gender Gap Report 2008 by World Economic Forum
- "If women are healthy then they can jump start the life of their family and the economy" says UNFPA ... in Women's Health Fuelling Poverty
About Me
- Lipi Gupta
- Northern Virginia/ D.C./ Northfield or Twin Cities, Minnesota, Carleton College Class of 2O12, United States
- I believe in humans' collective ability to realize the society that we choose to envision, and in our individual capacity to become better everyday. "Be the Change You Want to See in the World." ~Gandhi
Inspiring Women Leaders in Development and/or Female Empowerment
- 1000 Women for Peace Around the World
- Afsana ...highlighted by Oxfam
- Anouradha Bakshi, Rani, and Shamika: Project WHY
- Fahima, Anna, & Amena... highlighted by CARE
- Sejal Hathi
- Social Profit Network Social Entrepreneurs (They're men, but deserve some props too!)
- Sonali Kolhatkar
- Urvashi Butalia
- Women Indian Athletes Who Refused to be Pornified
Thank You
Project SHAKTI happened only because of
generous funding from:
KATHERYN WASSERMAN-DAVIS
My hosts:
Mahipal Singh and the Nagla Kharga community
my dear:
girls (all 35 participants I was lucky to have), mother KANAK GUPTA, father DILIP GUPTA, aunt ABHA GUPTA, brother Kartik Gupta
and support from:
friends and Carleton faculty and staff
Thank you all for your generous help and encouragement; it truly means a lot to me!
generous funding from:
KATHERYN WASSERMAN-DAVIS
My hosts:
Mahipal Singh and the Nagla Kharga community
my dear:
girls (all 35 participants I was lucky to have), mother KANAK GUPTA, father DILIP GUPTA, aunt ABHA GUPTA, brother Kartik Gupta
and support from:
friends and Carleton faculty and staff
Thank you all for your generous help and encouragement; it truly means a lot to me!
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