Sambalpur : Every year, March 8 is celebrated as International Women’s Day since 911.The Theme for Women’s Day 2022 is “Gender Equality Today for Sustainable Tomorrow” # Break the Bias. This year, the goal is to create a gender-equal world. It is about celebrating a woman’s success and raising awareness against bias. Women and girls are effective and powerful leaders and change-makers. They are involved in sustainability initiatives around the world, and their participation and leadership results in more effective action.Continuing to examine the opportunities, as well as the constraints, to empower women and girls to have a voice and be equal players in decision-making and sustainability is essential for sustainable development and greater gender equality. Without gender equality today, a sustainable future, and an equalfuture, remains beyond our reach.
More than 500 Women associated with Self Help Groups under Project SAKSHAM from 6 Gram Panchayat in Rengali block participated in the Felicitation and cultural event.
Highlights of the event was:
- Appreciation Letter from District Social Welfare Officer to SHGs for Donation of 51K to Beggar Free Sambalpur Campaign.
- Felicitation of SHGs: Budding Entrepreneur of the Year; Leader of the Year
- SHG Stall with variety of products put by SHG women
- Odissi Dance Performance; Sambalpuri Performance
- Empowered Women Empower Women Skit by Students
- Selfie Corner: Break The Bias
Guest in their Speech appreciated the Women for their philanthropic act of Donating Rs.51000/- for Beggar Free Sambalpur Campaign to Collector Sambalpur on Eve of Women’s Day changing the empowerment narrative and becoming torchbearers of Socio- Economic Empowerment. The guests from Government also created awareness about various Government Schemes available for Women and assured full support to any women SHG approaching the office bearers. The SHG Stalls were visited, and Guests appreciated the entrepreneurs who have started small Producer groups and Income Generating Activities. BDO and Head HR Aditya Aluminium Committed to Computer Literacy for the Women in upcoming months and many more impactful projects.
Event was inaugurated and attended by Dr. Vivekanand Mishra Vice President and Head HR AAL, Mrs. Geetanjali Mahapatra DSWO, Mr. Shankar Sahu Block Development OfficerRengali, Mr. Santosh Nayak District Social Welfare Officer Sambalpur, Mr. Subrat Mohanty Bank Manager SBI Lapanga, Ms.Lilabati Nag CDPO, Rengali,Ms.SwagatikaSrichandan Senior Scientist KGVK, Mr. Rabi Sathpathy DSSRO, Mr. Satyanarayan Agarwal Ex Vice Chairman Rengali Block, Mr. Pankaj Joshi Head WCM, Mr. Bhavani Mahapatra DH HR AAL, Mr. Satya Das DH ER, Ms. Sweta Upadhayay DH CSR and R&R, Mr. Rajendra Bhoi , Mr. Saroj Kumar Department of Horticulture. The event was adorned andattended by Government officials from Mission Skahti, Odisha Livelihood Mission, Block Development Officer, NGO partners Swadheen Ekta Sangathan. Senior Management from Aditya Aluminium, Aditya Employees attended the event as part of Employee Engagement and Volunteerism initiative.Aditya Aluminium is thankful to MBKs, CRPs under ICDS for support in making the event Successful.
Project SAKSHAM is Aditya Aluminium’s Women Empowerment Initiative. Aditya Aluminium under its CSR is closely working with SHGs in the 6 Gram Panchayat of Rengali Block. There are 1500 women associated through 140 Mission Shakti SHGs who have been adopted by Aditya Aluminium and are being supported through capacity building, training, Income Generation Activity backward forward linkage, financial inclusion and helping them avail social security. The women entrepreneurs are involved in Mushroom, Turmeric, Hand Wash, Phenyl making, Snacks items, Mixture Namkeen making among many other Income Generation activities. The journey started in 2017 when Aditya Aluminium commnced its CSR intervention in the villages. The start was tiny step of reaching to the SHGs attending their meeting and providing them assistance in their small income generation activities. Slowly and steadily SHGs started joining hands with Aditya and Aditya Aluminium in turn join hands with Mission Shakti, OLM and ICDS ORMAS line departments working for common goal of women empowerment under various central state government schemes. Bomoloi is today hub of Mushroom growers. Everywhere mushroom is taken as income generation activity. So what is special about Bomoloi! In Bomoloi GP one SHG woman started in 2019 with 20 beds and today more than 25 women are doing 3500 plus beds without input support from Aditya. They invest their fund and earn profit. Aditya Aluminium plays catalyst in capacity building, backward forward linkage, and market support.