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A WORKSHOP
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ADOLESCENT GIRLS
JANUARY 16th AND 17th, 1999
SPONSORED BY
ROTARY CLUB OF R.T. NAGAR, BANGALORE
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YOU ARE HOME T© OVER 400 MILLION
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YOUR POPULATION IS YOUNG WITH
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A COUNTRY PROUD OF ITS CUSTOMS AND
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A COUNTRY ACKNOWLEDGED FOR ITS
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For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
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The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you
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For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is
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For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you
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There are those who give little of the much which they have — and they
give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts
unwholesome.
And there are those who have little and give it all.
These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is
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The word adolescence means to “grow”. It lies somewhere between childhood
and adulthood - a territory unknown. It is a period of rapid physical, emotional
and social growth. It is the time when a search for an identity starts. Who am I?
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The girl child in India has not yet been given an equal status and experiences
discrimination throughout her life with the existing socio-cultural practices making
it difficult for her to overcome her problems. A strong gender bias is entrenched
in our heritage. From the day of her birth the girl child is viewed as a burden and
a liability. Investments made in her, the family feels, will get no returns. Instead
she has to be endowed with a dowry draining family resources. Girls therefore
often grow up feeling inferior and subservient. Her life is filled with self sacrifice.
She becomes a prisoner of her gender unable to retaliate against the injustices.
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Books referred to:
1) The Country report, 4th world conference on women, Beijing 1995.
2) The state program of action for the child, Govt, of Karnataka.
3) The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran.
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