Nurturing leadership

Searching for leaders among the women of Gulabgarh. We need women (and girls) with leadership skills, who can help bring more women on board, offering them inspiration through their own acquired skills and progress. Leadership potential is there; it's just a matter of harvesting it and then sharing the fruits.

Not a Country for Women

A recent Spanish documentary entitled "Not a Country for Women," portrays women's role in Indian society and offers horrifying testimonies of what too many women in India are forced to suffer every day. 

Click here to listen to a report (in Spanish) on the radio station Cadena Ser. 

We agree that this country is full of lights and shadows and, as in the words of one of the commentators, we believe that "India has started to follow a course of undoubtable modernization and of gender equality and which will be unstoppable. It is a country that has begun to move forward and it has begun to move forward with women of resilience." (min 37:00)

Red tape

I always remember the phrase a friend of mine used to say about India: “In India you'll need to wait patiently at many places for things to follow their due course.  So when you travel there, be sure to take a thick book with you so that you can just sit quietly and read while you wait." I'm sure that, among other things, he was referring to bureaucracy; in that case, I know he could say the same about many other countries, including Spain.

All this talk is here because after several years, our project is still awaiting a reply regarding our registration process. We're keeping our fingers and toes crossed because we so look forward to the positive changes and opportunities that having that official recognition by the Indian government would surely bring.

Finally, we'd like to thank our readers for their patience. We realize how long it's been since we've updated our blog. Some might even have thought that our education initiative had disappeared. Well, it hasn't and we're as enthused as ever and working as hard as ever to make it a success.