Women Work & Health Initiative together with the support of a group of Chartered Accountants and Engineers committed to the upliftment of society had organised a Drawing Competition amongst the girl students at their informal school for the underprivileged in Sangam Vihar. This was held on Sunday 6th May, 2012. There were 50 students in all, belonging to classes 3-9. It was a wonderful, int more...
In order to provide income generation opportunities to the women enrolled under the Micro enterprise scheme, Women Work and Health Initiative (WWHI) arranged a Training session in cooking Italian dishes. This program was conducted by Dr. Laura Pacifici and Mr. Michel who have taken an active interest in the Centre's activities. The program was, held on 05th April 2012 at Sangam V more...
Women Work & Health Initiative (WWHI) - represented by Dr. Sunita Kaistha and Amita Sahaya - visited Gothenburg University between the 7th and the 10th of November 2011 to strengthen the SIGN network (Sweden India Gender Network), which was established in June 2011.
A first step in its success has been established by the recognition of exchange between Dr more...
Amita Sahaya made a presentation to the students and faculty. The subject was: Developing Markets for Handwoven Fabrics. Present from the faculty were: Aija Lundahl Senior Lecturer and organizer of the Program, Juha Laurikainen, Head of Degree Program and Pirjo Seddiki, Principal Lecturer amongst others. It was an animated and interactive program, with th more...
WWHI along with Findia Foundation , put up their range of products at the bazaar. Beautiful hand knitted woolen mufflers and computer mittens made by the women at the WWHI Women Centre, BINDU as a part of the livelihood scheme in the slum, were for sale. Findia under the design label SARIIA DESIGN, put up luxurious stoles in a range of colours along with home linen. more...
Time magazine's Elliot Hannon spoke to Sunita Kaishta, co-director of WWHI, for the article Indian Women take Slutwalk to Delhi's Streets', which appeared on their website on Monday evening (1/08/2011). Sunita gave her insights into an often overlooked reason why sexual violence against women in the capital has increased:
"The heightened sense that women are at r more...
Photo above: Amita Sahaya, co-director at WWHI and Anna Matussek, consultant at WWHI participating at Slutwalk Delhi yesterday.
WWHI is supporting the Besharmi Morcha movement and the issues that it stands for. We believe that the Slutwalk Delhi is important because these issues, vital to ensure a society that is safe and supportive of more...
WWHI’s visit to Sweden to meet with our cooperation partners at the Department of Work Science, Gothenburg University and the two day workshop with students and academics on the subject of Gender and Work, culminated in the successful formation of the forum SIGN. This program received its initial funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Ag more...
WWHI is excited to share that a representative from the National Library of Congress (which boats holding most books in the world and is a research haven for professionals and students in the United States) has contacted us to acquire copies of our reports and publications to stock in the library. We are pleased to share our research and that of our contributing authors on Gender & Develop more...
Every year our partners from Ireland (UCDVO-University College Dublin (UCD) Volunteers Oversees) organize volunteers (students of UCD) to spend a month in Delhi and teach at our school in one of Delhi’s largest slums (Sangham Vihar). This special connection has been established for many years with the Society for Working Life, which is part of WWHI. Currently there are 4 students in Delhi worki more...
On the 6th of July 2011, WWHI representatives Amita Sahaya, Sunita Kaishta and Anna Matussek met once again with the Women’s Group of NewGen. When WWHI first met with some female employees of New Gen and gave a talk on Gender sensitivity in March 2011, the women of NewGen were inspired to form a women’s group which now meets monthly to discuss any issues regarding gender and the work more...
The lack of power and material resources, traditional gender roles and norms, stand in the way of development. Unequal power structures for women and men constitute an obstacle to sustainable growth and democratic development, hence equal opportunities for women and men to own land and assets, to earn money and to participate in working life, are essential for this process. Sustainability is cl more...
Gender & Development, A. Sahaya, S.Kaistha & V. Patel (eds.);(2011, The Women Press, Delhi)
This book seeks to publicise and share the immense work both in the fields of research and practice that is involved in carrying the debates at the International Conference on Gender & Development in the World of Work (2010, Jhansi, UP, India) forward. It advocates a sharpened, more more...