Dear MEL
Topic Readers,
Digital tool
teaches Indian boys about gender equality
Appealing the
rights of women by marching the streets around the world is one way to get
attentions to the problem. However, gender inequality cannot be solved unless the
superior side learns why it is a problem. So how about educating young men and boys
about the issue?
That’s what the
Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ), a New Delhi-based charity, has
been doing in northern India where there is the largest gender gap in youth
literacy rates and the second-highest number of domestic and sexual violence
cases in the subcontinent. They offer a toll-free number for young men and boys
to listen to short programs about sexual and gender topics in an engaging way
by their mobile phones. Among the boys who listened and learned the equality
and education for mutual happiness, some started helping their mothers and
sisters at home and others encouraged their sisters to continue studying.
It sounds
like a long way to reach the goal but unless the root of the issue is
understood by both genders, the problem will never be solved.
Enjoy reading
and learning about this grass-roots and breakthrough initiative in conservative
India.
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