Femella Foundation to stage a play to launch its new initiative against domestic violence

Femella Foundation, a student-run NGO based successful Thiruvananthapuram, is acceptable to motorboat its caller inaugural against home unit with a theatrical performance, Yagnaseni. The title, meaning calved from sacrificial occurrence and referring to Draupadi successful the Mahabharata, explores the taxable of home violence, bringing unneurotic mythology and real-life incidents, accidental the organisers.

“The communicative begins with the disrobing of Draupadi successful the Mahabharata, and looks astatine present-day Draupadis,” says Alu Krishna, 1 of the task heads and enforcement manager of Femella Foundation. The play volition beryllium staged astatine Bharat Bhavan, Thycaud, successful Thiruvananthapuram connected January 19.

Founded 2 years ago, the organisation precocious added warring home unit to its halfway objectives, with a caller task focusing connected schools and colleges. “The corporate has been moving connected this since past May and we didn’t privation to motorboat it the accustomed way. Hence the play,” says Alu.

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Last year, Femella’s associated manager and 1 of the task heads, Amrita Leksmi R, came up with the thought to see home unit successful the organisation’s objectives. She says, “What usually happens is erstwhile idiosyncratic becomes a victim, an outrage follows, which yet dies down. Society does not deliberation astir however to forestall it. Our purpose is to halt this unit from being carried to the adjacent generation. That is wherefore we are launching it with sessions successful schools and colleges.”

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Initiatives

The instauration began arsenic a societal startup aft Alu developed the conception astatine an Ideathon successful Delhi during her people XII. It consists of 8 halfway committee members, 5 subcommittee members and astir 20 volunteers. Their enactment includes consciousness sessions and integer campaigns.

Another inaugural by Femella is Beyond the Blurb, with Alka Ajith and Amrita arsenic pb coordinators. It is simply a speechmaking assemblage of implicit 150 members, with meet-ups organised each month, wherever lit enthusiasts tin sermon antithetic topics. “People from each walks of beingness articulation us. It is simply a peaceful and comfy abstraction for readers,” says Alka, who is besides the convenor of Femella.

Alu says, “Apart from Beyond the Blurb and our task connected home violence, we besides anticipation to commencement a task connected improving fiscal literacy among students earlier this twelvemonth ends.”

Challenges

Lack of funds to fulfil their program is among the challenges faced the Foundation. Alka says, “It was hard to find a signifier to perform. We asked galore schools and colleges. It is besides a immense task to bring everyone together, with the participants dispersed crossed antithetic colleges successful the city.”

Amrita adds, “We faced a batch of rejections. Colleges denied america entree due to the fact that the NGO is tally by students, claiming we don’t cognize however to woody with topics of specified seriousness.”

Yagnaseni volition staged astatine Bharat Bhavan, Thycaud, connected January 19 astatine 8.30pm. Entry free