College has been awarded grade ‘A’ for Cycle 2 of NAAC Accreditation.
College has been awarded grade ‘A’ for Cycle 2 of NAAC Accreditation.
Co-Convenor: Ms.Deepinder Kaur
GIRLUP (https://girlup.org/about) was founded by the UN Foundation in 2010 as an initiative to help/support UN agencies that focus on adolescent girls. The major idea is to build leadership within individual girls, including self-confidence, personal accountability
and long-term aspirations. Girls have a tremendous, often untapped power to change the world. Girl Up helps girls access their inner power to advance the skills, rights, and opportunities of girls everywhere. It is created to inspire all to join and participate in the mission of bringing a change in the lives of young girls, women around us and to generate awareness about Gender Equality, Gender Violence, Education, STEM for Social Good, Sports, etc. These programs help girls to hone their skills in community organizing, goal setting, and effective communication. Change-makers involved in the Club report noticed confidence, higher levels of civic participation, and a stronger conviction and ability to take action for global good. Girl Up envisions a world where every girl can reach her full potential.
A world where girls are empowered and our future move towards a brighter sunshine.
Girl Up Preet is a change oriented social club under a global campaign of the United Nations foundation which has been actively participating with the community to tackle and change the gender dynamics that are extremely unacceptable in today's world. Equality is what matters for us and we are working to establish a Society that gives equal representation and opportunities to people irrespective of their gender or sex. Preet came into inception when young change-oriented students of SGNDKC came together and pledged to make an impact on the world in the best way possible.
We at Preet are committed to provide support to every idea for the betterment of young girls. Girl Up Preet is a group of dedicated youth who have joined together to take action and change lives, empowering both people in their own communities and adolescent girls to rise up simultaneously.
Preet is a growing grassroots movement to create a wonderful world for these: girls to grow.We believe in equal opportunity and the idea that girls can be wondrous stars.
Preet has always been the foremost helping hand in every way possible. Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic we have maintained an active support system with the community for a better living which is adversely affected by the deadly virus. It has affected even more the women and girls of our society in many ways possible. Women make up 39 percent of global employment but account for 54 percent of overall job losses. One reason for this greater effect on women is that the virus is significantly increasing the burden of unpaid care, which is disproportionately carried by women. With this our role becomes even more crucial to extend a helping hand to the people in need in every way possible. We adopt multiple strategies to improve the condition of the women. Preet believes in training women & adolescent girls in various aspects to make them to come out of their inhibitions and to
involve in fruitful activities that make them aware of their strong standing in the society economically and otherwise too. The pandemic did restrict Preet from taking initiatives at ground level but the amount of Impact we have already created via our various online events have given us even more zeal and enthusiasm to work for the cause. Preet organised fundraising events in the past and some awareness programme with successful people in their respective fields to have a better sight for career development. Even during these trying times Preet has been able to establish better communication with the women and girls around via many ongoing virtual/online projects.
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1. Akshita Tiwari – President
2. Kasturi Iyer – Vice President
3. Radhika Chauhan – Secretary
4. Shivansh Sangwan – Treasurer
5. Manmeet Kaur – Public Relation Officer
6. Roshni Ahuja – Creative Department Head
7. Srishti Gupta – Content Department Head
8. Subhashini Neha Pandey – Administration Department Head
9. Gurbani Kaur – Events and Collaboration Department Head
10. Deepali Vigh – Research Department Head
And 10+ young leaders
Date (8th March 2021) and Venue (Instagram)
Girl Up Preet organized its first event of the weeklong celebration of International Women’s Day that is Break the taboo Day. It was an online campaign that was initiated with the motive of providing women a stage to bring about their stories about the taboos they had dealt with and have fought well against them. They were required to record a video of 15 seconds telling how they have crushed any gender-based taboo in the society and got a chance to be featured on our page.
• Group Discussion on Gender Discrimination
Date (9th March 2021) and Venue (Google Meet) Girl Up Preet under the aegis of IQAC, organized an interesting Student curated Group Discussion as a part of Weeklong Celebration on International Women's Day. The discussion addressed the sensitive topic Gender Discrimination. People were required to share their experiences wherein they have been subjected to discrimination, stereotyped and were oppressed because of their gender and which can cause change or awareness among more people.
•Movie Discussion
Date (10th March 2021) and Venue (Zoom)
Girl Up Preet organized it's third day of week long celebration of International Women's Day with a fundraiser event wherein we showed people a movie, SONI and then there was a competition regarding the storyline of the same. SONI, a young policewoman in Delhi was working to address the growing crisis of violent crimes against women but suffers significant professional and personal setbacks. After a fruitful discussion of an intellectual movie, participants were needed to elaborate about their experience, and the best write ups got a chance to be featured on our page.
• Talk Session
Date (11th March 2021) and Venue (Google Meet)
For a good ending to our fulfilled week, we had two amazing people with us, Ms. Prema Sridevi ma'am, an Indian journalist who was associated with The Times Group for 12 years until 2016, becoming News Editor of its English news channel Times Now, she joined Republic TV in 2017 as editor for news and special projects, and resigned in 2019 to start her own independent news media venture and Ms. Aditi Arora, Country Manager for India, Girl Up Campaign, and has previously worked on projects related to gender, health, and child protection including working for women in land mine affected countries of DRC and Afghanistan. She has spoken at various platforms on women and intersecting issues including mental health as wells as capitalization of social movements. It was a great evening attending two sessions packed with awareness, empowerment, wisdom and a lot of motivation.
❖ YOU MATTER
Date (5th June 2021) and Venue (Google Meet)
Girl Up Preet organized a heartwarming session with Ms. Rachel Alice, MA Psychology, AUD, a mental health professional and has worked in the capacity of a researcher, volunteer and counsellor with various hospitals, clinics, ngos and other organizations. She has been a former delegate at Harvard US-India Initiative '21. She has presented her research on 'Mental Health of Young Adults living with their families during the pandemic' in the 'International Conference on Solution Focused Practices' and is currently working on a qualitative research on the experiences of children during the pandemic. The event curated with the thought of helping people who find it difficult to manage things financially, mentally because of the pandemic and how to deal well with the depression, anxiety and trauma during tough times.
❖ Financial Literacy Workshop
Date (30th July 2021) and Venue (Google Meet)
GirlUp Preet organised a wholesome webinar on Financial Literacy in collaboration with Be.artsy. The session was facilitated by Shikha Mittal, Founder and Director of Be.artsy. The webinar aimed on letting everyone know basic financial concepts, how to manage personal finances and concepts like inflation, investments and saving. There were 90+ candidates who joined this webinar. The webinar basically focused on how to manage funds in an adequate manner as Covid-19 has told each one of us the importance of money. We never know when and how much funds we need the very next moment. So, we were told various initiatives that can be taken now and will help us in our crucial period. Many of the youngsters joined the webinar and were planning to study abroad for the further studies. So, the main answer regarding that was we need to think of future from now only or else we will either have to sacrifice our dreams or we will get in trouble.
Some of our online Events happening over Social Media
➢ #uncagedsunday
Uncaged Sunday, an awareness series initiated by GirlUp Preet on 24th January on the occasion of National girl child day.
Our aim with this series was to spread awareness about the gender based discrimination that women face in our society. We introduced everyone to the strong feminist leaders like, Savitribai Phule and Kamini Roy who have worked to change the mindset of people towards women and broke all stereotypes and leads of oppression over women.
Both, Savitribai Phule and Kamini Roy are our inspiration and were feature of uncaged sunday series. Being a feminist and an anti-caste discrimination activist, Savitribai went through a lot to bring up the
much needed reform that was education for girls and women’s rights. On the other-hand, kamini as well was a staunch feminist who championed causes she believed in, helped advanced feminism in india.
➢ Voice Out Women
We at GirlUp Preet initiated a series of Voice Out Women, wherein women talk about the thoughts and feelings they have towards the whole issue of discrimination on every step they take. Rather it be patriarchy or masculine and feminine, there a lot of double standards created by the society which needed to be overlooked. Women aren't the only ones who suffer because of patriarchy. It harms men too. By shaming men for being sensitive to saying that they are not man enough if they show their feelings, patriarchy doesn't help anyone, not the victim, and certainly not the perpetrator. From seeing the women in your house always taking care of the household duties to being witness to catcalling by men who you look up to - the seeds of sexist behaviour are sown right from childhood. Despite some progress, one has to accept the fact that the change has been slow and more needs to be done. Talk about marriage or precautions, womens are always asked to sacrifice, not any more, there are a lot of myths created about all of such things which need to be banned and Preet is always there to take the initiative.
➢ PRIDE MONTH
In many parts of the world, June is the ‘Gay Pride Month’, dedicated to celebrating the LGBTQ community and their struggle against discrimination and social ostracization. We, at Girl Up Preet took the initiative to bring forth Pride Literacy Month. We covered different aspects of Pride community such as, pride flag, Myths and facts, Section 377 and so on.
Girl Up Preet celebrated pride month in a full-fledged manner. We aimed to educate people more and more about LGBTQIA+ community. Last but not the least, lawyers Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju were featured and were the ones that stood against all the odds and decriminalised
homosexuality.
➢TOKYO OLYMPIC
A wonderful and mesmerising initiative taken by GirlUp Preet to
celebrate women in sports. Under this initiative, we highlighted women that participated in Tokyo Olympics, 2020 and made our nation proud.
We understand that women in sports are only celebrated when they bring laurels.
Sports, undoubtedly is the most important socio-cultural learning experience that should be afforded by women too, that’s why we, at girlup preet brought forward the most charismatic women across the country who not only made us proud but also inspired every girl of our country. Women have excelled in every week whether it is household chores or Sports.
➢ THE WOMEN BULLETIN
To bring in some positivity and motivation, Girl Up Preet has started their bulletin in which
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