Mangaluru: Sahodaya Bethany Social Service Trust celebrates Women’s Day


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Mangaluru, 20 Mar 2018: Sahodaya Bethany Social Service Trust, Bendore, here, in collaboration with Sahodaya Bethany Mahila Okkoota organized International Women’s Day celebration at St Raymond’s auditorium, on March 17.

 

 The programme was presided by Sr Shanthi Priya, the director of Sahodaya and secretary of Bethany Social Service Trust.

 

Mangaluru south MLA J R Lobo was the chief guest.

 

 

Kusuma H Devadiga, proprietor of Sri Vinayaka Garments inaugurated the function.

 

The corporator Sabitha Misquith, head constable Sujatha Shetty, Pandeshwar women police station sub-inspector Prema and woman entrepreneur Flossy Lobo were the guests of honour.

 

The day’s program commenced with a prayer by the members of SHGs.

 

Sr Michelle, programme co-ordinator of Sahodaya Bethany Social Service Trust, at the outset gave a brief history of the Foundation of Bethany Social Service Trust and Sahodaya as its wing. Its inception emerged from the vision of the Founder Servant of God RFC Mascarenhas, the Founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Little Flower of Bethany and the first four pioneers.

 

The programme was creatively inaugurated by Kusuma H Devadiga by symbolically releasing the hands of a bound woman.

 

Sahodaya, on this auspicious occasion recognized and honoured the women of valor, and grit who have excelled in life and have been a source of inspiration to other women.  

 

Kusuma H Devadiga- the proprietor of Sri Vinayaka Garments, Flossy D’Souza – the proprietor of Vishwas Home Products and Bhagya Kodikal, Sujatha Mulky, Mohini Madame, Benny D’Souza Madame and Mumtaz Porkody, five other women entrepreneurs from 5 Self Help Groups were honoured for their self-employment.

 

MLA J R Lobo was appreciated for his excellent and committed developmental and philanthropic works as the MLA of Mangaluru south constituency.

 

There after he addressed the gathering and applauded the women for their commendable contribution to the family and society and he also underscored the importance of the role of a mother in the family and in the making of a good society. Today many women have excelled in various fields and have taken leadership roles in the society particularly the women of Dakshina Kannada district. He called on them to be the role model to other women. Then he appreciated the works of Bethany Sisters and their influential leadership in empowering the women in and through their various ministries. With gratitude he recalled the love, compassion and the motherly care along with the discipline which he received from the Bethany sister teachers during his school days.

 

In her presidential address, Sr Shanthi Priya applauded the women of valor of yester years and modern day women who have achieved much in all the sectors of the society breaking the barriers of patriarchal mentality. She said that women in our country were different yesterday. They are different today and hopefully they will be different tomorrow. It’s in our hands as women. How long is it going to take for the society to understand what a woman is capable of and what she wants? Is it so difficult to treat the opposite gender equally? Isn’t it the right time that we reinterpret womanhood and give women their due?

 

Nimisha, the animator of Sahodaya proposed the vote of thanks.

 

 

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