'Change a life' was the theme of a discussion and dinner held at the Navnat Centre in Hayes on March 5th. The event, organised by Life Global UK and Navnat Vanik Bhagini Samaj to mark International Women’s Day, focused on how empowering women brings societal change. Among those taking part in a panel discussion were Ritula Shah, BBC Journalist, Renuka Mehta, President NVBS, CB Patel, Publisher/Editor of Asian Voice and Gujarat Samacharand Vanita Patel, MBE.
Life Global UK is a charity raising funds to empower women living below the poverty line in Gujarat. Life Global is working with its partner organisation, Project Life, Rajkot, to provide skills and vocational training for marginalised women, in everything from computing and budgeting to self defence and gender equality. 7,600 women living in rural villages and urban slums in Gujarat have been trained by Project life, since the foundation, in 2008, of the Life Women Empowerment Centre in Ahemdabad and Junaghad. The aim is to give the women the skills to start a business or earn an income.
Life Global Trustee and Chair, Bina Sanghvi said, “We raised over £80,000 and this will help towards enriching the lives of over 400 below the poverty line women to allow them to be leaders of their own lives."
