tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61279507835377268422012-01-21T10:37:03.651-08:00Shakti - Stop Female Foeticide - Empower the Girl ChildFounded and spearheaded by a contemporary mystic master, Anandmurti Gurumaa, SHAKTI is a wake up call to combat the heinous practices of female foeticide, infanticide and the brutalities afflicted on the girl child in India.
SHAKTI aims at empowering the girl child, by providing financial support to the daughters of widows and handicapped parents, war martyrs to complete their education up to 12th standard.
THE MOTTO: SAVE GIRLS! EMPOWER GIRLS!saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-6351479257618308512010-03-07T00:17:00.000-08:002010-03-07T00:54:27.899-08:00Shakti's Fund Raising Parachute Jump“Empowering girls with education today to save the daughters of tomorrow”Shakti U.K.Presents Fund Raising Parachute Jump Jumping to raise £ 15,000 to educate 150 Girls in need on March 28th, Headcorn Airfield, MaidstoneThis initiative is in continuation to the fund raising campaign held to mark the 10th year celebration of Shakti in 2009. In this drive, with the support of enthusiastic people saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-79146542239816875172009-10-26T22:54:00.000-07:002009-10-26T23:10:23.427-07:00Shakti’s 10th year celebration continues...<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-21950168052125446382009-03-15T03:59:00.000-07:002009-03-15T04:05:12.930-07:00Expression of Stark RealityWoman is an embodiment of love, grace, and compassion. She creates, she nurtures, she supports, she loves, and she is A POWER HOUSE!!! This bulletin aims to bring forth AWARENESS into the atrocities that are being committed against the woman and her unborn girl child. Please read on……. Girl fetuses/babies are being killed in record numbers in India (and abroad). They want boys; but when they saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-66285742686513983692008-10-03T05:00:00.000-07:002008-10-03T05:07:20.584-07:00Anandmurti Gurumaa's 'Shakti' offers analytical synthesis of social evilsSource: Tribune, Chandigarh, September 29 - By S.D. Sharma"With the spiritual wisdom and social ethics reigning supreme, the Vedic age certainly was the golden era of the Indian civilisation which has been influencing the life of the contingent much after its antiquity." Asserted the spiritual guru Anandmurti Gurumaa here today. All religions teach and propound the philosophy of humanism, mutual saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-37381431994681223162008-09-29T01:54:00.000-07:002008-09-29T02:12:14.717-07:00The wind beneath my WINGSSource - Indian Express, Chandigarh - Sheveta Bhatia The turmoil is evident. Both inside and outside. Blasts creating an unrest nationally, the want for power forming its nest of insecurity in the mind and the unjust social pressures eating up the system...amidst the chaos, we've neglected the basic: "The plight of the building blocks - women, the today and tomorrow of our society," says saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-31641319386204003262008-09-27T08:10:00.000-07:002008-09-29T02:00:14.965-07:00Shakti Dinner & Dance 2008 Above is the vivid collection of pictures reminicising the Shakti Dance & Dinner program. Under the dynamic guidance of Anandmurti Gurumaa, Shakti Dinner & Dance was organised by an enthusiastic group based in London, U.K. to raise funds for the education of under privileged girls. The main theme of the program was to propagate the message of Shakti - Empower Girls to become self reliant and saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-79098314086187923142008-09-25T04:06:00.000-07:002008-09-25T04:11:53.749-07:00A step toward welfare of the girl childIndia to provide insurance, cash incentives for girl-childThe Ministry for Women and Child Development is finalising a scheme to provide insurance cover for every girl-child from a below the poverty line (BPL) family, as incentive for bringing her up and providing her with good education and healthcareThe Indian government is floating a scheme which will give up to Rs 1.4 lakh each to families saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-90778928301586484212008-02-06T07:56:00.000-08:002008-02-06T08:02:33.283-08:00A girl is never less than a boyBy Vanshika GabaThe day I was born,I was considered a storm, which came into my family's life,and the one to blame was my father's wife,yes she was my mother who acted as my cover,b'coz i was not a boy, so, they treated me as a toy,"we don't want her" they said to the nurse, as for them I was a curse,my mother went through the pain, but all was in wain,but I was the child of the god,so I was saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-80740214287151418782007-11-10T23:26:00.000-08:002008-02-06T08:03:36.387-08:00Living in 2007 is also like living in 1800SHAKTI-THE POWERBy Kamiya DusejaThe word “Shakti” itself defines the meaning of the word. Shakti is the symbol of a women i.e. power of the women. Life in 21st century is also not advanced. We try to imitate and follow the western culture but we are still not advanced. Just by wearing short clothes, Denims, Eating Low-cal food does not prove us to be advanced. We have to increase our mental saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-85855677942258826322007-08-13T10:28:00.000-07:002007-08-13T10:52:14.942-07:00Poetic expression of ShaktiThis lovely poem is shared with us by Aakriti Malhotra, who participated in the recent youth shivir held at Gurumaa Ashram. This beautiful expression portrays the feelings of a girl for another girl who is not given the chance to live. Save girls! Save girls!They are like precious pearls.They are home makers and not home takers.Girls! It’s time you learn to be independent and no more saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-55666226818631903632007-06-16T10:37:00.000-07:002007-06-16T11:08:24.601-07:00The saga of femicide continues...If you think female foeticide is not practiced any more,THINK AGAIN!NDTV.com Thursday, June 14, 2007 (Gurgaon)Skeletons of SEVEN female foetuses were found in Pataudi (near Gurgaon), dug up from the holes in the ground close by a nursing home.Click here to know moreThis is no less than any brutal barbarous act. And SHAKTI is a voice against this brutality. Help SHAKTI combat this ruthlessness andsaakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-45615714886179446672007-06-10T10:04:00.000-07:002007-06-10T10:14:34.740-07:00Girls are a matter of ECONOMICSSource: TIMES NEWS NETWORK10 Jun, 2007Every day in India, 2,000 female infants are killed in the womb.Urmila Bendre, adviser (gender and community), UNFPA, India, said, “Sex ratio at birth is falling in all states. Punjab has lower sex ratio due to sex-selective abortions. Even parts of Delhi show a fall in ratio — 850 females for every 1,000 males. It’s a matter of economics to the family as saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-28051933831535129052007-05-29T04:31:00.000-07:002007-06-10T09:51:12.727-07:00Height of Cruelty...What is the future of society that dumpsthe CREATOR OF LIFE in well???Come on..Wake up Now! If not now then when?SAVE THE GIRL CHILD! EMPOWER THE GIRL CHILD!STOP FEMALE FOETICIDE!A CLARION CALLBYANANDMURTI GURUMAAComment by Anu... It is indeed disgusting to see this treatment given to the girl child even before she is born. I feel this is a serious lack of education (not literacy) in our country.saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-55713385059742856242007-05-15T10:55:00.000-07:002007-06-10T09:57:25.708-07:00We are at RISK!Two million foetuses are killed every year through abortion, simply because they are female. - BBC NewsJust a sneak peek into the gravity of the imbalance created in the society. Here is the snapshot of the drastic decline in the number of girls as per census 1991-2001 in Haryana, one of the states where the crime of female foeticide is widely practiced. What you see in red shows that the number saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-43532133638749449012007-05-12T18:55:00.000-07:002007-06-10T10:03:25.453-07:00A Glimpse of RealityBy Anandmurti GurumaaWoman - An embodiment of love & compassionWoman is an embodiment of love, grace, and compassion; understanding, balanced, sharp, witty, beautiful, and artistic. We can go on and on and still the essence of woman hood will be difficult to define. She creates, she nurtures, she supports, she loves, and she is a power house! But it is extremely agonizing to see her being saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-14679009297861427472007-05-08T05:22:00.000-07:002007-05-29T13:09:17.306-07:00SHAKTI CHARITY FUNCTION By Maggie MaviShakti Charity EveningVenue : Walsall, UKDate: 12th July 2006Time: 6 – 10 pmI had been inspired to arrange a Shakti Charity Function and was given this opportunity, only after meeting Her Holiness Anandmurti Gurumaa, in April 2006. I had always thought, it was very important to educate females as they raise the standards of the society. Now I had the perfect opportunity to do saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-21336763540265368222007-04-30T01:33:00.000-07:002007-05-29T11:08:47.304-07:00HELP this WORTHY cause and bring CHANGEcomment by Maggie MaviShakti stands as symbol of power: power to generate, to sustain and to protect. Being an embodiment of Shakti, every woman is bestowed with the power to create life. This programme aims at providing a sound education to the girl, making her self-reliant and confident. So that she can emerge as a stronger individual , independent enough to care for herself and strong enough saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-9825392370141138482007-04-08T06:15:00.000-07:002007-05-29T11:07:07.503-07:00SHAKTI-Empowering the girl childSHAKTI aims at empowering the girl child, by providing financial support to the daughters of widows and handicapped parents, war martyrs to complete their education up to 12th standard. It has been actively providing academic scholarship to the girls in need with 500+ girls already taken under the SHAKTI project. This is just a beginning as there are many more to be catered to, to be inspired to saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127950783537726842.post-19227218924195497092007-04-08T06:00:00.001-07:002007-05-29T11:05:54.659-07:00SHAKTI personified – 21st century woman mystic, Anandmurti Gurumaa A powerhouse of love, wisdom, truth, and the ultimate blossoming of woman, Anandmurti Gurumaa is a source of inspiration for one and all. She says, ‘every woman is an embodiment of Shakti-the power and must realize this.’ She has been strongly raising her voice against the ill-treatment of girl child and creating a new climate where girl child can blossom to her ultimate self. SHAKTI is one of saakshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757914725969375370noreply@blogger.com2