Performers at the Women’s Solidarity Festival
Six years ago, Auroville
Village Action (AVAG) organized its first Women’s Solidarity Festival.
Thousands of women from AVAG’s Women’s Self-Help Groups came together in an
event that was described as unique, path-breaking and intensely motivating for
all participants. Calls were made to do it again.
Yet, funds were not
available and AVAG kept postponing. Till this year, when the Women’s Self Help
Groups decided that the event should happen and that they too would contribute
financially. And so, on July 19th, the second Women’s Solidarity Festival was
held at the grounds of Auroville’s Village Action in Irumbai village. More than
4,000 women from the region participated, some from villages as far away as 25
kilometres.
Hours before the event
began the women started flooding the compound, huge smiles on their faces,
carrying placards with the name of their Women’s Self-Help Group, each group
dressed in identical sarees. Slow...
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