in partnership with
Homes in the City and Bhuj Bole Che
invite you for the ONLINE screening of
AAROHAN: A CLIMATE CHANGE STORY
(Hindi with English subtitles/ 44.59 mins)
by The Hunger Project and the Environmental Defense Fund
followed by a discussion with Ashish Kothari (Kalpavriksh) and
Ruchi Yadav (THP)
Date: 24th July, 2021 and Time: 4-6 pm
Register in advance for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcO2srDktGNHUB9W3OOcSGqKdxWG6e5Uo
About the film: Kajri is a young Dalit (low caste) Sarpanch of Manihari Gram Panchayat. Dedicated and committed to her new position as a leader of her local self-government (Gram Panchayat), she struggles to deal with issues of hunger, poverty and famine in her Panchayat. Things come to head when Darshan, a young unemployed Dalit male is forced to steal from the landlord’s mansion in order to feed his children. Kajri looks deep into the reasons for chronic hunger in her village and links it to the changing climatic conditions and environmental degradation. As the Sarpanch, she feels duty bound to find a solution to these problems. Help comes to Kajri from unexpected quarters.
About the Speakers
Ashish Kothari: Founder-member, Kalpavriksh;
member, many people’s movements. Taught, Indian Institute of Public
Administration; coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy & Action
Plan, served on boards of Greenpeace International & India, ICCA
Consortium. Helps coordinate Vikalp Sangam (www.vikalpsangam.org), Global Tapestry of
Alternatives (www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org), & Radical
Ecological Democracy (www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org).
Co-author/co-editor, Churning the Earth, Alternative Futures, and Pluriverse: A
Post-Development Dictionary
Ruchi Yadav (Senior Director – Strategy and Programmes, The
Hunger Project)
Ruchi leads strategic management, programme design, policy and operations at
THP India. She also supervises the capacity building and MEL teams in the
organisation. Over a period of 14 years, she has mentored over 60 grassroots
CBOs across multiple states on issues of women’s political leadership,
adolescent girls’ empowerment, social justice, and local governance. Most
recently, she has engaged with multiple stakeholders in Asia on advancing
women’s political participation in local government institutions. Prior to
joining THP India, she worked on women’s rights and human rights issues in
South Asia and South-East Asia, with a short stint in advertising early in her
career. She is vitally interested in the intersections of gender with politics,
religion, caste, and class. Ruchi holds an MA in International Development from
the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC. In
2012, she was awarded the Yale World Fellowship.
About the Kriti Film Club: This is an educational
initiative of a not-for-profit organisation 'Kriti team'. We screen and share
documentary films on development, environment and socially relevant issues, in
an effort to positively influence mindsets and behaviour towards creating an
equitous, just and peaceful world. We also curate issue based film festivals
and organise documentary film shows online, in neighbourhoods, communities,
schools, colleges or institutions on request and otherwise. The Kriti Film Club
has been screening documentaries regularly and independently (without any
funding) in Delhi NCR since 2000, in Mumbai since 2019, and online on www.doculive.in sinch March 2020, to promote
'thought-provoking cinema'.
About HIC: Homes in the City (HIC) Programme is being implemented by five CSOs (Hunnarshala, Sahjeevan, ACT, KMVS and SETU) in the city of Bhuj. It works on a range of issues like decentralized participatory governance, slum redevelopment, participatory groundwater management, gender equity and justice, conserving ecosystems etc. with the special attention on marginalized groups like slum dwellers and informal sector workers. Several community-based organizations of women residing in informal settlements, street vendors, migrant laborers, livestock keepers constituted under the programme over the time period, are integral part of the programme.
For any queries please write to space.kriti@gmail.com
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