Camera can give wings to courage,” Minister for Woman and Child Development Maya Singh, said while speaking to a group of adolescent girls and supervisor who were from 16 districts, which have Sabla programme and are part of photography training programme being held at State Museum in Bhopal.
The programme is being conducted by Department of women and child development and UNICEF. She said that empowering adolescent girls can help bring the change in the society.
This is four-day training programme, in which 32 girls from 16 districts of Jhabua, Tikamgarh, Rajgarh, Betul, Rewa, balaghta, Seoni, Sagar, Sheopur, Bhind, Neemuch, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Sidhi, Damoh, and Gwalior are participating. In the training programme participants were given cameras by UNICEF, Department of Women and Child Development and MPAGRO.
Speaking at the meet Principal Secretary for Women and Child Development said that empowering adolescent girls can go a long way in making a change, and they can also provide feedback to the State Schemes. Commissioner Women and Child Development Pushplata Singh spoke about schemes of Madhya Pradesh Government on adolescent girls. Manish Mathur, Programme Manager UNICEF, said picture speaks thousand words and power of picture can be used to convey views of children which UNICEF encourages.
Trevor Clark, Chief UNICEF Madhya Pradesh later in day interacted with adolescents girls said that you as a group and individual can make a change. Pictures are powerful and with Power of camera you can help make a difference to world around you.
Anil Gulati UNICEF Communication Specialist and a resource person conducted the programme along with Nishant Kapoor, Prakash Hatvlane, and Purnendu guiding the participants on photography and its basics. Rajpal Kaur Additional Director Women and Child Development and Akshay Srivastava Joint Director Women and Child Development were also present to speak during the function.