RESEARCH WORK
Contribution to research work on child sexual abuse and gender issues –
2nd International Conference on the Future of Women (14th -15th February 2019): We presented a research paper on our gender work at Sahas with adolescents for the first time at the 2nd International Future of Women Conference held at Colombo 14-15th Feb 2019. We are proud to be awarded as ‘Best Session Presenter’ for the session on gender-based violence and ‘Best Overall Presenter and Best Student’ for the conference.
2nd International Conference on Gender and Sexuality 2019, Bangkok. Thailand (3rd-4th October 2019): We presented our gender work with women in Baghpat, India at the 2nd International Conference on Gender and Sexuality 2019. The presentation brought out the narratives of rural women around gender-based violence with an emphasis on giving agency to them by providing adequate knowledge and understanding so that they can stand for themselves and say ‘No’ to Violence.
FELLOWSHIPS
Dalai Lama Fellowship, Jun 2018: Mona Yadav, Co-Founder at Sahas completed her Dalai Lama Fellowship with the closure at University of Virginia, Washington DC in June 2018 with a huge opportunity to represent our work at Sahas for the first time on a global platform.
The Pollination Project, 2017-18: Sahas was awarded with seed grant in the year 2017 and an impact grant in 2018 by The Pollination Project.
Lead India Fellowship, Feb 2018: Mona Yadav, Co-Founder at Sahas completed the Lead India Fellowship in February 2018 and became a Lead India Fellow.
CELEBRATIONS
Mind and Life Conversations with His Holiness Dalai Lama: Our co-founder Mona Yadav was selected as one of the 50 scholars across the world to participate in the “Mind and Life” Conversations with His Holiness Dalai Lama on 30th October and 1st November at his residence in Mcleodganj, India. She got the rare opportunity to ask him a question about the education system.
The question asked by Mona can be viewed in the last 5 minutes of the video, link shared below.
Her question was also included in the following article on the Dalai lama website –https://www.dalailama.com/news/2019/mind-life-conversations-first-day