Activity 7 Group Discussions on Strategies of Empowerment • • • • Divide the participants into five equal groups, Give instructions to participate to join with those who spoke less during the workshop and it will be more productive to make small groups through it. Distribute the five sections called welfare ,approach, access, conscientisation, participation and control among the five groups. Give participants 20 minutes to discuss the following questions which are related to each section. • • Questions related to Welfare  What sort of welfare does your group need ?  Name welfare services received by you so far ?  What are the welfare services not received by you?  How can you get them?  What are the strategies to get them ?  How to empower women through welfare services ? For example give the following 4 questions to the group that received the specific topics. Questions related “Access”. 1. What are the resources, opportunities and freedom that you think will help you to arrive at a suitable access? 2. What are the resources and opportunities you will receive? 3. What are the resources that you have not received? 4. How can you access them? What are the strategies for accessing them? 5. How are women empowered by access to resources and opportunities. Questions related to “Conscientisation” 1. What is the knowledge that you think is required to get a proper understanding of an analytical knowledge in regard to the status of women or a situation in which a mother undergoes suffering. 2. (Eg. Patriarchy, Women’s rights) 3. What are the topics about which you have an understanding / knowledge (Eg. Concept of gender, Integration of men and women into the society) 4. What are the sections about which you think that you have no proper understanding? How can you get it ? What are the methodologies for that? (Eg. Group discussions, workshops, handouts) 5. How can women be empowered by getting a precise knowledge on the status of women’s lives? 57