Some Setrawa impressions

This morning Mary and me went to Setrawa project with Ms. Lillian, Ms. Smeeta and Ms. Shipra from Foundation of Sustainable Development (FSD) branch in Jodhpur, we invited our guest for a field visit of Setrawa Project. Some pictures are from our visit to Setrawa. It was great to talk more and know the Setrawa project girls, now we have particpants coming from distance of 12 kilometers from Sointra Village and the word is spreading, girls looked very confident and were happy to be at the project and it is also very nice to know more people in NON profit organisation department. The ladies from FSD were very impressed.

There has been a sand storm and rain, shade outside the rooms which looks like a tent flew away, the roof from house was leaking, volunteers or we didn't expect this non monsoon rain and early sand storm, usualy sand storms are active around mid April, May and June.

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"Women caught two Romeos!!!!"

On the way back from the village, we saw 4 men in a car drinking and disturbing women on the street, we heard them passing nasty comments on the girls and creating problems for the pedestrian women and girls around the women college. For some time I was noticing them doing it and it was tough for me to see the "eve teasing" and I couldn't help calling the police right away, now until the police came we had to stop this drunk men, now Smeeta, the director of FSD in Jodhpur, Shipra, Mary and I jumped out of our car which we parked just in front of their car to stop them drive off and got them out of their car, Smeeta slapped two of them, I took the car keys out, Mary and Shipra were shouting at them and we had about 200 witnesses. Finally in 15 minutes of arguments with this men, police turned up and the newspaper showed up and we managed to get 2 guys out of 4 taken to the police station, 2 ran off when police came. We joined these men to the police station, made sure medical examination was set and the guys were behind bars for this night. Moral of the story: the perverts got their lesson and we came back home happy and made a little difference in the safety of women in Urban areas.

Next days newspaper article from the guys we took to the police Station. Headline: "Women caught two Romeos!!!!" One information on the newspaper is not very correct where they wrote that Mary is volunteering from FSD. The journalist called and appologised.