‘Be Shakti’- a unique two way empowerment project
The BE SHAKTI friendship project was a collaboration initiated by Nehha Bhatnagar, Founder of Sarvam Foundation with her Shakti team and students of The Heritage School, Vasant Kunj.
The ONLINE project during lockdown was all about finding a factor of commonality between people from different social classes. It aimed towards bringing a generation together through dance, education and everything under the sun that they could talk about.
The project was introduced to girls on both sides. It was no surprise that the first thought that struck their mind was how to communicate with each other, how to behave with each other, what to talk about, and how to be comfortable?? Eventually, they started video calling each other, they met each other’s family which made the girls feel a lot better..They had daily conversations on WhatsApp. To help the girls be honest and open with each other, the mentors helped them by sending them general questions.
A pair was made which consisted of two girls, to test the progress of each pair a task was given. The task that was given, was about the common factor that the girls on both the sides had, which was dance.
While preparing the dance, the girls came so near, they had no judgements, they did what they enjoyed the most. They saw each other laughing and struggling while doing their task. It was almost as if they adopted a new sister.
This project taught the girls, that talents have no boundaries. They felt so nice after making something together, this made them realize that every human is the same despite their problems or surroundings:):)!
