Women power will drive a first-of-its-kind cafeteria in Taj city soon. To be run by acid attack survivors and christened as ‘Café Sheroes Hangout’, the outlet is being supported by the organisation ‘Stop Acid Attack’, which hopes to launch the cafe in the first week of October before taking the concept to Delhi. “Raising funds repeatedly to help acid attack survivors was turning out to be a cumbersome exercise and thus we thought of making these people self dependent through this idea,” stated Aseem Trivedi, who shot to fame with his controversial political cartoons against corruption. “Most of these survivors often do not get married and thus bringing in a sense of self reliance in them is important so that they find a place in the mainstream. With women power running these cafés, we thought of replacing the word ‘heroes’ with ‘sheroes’ and thus these outlets are to be named Cafe Sheroes Hangouts,” said Aseem Trivedi from ‘Stop Acid Attack’. On Friday, the group from this organisation was at the venue on Fatehabad Road, planning the installation of the café and to assist ‘Rangsaaz’ – a group of activists expressing their views through their paintings. “The idea is to have graffiti on the interior and exterior walls suiting the very concept behind #café run by acid attack victims,” explained Alok Dixit, activist #StopAcidAttacks Read More : bit.ly/SheroHT Like us and #share our page with friends : facebook/pages/Sheroes-Hangout/593003917488083
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 11:03:38 +0000
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