The past few weeks have been very busy. Therefore they delay in uploading the events taking place in MASUM.

• The three activists co-ordinating the Children's programmes - Shrikant, Raju and Madhuri have been holding meetings with the Bal Panchayat members of Malshiras and Tekavdi, Waghapur and Vanpuri and Naigaon, Pargaon, Piserve and Mavdi respectively to review tha work being done and to address problems being faced by these "child activists" in their villages. It has also been decided that all the Bal Panchayat committee members will be visiting the local Gram Oanchayata to learn and observe how these function.
• Organisational dev meet
  
• Archana visited Swati Organisation in Ahmedabad. This organisation is a part of the Aman network, a network of feminist organisations that has been working on the implementation of the PWDV Act. Archana was in Ahmedabad to conduct a two day workshop (4th and 5th Sep) on review of impementation of PWDV Act, followed by a strategy planning meeting on the 6th of September.
  
• A series of four capacity building trainings has been planned for the para-legal workers - Saathis on Chakrabhed - a Domestic Violence intervention model. As a part of the series, a training was held on the 11th and 12th of September which was conducted by Manisha tai and Archana.
• Several organisations working on gender issues have been meeting to increase men's involvement in gender equality. A meeting of organisations working for the same in Maharashtra was held in MASUM on 12th Sept and it was decided that for the Violence Against Women fortnight, celebrated from the 25th November to the 10th December - the theme would be men's involvement in implementation of PWDV Act.
  
• A preparatory meeting of the second Maharashtra Mahila Arogya Hak Parishad was held in MASUM on the 13th of September.
  
• Audit of Streedhan accounts is also in progress.
• A 5 day training of Pre-shhool teachers begins today (16th Sept) in Hadapsar.