Event Name : Gandhi Jayanti Celebrations
Event Date : 28/9/2020 to 3/10/2020
Event Venue : Microsoft Teams and Facebook
Faculty Coordinator : Dr Abhijeet Kaiwade, Ms Bindiya Rangwani, Ms Vaishali Patil, Dr. Smita Iyer.

Objectives:
1. To sensitize SVIMS students about Gandhian Thoughts on Women Empowerment.
2. To apprise SVIMS students about the current issues and challenges pertaining to Women Empowerment.
3. To expose students to the benefits of relaxing facial yoga.
4. To equip students with vocational skills like chocolate, cake making etc.
5. To explore the health benefits of healthy food options for snacking.

Summary:
List of activities conducted:
1. Webinar on “Empowering Women through Education” 1/10/2020 Dr. Smita Iyer
2. Vocational Skill Development and
- Chocolate making 1/10/2020
- Cake making 3/10/2020 Dr. Abhijeet Kaiwade & Dr. Smita Iyer
3. Yoga for relaxation 1/10/2020 Ms. Bindiya Rangwani
4. Good Food Good Health 1/10/2020 Ms. Vaishali Patil & Ms. Bindiya Rangwani
5. Tree Plantation and Terrace Gardening 28/9/2020 Dr. Abhijeet Kaiwade
6. COVID19 Sanitization 3/10/2020 Dr. Abhijeet Kaiwade & Dr. Smita Iyer

Details of the Activities:
1. Webinar on “Empowering Women through Education”:
“There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.” Kofi Annan Sadhu Vaswani Institute of Management Studies for Girls has worked on living the quote of Mr. Kofi Annan and this time has organised a webinar on “Empowering Women through Education” on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, [1st October 2020, from 11am to 12:30pm.] The event started off with Ms Harshali Chandgadkar’s talk on Gandhian thoughts on Women Empowerment. Mr. Kanav Chavan, Founder of YUG Foundation, an NGO which works for Women Hygiene and Women Empowerment after introducing YUG Foundation and its work in the field of menstrual health and safety, focused on how important this issue was from the perspective of empowering girls with education, as mensuration was a major reason for school dropouts. His take on empowering women by first educating men towards their responsibilities and also the need for women to become sensitive towards other women was a fresh perspective towards dealing with the issue. He emphasized on the need to equalize chores at home first by not tagging men’s contribution as an occasional ‘help’, but making it a habit. His talk was very refreshing as he was representing the ‘men’ in ‘women’, striving towards empowering women. The talk was followed by Dr. B H Nanwani’s address which focussed majorly on strengthening the will of girls to march towards their dreams and make them a reality. She appreciated Mr. Kanav Chavan on the work accomplished by YUG foundation. The floor was then opened for an intriguing Q and A session followed by a vote of thanks by Dr. Smita Iyer.

2. Vocational Skill Development:
On 1st October 2020, under the vocational skill development program, Dr. Smita Iyer took a video session on how to make commercially viable chocolates and coho-dip-cookies at home. She gave ideas to flavor the chocolates along with the costing per chocolate. She explained that with all the festivals lined up, chocolate selling could be a lucrative option for the SVIMS students to enter into a small business.
This was followed by a session on cake and muffin making by Ms. Sonal Bahgwat, Ms. Kaveri Bidkar and Manasi Jadhav, MBA batch 2018-2020 and MBA batch 2019-2021 students. Both the students are budding entrepreneurs who have started commercializing their culinary skills during the pandemic, taking the advantage of the wave for home cooked food in the market.

3. Yoga for Relaxation:
The day began with a relaxing session on facial yoga by the endurance enthusiast Faculty member of SVIMS, Ms. Bindiya Rangawani. She took the students through a journey of a peaceful trance of mental and beauty relaxation. The half an hour session not just relaxed the participants but also educated them on the importance of practicing yoga in one’s life for better quality of life.

4. Good Food Good Health:
The importance of good food in one’s life cannot be replaced by the riches of the world. SVIMS on 1st October 2020, organized a session on Good Food Goof Health by its faculty members, Ms. Vaishali Patil and Ms. Bindiya Rangwani. They shared the importance good and healthy food in life. To make it a practice they taught students the recipe of Oat-Dry Fruit Ladoo. The students took away the learning- that a healthy food item as oat could be made into a mouthwatering ladoo and could be dressed with chocolate to make it tempting for both young and old.

5. Tree Plantation drive and Terrace Gardening:
Sadhu Vaswani Institute of Management Studies for Girls Pune celebrated Gandhi Jayanti by planting trees. Dr. B.H. Nanwani (Director) along with Students, faculty members and administrative staff participated in this ‘Tree Plantation’ drive, on 28th September 2020, at Sadhu Vaswani Gurukul, Manjari, Pune, the staff of SVIMS have planted 25 saplings and students sowed seeds, Planted saplings at their respective residences. Students of MBA batch 2019-2021 took Virtual (Microsoft teams) participation in organizing this event due to pandemic. Students of SVIMS did not limit themselves to the online tree plantation derive, but actively participated in creating awareness videos terrace gardening. Ms. Apoorva Ohol, MBA batch 2019-2021, came up with videos on the process of terrace gardening and also shared her love for gardening by sharing her knowhow on usage of gardening tools and equipment’s. These videos were put up on the institute Facebook page.

6. COVID 19 Sanitization:
To raise awareness about COVID 19 sanitization for maintaining hygiene and protection form the virus, the students of MBA Batch 2018-2020, HR specialization came together to make awareness videos. These awareness videos focused on sanitization techniques, mask making, mask usage techniques and some home remedies to increase immunity of one self against the virus.