On International Day of the Girl Child, PPDN continues training young girls to share their inspirational stories
~Girls from Navi Mumbai inspire others through short video stories of their success at beating the odds to access education by bridging the digital divide~
New Delhi, October 11, 2021: People Powered Digital Narratives (PPDN) is working with young girls from mar ginalized backgrounds, training them on storytelling through mobile videos. Its aim is to train and encourage more young girls to tell their inspirational stories of beating the odds to access education, through short mobile videos. On the International Day of the Girl Child, these girls have created a video inspiring other girls to tell their stories through short videos.
In the video, Guddi Gupta, Aahana Patel, Nagma Salim Siddiqui, Shraddha Gadge, and Khushi Jaiswal – all aged between 13 and 18 years and all hailing from Navi Mumbai – talk about the challenges that they surmounted to access education during the Covid-induced restrictions, from erratic internet to living in small homes in cramped neighborhoods and having to help out with increased household chores. The girls explain their effort to break the digital divide and embrace online learning.
“Over the past year and a half, we have faced great difficulty in accessing education. Everything moved to the online medium suddenly, which meant we had to rapidly embrace online learning, apart from fighting other challenges,” said Guddi Gupta, a seventeen-year-old class 12 student.
