FAT Tech Centre celebrated Women's Day on 29th March in Jalvihar locality, Lajpat Nagar. The event was organised by the Tech Centre students themselves. A crowd of 40 people, both women and men gathered around the event. Two of our students talked about Women's Day and the importance of recognising women's rights in day to day life. Group songs on women empowerment were sung by the our Tech Centre students. Discussions over setting up a Adolescent Girls' Collective in the respective locality was also held.

This March FAT participated in the first edition launch of NGO India 2012 exhibition which was designed to bring together NGO's across India. It was a learning experience for FAT to be a part of this widescale exhibition. The three day event had seminars and conferences being held side by side along with the exhibition. It was a big opportunity to come across varied organizations working in diffrent sectors, not known to us before. This forum would hopefully let us build communication with other organizations and provide us with more ideas on fundraising. 

In the last 3 months, FAT has participated in many events organized by other organizations and presented in the following 3 events.

-  CITIZEN ASIA Research Network: Final meeting at Bangaluru
-  Motorola Global Engineering Marathon
-  National Consultation on Gender and Media Literacy organized by Nirantar in Lucknow

- By Neha Bhayana, Times of India Crest, 03/03/2012

A poor, unlettered woman from Mirzapur district in Uttar Pradesh is asked to fork out Rs 800 after her delivery at a government-run district hospital. She protests. She is not required to pay anything and is, in fact, eligible to receive Rs 1, 400 under a government scheme to promote institutional deliveries, she tells the staff nurse. The nurse shrugs and says everyone pays for mithai, warning her that they will not give her the discharge papers if she makes a noise.