EVENTS

The Red Door is a fun event with colours facilitated by artist and mental health advocate, Reshma Valliappan. On 29th November 2011, the students of FAT's Tech Center organized a Red Door in their community. The event saw a plethora of colours and creativity in the premises of the Jalvihar locality in Lajpat Nagar. Reshma's aim through the concept of Red Door is to encourage people of different age groups express their hooded imagination and creativity through the medium of art.

This 3-day workshop was attended by 17 participants from various parts of the country, which included Mumbai, Hyderabad, Jamshedpur, Patna, Ranchi, Bangalore, and New Delhi. The participants represented organisations working on diverse issues, from child sexual abuse to maximising employment to serve the handicapped, from working with the youth in remote parts of the country to doing policy research. Lisa Hodges, who works for Joint Leap Technologies and volunteers for FAT, was the main facilitator of the workshop.

This 4-day workshop was conducted for a group of girls between the age group 16 to 20 staying in hostels managed by Muskaan, an NGO in Bhopal, and learning computers at the Muskaan Centre. The girls had basic knowledge of computers and some skills on desktop publishing, photo editing and using the Internet. After having developed the basic skills on computers, the girls wanted to learn website designing and work on a website for Muskaan. At this point FAT stepped in to conduct this workshop for the girls.

Often it is seen that mothers, both homemakers and working, feel lost when their children and husbands talk about technology. Most mothers don't feel comfortable using the computer and the Internet. They feel embarassed to ask their children to teach them and are afraid of making mistakes. With these points in mind, a two-day workshop was organized by FAT and Zeal Education, Ahmedabad, for mothers to introduce them to the Internet and motivate them to use it.