good afternoon motherhood is one of the
biggest game-changer I think most of you
agree with me it’s a totally new life
where you have a big responsibility a
child you’re supposed to be taking care
of the rest of your life it’s all about
love care compassion and a lot of
responsibilities of course I’m just
curious if there are some mothers in the
room okay there are some thank you for
being here
it’s a beautiful face I think most of
you would agree with me you must have
heard from a lot of your friends family
and colleagues that seen your child for
the first time is the best feeling ever
but it’s not true for a lot of people in
India every are five women are dying
during childbirth or postpartum they are
not able to see the faces of their
children or the children are not able to
see their mothers children also dying
during the birth if we talk about facts
and data about point seven million
children are dying during childbirth
it’s a very concerning number this
beautiful face which we all deserve to
enjoy becomes a crisis situation it’s a
trauma which you have to live with for
rest of your life
since I started with my foundation I
have come across with a lot of women and
heard about their stories what they have
been going through and it’s sometimes
really concerns me like how the
situation can be cured it’s not about
treating anymore it’s about curing and
there are so many different kind of
situations and so many different kind of
problems which are very hard to even
address there are physical issues there
are also mental issues about 15 percent
of women are facing postpartum
depression and depression is something
which cannot be seen very few people
even from very educated family
understand what this postpartum
depression is all about they are men who
are very educated but they see that the
women are just dramatizing it just to
get the attention from the partners or
families they do not want to or not even
willing to understand what they’re going
through if I talk about I’m blessed that
I have come across with a lot of such
women and I’m able to interact with them
and hear all about their personal
experiences some of the stories are just
heartbreaking I have met mothers who are
just she’s just 17 and she has a
three-year-old daughter and the daughter
has a neural damage and cannot be cured
for the rest of the life so even if you
want to do something for her it’s just
very difficult to even manage because
doctors say it’s just not possible
they are women who were forced into
repeated pregnancies because the
families just warned sons
they’re just having daughters sometimes
they have six daughters and they are
forced into seventh one hoping for the
son and the girl is not even 25 or 26
she has no strength in her body to even
go through that again and again a girl
who is not having a mother she is so
thin that you can barely see any
nutritions or anything like she is
barely able to stand and she is a
surrogate and mother of three of her own
siblings which is very very very scary
we came up with the foundation that we
wanted to help with these women and then
we thought about like where the problem
actually coming from I always felt that
being pregnant giving birth to a child
is a very difficult journey not just
during the pregnancy but also after the
delivery but then I always thought okay
we have a big support system what about
women who do not have a support system
and we’re not having any privileges
either how do they manage these women
are not having any support system even
from the family and that made me wonder
like how can we improved the situation
so we thought that we have to work on
imparting some knowledge because the
problem is as simple as having the
knowledge and awareness about their own
health so we come forwards to give them
knowledge and impart some awareness in
them about their own health make them
self aware
but a lot of challenges around that also
we want to come up with the center where
these women can come down and gain also
knowledge about themselves and about
their children but the family wouldn’t
support that because they would expect
the rumen to go out and earn so we have
to think of a situation where women are
allowed to come to the center and even
gain such knowledge which is one of the
biggest factor is actually money so we
have to do something which empowers
these women and instead of they being
sent on a construction site they should
be sent to the center that’s where we
started thinking of bringing some sort
of empowerment or some sort of earning
mechanism that while they’re learning
they’re also earning that is the model
we started working on and we expect that
it would make some impact on these women
to not just take care of their own
health but also their children from the
video this morning we saw that there was
a very beautiful code that all the all
of us are born creative it’s just matter
of retaining it I think exactly same
about compassion I feel most of us all
of us are born with compassion and love
yesterday when I flew down to Bangalore
my one-and-a-half years old daughter she
was running through the entire plane and
she literally went to each and every
passenger to say hello and shook hands
with him and no matter I wanted to say I
wanted to say hello or not but I really
had to smile at each every each one of
them so that compassion and love do we
retain that that is a question and why
don’t we retain that anymore
why don’t we feel for each other why
don’t we feel for women in the same
family
why don’t we feel their pain what they
are going through it’s the situation in
the underprivileged family it’s a
situation also in the privileged
families we have to feel the pain we
have to feel compassionate and health to
uplift each other and that is the
message I’m going to bring today that
please think please be there please
support
please bring each other forward and give
that support and strength and come
forward and do your bit if you can be
socially aware and be socially
responsible because there are so many
issues which needs addressing and it
starts from a very small step that you
need to take it can be as simple as
educating your domestic help about her
health but her family’s health and about
her own right you have to educate her
that if she’s been told to compromise on
her own situation that’s not right she’s
been conditioned that way to live the
life that way and she’s not supposed to
be living that we have to educate
because we are educated and it’s our
responsibility to spread that education
and that awareness towards the ones who
do not have it on that note thank you so
much
[Applause]
biggest game-changer I think most of you
agree with me it’s a totally new life
where you have a big responsibility a
child you’re supposed to be taking care
of the rest of your life it’s all about
love care compassion and a lot of
responsibilities of course I’m just
curious if there are some mothers in the
room okay there are some thank you for
being here
it’s a beautiful face I think most of
you would agree with me you must have
heard from a lot of your friends family
and colleagues that seen your child for
the first time is the best feeling ever
but it’s not true for a lot of people in
India every are five women are dying
during childbirth or postpartum they are
not able to see the faces of their
children or the children are not able to
see their mothers children also dying
during the birth if we talk about facts
and data about point seven million
children are dying during childbirth
it’s a very concerning number this
beautiful face which we all deserve to
enjoy becomes a crisis situation it’s a
trauma which you have to live with for
rest of your life
since I started with my foundation I
have come across with a lot of women and
heard about their stories what they have
been going through and it’s sometimes
really concerns me like how the
situation can be cured it’s not about
treating anymore it’s about curing and
there are so many different kind of
situations and so many different kind of
problems which are very hard to even
address there are physical issues there
are also mental issues about 15 percent
of women are facing postpartum
depression and depression is something
which cannot be seen very few people
even from very educated family
understand what this postpartum
depression is all about they are men who
are very educated but they see that the
women are just dramatizing it just to
get the attention from the partners or
families they do not want to or not even
willing to understand what they’re going
through if I talk about I’m blessed that
I have come across with a lot of such
women and I’m able to interact with them
and hear all about their personal
experiences some of the stories are just
heartbreaking I have met mothers who are
just she’s just 17 and she has a
three-year-old daughter and the daughter
has a neural damage and cannot be cured
for the rest of the life so even if you
want to do something for her it’s just
very difficult to even manage because
doctors say it’s just not possible
they are women who were forced into
repeated pregnancies because the
families just warned sons
they’re just having daughters sometimes
they have six daughters and they are
forced into seventh one hoping for the
son and the girl is not even 25 or 26
she has no strength in her body to even
go through that again and again a girl
who is not having a mother she is so
thin that you can barely see any
nutritions or anything like she is
barely able to stand and she is a
surrogate and mother of three of her own
siblings which is very very very scary
we came up with the foundation that we
wanted to help with these women and then
we thought about like where the problem
actually coming from I always felt that
being pregnant giving birth to a child
is a very difficult journey not just
during the pregnancy but also after the
delivery but then I always thought okay
we have a big support system what about
women who do not have a support system
and we’re not having any privileges
either how do they manage these women
are not having any support system even
from the family and that made me wonder
like how can we improved the situation
so we thought that we have to work on
imparting some knowledge because the
problem is as simple as having the
knowledge and awareness about their own
health so we come forwards to give them
knowledge and impart some awareness in
them about their own health make them
self aware
but a lot of challenges around that also
we want to come up with the center where
these women can come down and gain also
knowledge about themselves and about
their children but the family wouldn’t
support that because they would expect
the rumen to go out and earn so we have
to think of a situation where women are
allowed to come to the center and even
gain such knowledge which is one of the
biggest factor is actually money so we
have to do something which empowers
these women and instead of they being
sent on a construction site they should
be sent to the center that’s where we
started thinking of bringing some sort
of empowerment or some sort of earning
mechanism that while they’re learning
they’re also earning that is the model
we started working on and we expect that
it would make some impact on these women
to not just take care of their own
health but also their children from the
video this morning we saw that there was
a very beautiful code that all the all
of us are born creative it’s just matter
of retaining it I think exactly same
about compassion I feel most of us all
of us are born with compassion and love
yesterday when I flew down to Bangalore
my one-and-a-half years old daughter she
was running through the entire plane and
she literally went to each and every
passenger to say hello and shook hands
with him and no matter I wanted to say I
wanted to say hello or not but I really
had to smile at each every each one of
them so that compassion and love do we
retain that that is a question and why
don’t we retain that anymore
why don’t we feel for each other why
don’t we feel for women in the same
family
why don’t we feel their pain what they
are going through it’s the situation in
the underprivileged family it’s a
situation also in the privileged
families we have to feel the pain we
have to feel compassionate and health to
uplift each other and that is the
message I’m going to bring today that
please think please be there please
support
please bring each other forward and give
that support and strength and come
forward and do your bit if you can be
socially aware and be socially
responsible because there are so many
issues which needs addressing and it
starts from a very small step that you
need to take it can be as simple as
educating your domestic help about her
health but her family’s health and about
her own right you have to educate her
that if she’s been told to compromise on
her own situation that’s not right she’s
been conditioned that way to live the
life that way and she’s not supposed to
be living that we have to educate
because we are educated and it’s our
responsibility to spread that education
and that awareness towards the ones who
do not have it on that note thank you so
much
[Applause]
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