City schoolgirls paint imaginations on kites

Updated on: Friday, September 23, 2011

A large number of girl students from city schools today joined a unique campaign by painting their imaginations on kites.

Several messages on over 500 kites were on display in the "Let Her Fly" campaign, ranging from those about helping others by aspiring to become teachers, police officers, doctors, to short poems on "What they like doing," apart from drawings on their role models.

"I am Minakshi, a student of Class VIII. Thanks to Mamma and Pappa for letting me live. I want to study a lot. I want to become a pilot," said a kite at the exhibition jointly organised by CRY and card makers Archies.

"One in every 13 girls does not survive beyond the age of six. An estimated 15 million girls were not even allowed to be born during the past decade. Is this the society where we take pride living in," CRY director Yogita Verma asked.

Speaking about the campaign, she said, "These kites are a symbol of freedom and emancipation from discrimination."

According to Verma, economic empowerment being supplemented with easy, unchecked access to technology, it has even become easier to detect a girl child in the womb.

"Why only rural areas, in some highly advanced areas like south Delhi, sex ratio stands at a drastic 866 per thousand, which is well below the national average," she said.

City schoolgirls paint imaginations on kites

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