ludhiana celebrating this years international womens day theme about connecting and empowering girls a seminar connecting women inspiring futures was organized by the group ludhiana cares active on facebook at guru nanak bhavan on saturday women from all walks of life including doctor psychologist banker police social activists and educationist suggested ways of strengthening the lives and communities of women and girls worldwide the programme began with the story of nirbhaya depicted through sand art suggesting that women safety and security in india was never taken seriously and the unfortunate incident of nirbhaya happened to bring a change mona lall associate director of inifd presented another video mujhe pankh dedo the video depicted the feelings of women in india who desired to live fearlessly in their homes and the country they wished for freedom in free india and not always be suppressed in this male dominated society harpreet soin vicepresident a private bank welcomed the guests and informed them about the idea and mission of ludhiana cares lc she discussed the various projects initiated by lc and their response further she encouraged the audiences to join in and be a part of the change another video chiryaa depicting the atrocities done on women was also played for the audience the sentiments depicted in the video left the audience emotional psychologist kitty bakshi later took on the stage and spoke about mothers call from a psychologists point of view she spoke of the importance of a mothers role in imparting knowledge to her child to safeguard her from adverse situations dr neelam sodhi a gynecologist social activist and convenor of dosst spoke of doctors perspective of dos and donts for adolescents comparing the women of few years back to women of today dr sodhi said we need to understand our body and our needs as we never thought of this before she also stressed on the need for sex education among the adolescents and diseases which can spread because of premarital sex manmeet sodhia director ivanna ift spoke about women safety initiatives in ludhiana she told the audience about the suggestions put forth by ludhiana cares members to district administration and police departments which were mostly adhered to women have started talking about sexual harassement and no longer shy away from the situation sodhia said law will take its time but till then its important that women take stronger roles for themselves nilambari jagadale adcp 1 also the nodal officer for crime against women spoke about police initiatives for women security highlighting the introduction of women helpline numbers special women police cells police counselling for ladies women officers in pcrs and many other advantages given to the women of ludhiana by the district police ars group ludhiana displayed their 65 feet by 7 feet tall painting depicting crime against women students of inifd presented a skit awaaz do the skit depicted the problems faced by the women girls at different stages of life and also suggested the solutions for