News from Baroda: SHG meeting, sodality renewal, and self-defence training

📅 December 12, 2015 • 📍 Baroda

News from Auxilium - Baroda covers three events. On December 12, 2015, the Community Development officer of Baroda gave a one-hour input session to 25 Self Help Group (SHG) women about bank loans and the government support they are entitled to. The women were interested and had many doubts, which were clarified in detail. On December 13, seventeen SHG members, who are part of Our Ladys Sodality of Don Bosco parish, renewed their promise. They regularly participate in meetings and contribute significantly to church activities, describing their experience as like a family of women working together in peace; problems are there but we know how to solve them; Praised be the Lord who has chosen us to be His apostles. On January 3, 2016, a self-defence training program was conducted for the NCPs at Auxilium Convent - Baroda from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. The resource person, a student of Standard X from the school, taught them various techniques to defend and protect themselves in dangerous situations and how to act sensibly when alone.