In honor of World Water Day and Women’s History Month, the U.S. Consulate General, Hyderabad and Lamakaan bring to you an event on "Water & Women". The program will open with the screening of “Dreadful Fate” - a 20-minute short film by Mr. Dulam Satyanarayana that offers an insight into the heart rending lives of people afflicted with fluorosis, a painful disease caused by consumption of drinking water laden with high level of fluoride in endemic areas.

The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion, with the panelists bringing in expertise and insight into how water issues impact rural and urban women differently, but at the same time, how the impact on both is gender-specific.

Panelists:

Chirantana Kar has 12 years of work experience in the development sector with various research institutions, government and non-government organizations. She initiated the "Green Village Project" in Mahabalipuram which was nominated for the highest Social Impact Award in the year 2011 by BBC. She was also coordinator of the project on community led total sanitation which was awarded with the highest social impact by Water Aid, UK, in the year 2014. She was selected for the prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on Sustainable cities for the year 2015 . Currently she is a freelancer and works voluntarily for community based organization on issues of WASH.

Anusha Bharadwaj is a development professional since 2002 and heads VOICE 4 Girls as the Executive Director. VOICE 4 Girls, a social enterprise that educates and empowers marginalized adolescent girls with the vision to eliminate gender inequality and violence.Her core expertise is in gender, girl child education and health, adolescent health, public health, water and sanitation and rural development. Her commitment and leadership is demonstrated by her selection into the Asia Pacific Leadership Fellow (2013-14), East West Center, USA and Harvard-Dasra Social Impact Leadership Program (2014-15).

Dulam Satyanarayana is an award-winning documentary filmmaker from the state of Telangana. He was a recipient of the prestigious U.S. Department of State’s CCIP fellowship in 2011. His debut short "Moushuni" is about a village lacking electricity until 2001 in Sunderbans that began to use solar power. Later he directed “Dreadful Fate” an expose about groundwater contamination due to fluorosis in the Nalgonda district. His powerful work depicted politicians who claimed to provide citizens with clean drinking water in exchange for votes, but failed to fulfill their promises for four decades. This documentary created an impact by raising funds to provide safe drinking water to twenty-five villages in India.

Shaik Nayeem is a social activist who founded Kriya Sangh Society in 2005. He works on several projects in the areas of water ,sanitation, environment, education, health, livelihoods and community leadership development. Nayeem’s worked on a Groundwater Project in Rasoolpura that helped 450 families have safer water and obtaining ration cards for free without paying for it. These two projects fuelled Nayeem’s passion in working both for and with people to enable them to have more dignified and fulfilling lives and works tirelessly to that end.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.