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Driving With Selvi

On the 28th of February, I attended the screening of a film called Driving with Selvi. Here is the information:

About the Film:
“In 2004, Selvi was an eighteen-year-old runaway living in a shelter for girls. Like so many girls in India, Selvi was forced to marry at a young age, only to find herself in a violent marriage. With no sympathy from her family and no hope that things could get better, she planned her ultimate escape. She went to a highway with the intention of throwing herself under the wheels of a bus. Instead she got on the bus…and went on to become South India’s first female taxi driver. Driving with Selvi (53 min.) follows this young woman’s courageous ten-year journey from despair to happiness. We see a remarkable transformation as Selvi finds her voice and defies cultural expectations that view women as expendable or worthless – learning to drive, starting her own taxi company, leading seminars to educate other women, marrying a man she loves, and much more. No one is more surprised or delighted by her accomplishments than Selvi, herself. Once an abused child bride and now an empowered working mother, she has learned from her life experiences to value education so that her daughter’s life will be easier than her own. For viewers, Selvi’s insights are our inspiration”

About the Director:
“Elisa Paloschi is a filmmaker, producer and photographer who is drawn to stories with a human voice. With over 20 years experience in documentary film production, she is the founder of Eyesfull Inc., a Toronto based independent production company dedicated to making non-fiction films with social relevance that reflect the diversity of the human voice.”

This was an amazing movie and I enjoyed it throughout. Hopefully, this sort of action becomes more prevalent throughout the world.

Selvi:

 

 

Reference:

Driving With Selvi

https://www.timeout.com/london/film/driving-with-selvi

Elisa Paloschi: Cultivating Your Creativity, Telling Stories With Purpose, And Making Driving With Selvi

 

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Climate Change and Clean Energy

I have recently joined a new service called Climate Change and Clean Energy. It was created by a student who was interested in solar energy and he is called Hemal Arora. I believe that he has made a great decision to create this service group. I will be researching into our school policies and hopefully make some change concerning climate change as well as energy. However, there are two other groups, one is working on a presentation that will help educate people about climate change and the other is creating a website to post news about climate change and clean energy. In other words, we are working on both awareness and change.

 

Another coordinator and leader of the service group is Nathan Hunt who is the head of sustainability at UWCSEA (both campuses). Before this service, I talked with Nathan Hunt about the sustainability here at UWCSEA and how I could help. The meetings were very informative and it helped grow my passion for the environment.

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Swimdonesia/Swim for Life

On Thursday, December the 14th at 15:00,  although the event started much earlier than that, I came to help with the Swimdonesia/Swim for Life event. There were four GCs there to help out however my GC is an amalgamate of Bali Sharks and Gili Eco Trust.

There were many swimmers, especially those from the swim team, who decided to swim a certain number of laps to gain sponsorship much like Run for Rights. We had a stall and were selling both Bali Sharks and Gili Eco Trust merchandise, however, no one came to our stall and only one of our mentor for the GC bought something. In spite of that, our treasure hunt was not a huge success, but there were some children who participated, mostly for the hopes of candy.

I believe it went really well as there were many swimmers that were willing to contribute to our cause despite the fact that we did not sell as much as we had hoped to.

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Toiletries for Cambodia

When I was at TIS (Tokyo International School) in Grade 7, we had to do some kind of community service as a requirement for our school. I decided to start a campaign called “Toiletries for Cambodia”. Fortunately, my grandmother has a friend who works for a school in Cambodia called “Mr. Mattias & Seng Nga English School”. I was able to collect toiletries from the TIS community and ultimately send those toiletries to her (Jenny Johansson), who then further gave it to the school.

This was an amazing opportunity this it might seem weird for me to do this kind of thing as I am very passionate about the environment. However, I assure you, I did this because I wanted to try something different for a change and this seemed like a great opportunity. This link is to the website that the school has created.