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• PDP had a Gender Sensitivity workshop ,anchored by Sincy & Sridhar - 7 participants.
It was a half day session. Participants felt it was well structured and engaging and
wanted an in depth session which will be for around 2 to 3 days

• We have announced a Buddy system where new PDP members can reach out to
others

In Person Lab – Sangam 2021
In August 2021, we as a region had a discussion on whether or not to conduct an in person
event in our region. A task Force was formed with a combination of PMs and PDP. We had
Rajeshwari from the PM community and Jeyachander, Mery, Nivedita , Tarsh and Kiran Mai
from PDP. After conducting a survey across our region’s facilitators and Associate members,
we decided to go ahead and start the planning for an event in December, 1 to 5 . Tarsh and
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Nivedita did a recce of 3 venues before we finalised CEO centre as most suitable,
We finished with 3 BLHP, 1 ALHP , total of 36 participants, and 8 faculty. We had participants
from social sector, corporate and self-employed. There were 19 Women and 17 Men. We gave
10% to 50% discounts for self-employed and NGO’s.

Some Glimpses from the event -

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