Woman to go on 260-day hike for marginalised
From a marketing professional to United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UN Women), Sristhi Bakshi, has come a long way.
On Friday, Ms Bakshi will set out on a 260-day journey covering from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu to Srinagar in Kashmir, as a champion for Change with Empower Women Initiative by United Nations Women.
The avid hiker, who has hiked over 25 trails across the globe, will walk a distance of 3,800 km, raising awareness about the need of financial and digital literacy for women.
The campaign, Billion Steps for India, which will begin on September 15, is based on UN Women's strategy as per which any problem faced by a woman in any part of the world can be solved through financial and digital literacy.
The workshops will specifically target schoolgirls, women enrolled in skill development institutions
The avid hiker, who has hiked over 25 trails across the globe, will walk a distance of 3,800 km on September 15, in order to raise awareness about the need of financial and digital literacy for women
and men and women in colleges. They will be categorised in three modules.
“The objective is to engage people in a digital world movement where they can connect on a digital platform and join their steps to the movement,” said Ms Bakshi, who founded CrossBow, a social enterprise focussed on redefining impact funds.
During the journey, she will cover more than 19 big cities, 12 mid-tier towns, 15 small towns and 110 villages, where she would conduct around 60 workshops focused around women empowerment through digital and financial literacy.
Having mapped her walk to figure the logistical “nitty gritties” with held from her father who is in the army, she said she could complete the walk in 190 days in her current capacity.
“Every morning I will start the walk and continue for 25 km, meeting the people on the way and asking them to join us in contingents,” she said.
The first stop will centre on the UN's message of digital and financial literacy, where women will be empowered through a platform called, ‘Welearn’.