Activist Shreha Dhargalkar To Represent India At World Social Justice & Peace Forum in New York

NEW DELHI: Goa-based social worker and Human Rights activist Shreha Dhargalkar will represent India at the “World Social Justice & Peace Forum” (WSJPF) to be held in New York in January next year.

The “World Social Justice & Peace Forum” is affiliated and connected with other initiatives and programs of the United Nations and is an international platform for social workers the world over to share their work and experience, said Williams Martinez, Secretary General of the WSJPF, while confirming that Dhargalkar has been invited as one of the representatives from India.

Including Shreha, three more activists from India will attend the function in New York during the second week of January next year.

Dhargalkar will be felicitated and awarded a certificate of appreciation as one of the few Indian women who worked during the Covid pandemic in her home State of Goa in Western India, spending her own money to feed the poor, underprivileged and even migrants who were stuck in Goa, thousand of miles away from their homes in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal.

Shreha is said to have sold her own jewelry and other valuables to raise funds to bear the expenses of feeding the poor and migrants in Siolim, Mapusa and surrounding areas of North Goa, during the lockdown in the months of March to May 2020, when India imposed a country-wide lockdown, shutting down mass transport and movement of all passenger trains and busses to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

She has been at the forefront of the fight against injustice and oppression against women and children. She has also stood for the hundreds of poor migrants from far-off villages in India, who work in the tourist state to earn their living.