Be The Voice of This Campaign! Here’s How…
We are seeking volunteers who can make 20-30 minute presentations on The 50 Million Missing Campaign and the fight against female genocide (femicide) in India.
We want these presentations made in all countries. We are specifically targeting schools, colleges, universities, women’s groups and other organizations. But would be happy if you want to present it even to a party of friends at home. To view the feedback on some of the presentations already made by campaign volunteers click here.
We have the slide show and speech all prepared for you and you just have to make the presentation. We will email these to you. Just email us at volunteer50mm@yahoo.com telling us a little bit about yourself, and where you would like to make this presentation.
Alternatively, you can download it here.
THESE ARE THE 4 STEPS TO MAKING YOUR PRESENTATION:
1. Download the slide presentation by clicking on this link.
2. Copy the slides sequentially (the file names are numbered) into a new MS PowerPoint file or any other slide-presentation program that you use.
3. Save your slide presentation on your pen-drive, and read through this short paper by the campaign founder, Rita Banerji, in the Journal of Gender and Sexuality. It provides the background and references for your presentation. “Female Genocide and The 50 Million Missing Campaign,” Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
Issue 22, October 2009 . Also read the link for Roopa’s story (slide 11). Roopa is a dowry-survivor. When her parents refused to give her in-laws dowry, her husband and in-laws pinned her down and forced acid down her throat. The 50 Million Missing campaign is a zero fund campaign. We don’t raise or collect funds and run on volunteer effort. However none of the ngos or international organizations in India that we approached for Roopa would help her, and she required urgent internal surgery, otherwise she would have died. Her own family is very poor, so the 50MM rallied for people to donate to her family and it saved her life.
4. Whenever you make a presentation please contact us and tell us how your audience responded.
5. If you think your audience will be interested, we recommend that after your presentation you could show them this film (with English subtitles) “Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women.” 
This is a brilliantly made film that won many international awards. The story, which is a projection into the future, is about an Indian village where every girl child has been killed off, except for one. This child is raised by her father in total secrecy. In a village where men are desperate to find women to marry, no one knows about her existence, till one day someone discovers her in the forest, where she’s playing dressed like a boy. [It's important to note that there is much in this film that represents reality. For instance the massive trafficking of women across India, their "sale" as brides, and the fact that families of 4-5 brothers often times "buy" a bride to share].
5. Finally, we often get requests for campaign speakers from organizations and international symposiums. If you would like to be an official speaker for us, then please contact us at 50millionmissing@gmail.com before you start making your presentations. And we will tell what you need to do.
I want to be a volunteer for 50 Million Missing Campaign. I have been talking to many people on the streets everyday about Female Infanticide in Newcastle, Australia. Some times people don’t believe me… It is hard but am doing it everyday. Am planing to talk in churches here.
Cynthia
hello Cynthia,
We will very happy to have you be the Voice of the Campaign in Australia. Please do download the slide presentation from this post — and it’s very easy to use. If you have any questions do contact us at 50millionmissing@gmail.com And we would also love feedback from you on how the presentation went, and questions that people asked. So we look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you so much. Tomorrow am going to do a presentation on this.
its a matter of dealing with crime.
in gujarat we are running movement gender ratio balancing movement in which we are trying to implement pc&pndt act by data collection,sting operations,lagal prosecutation,dharna,protest and many available way.we would like to meet you all friend who are associated with save girl child,save female fetus.
if this situation continues the men who cant afford to buy a wife (lets call it what it is) will be tempted to become mercenaries for rouge states like north Korea, Sudan, and worst of all Iran. if one such county dose hire a large Indian mercenary army and then gets most of them killed this could start a vary bloody and possibly nuclear war between India and that country. this may sound unlikely but studies have shown that one of the main reasons Libyans join AL-Qaeda is to get enough money to buy a wife. but most of them just get killed. so i say are we going to attempt to make a difference or just sit back and watch a country destroy its self on cnn!
i would love to Volunteer!