{"id":22674,"date":"2015-03-03T15:58:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T10:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=22674"},"modified":"2015-03-03T15:59:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T10:29:55","slug":"she-walkathon-2015-to-be-held-in-trivandrum-on-march-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/she-walkathon-2015-to-be-held-in-trivandrum-on-march-8\/","title":{"rendered":"She Walkathon 2015 to be held in Trivandrum on March 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of &#8216;International Women&#8217;s Day&#8217; Kerala State Women&#8217;s Development Corporation (KSWDC) is gearing up to organise the largest walkathon of women in the state on <strong>March 8 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The objective of She Walkathon is to empower women and create awareness among them on various issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Called as &#8216;She Walkathon&#8217;, the event will be the largest congregation of women in the state from all walks of life irrespective of religion, caste age, job, political or financial backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no place for women in the state to celebrate their womanhood irrespective of their age, job, education, religion or other such criteria,&#8221; KSWDC Managing Director PTM Sunish told PTI.\u00a0 &#8220;So, we want them to offer a platform where they can gather just because they are women and where these criteria are not counted. It is the basic message of Women&#8217;s Day also,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The response from the public was overwhelming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The participants of She Walkathon will march from Kanakakkunnu Palace ground to Kowdiar on March 8 raising slogans about the greatness and strength of womanhood.<\/p>\n<p>Ariel H Pollock, the Public Affairs Officer of the U.S Consulate General (Chennai), is expected to participate in the event as the guest of honour.<\/p>\n<p>About<strong> 5000<\/strong> women participated in the first edition of the walkathon organised in the capital city last year. The response from the public was overwhelming. The officials are expecting more turn out this time.<\/p>\n<p>The objective of She Walkathon is to empower women and create awareness among them on various issues.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong> March 8 2015<\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Kanakakkunnu Palace Ground<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of &#8216;International Women&#8217;s Day&#8217; Kerala State Women&#8217;s Development Corporation (KSWDC) is gearing up to organise the largest walkathon of women in the state on March 8 2015. The objective of She Walkathon is to empower women and create awareness among them on various issues. Called as &#8216;She Walkathon&#8217;, the event will be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-22674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}