Thursday, 13 June 2019

Press Release :Men Welfare Trust Celebrates The International Father’s Day 2019 with #SelfieWithDad

Men Welfare Trust Celebrates The International Father’s Day 2019 with #SelfieWithDad Campaign !

To organise celebration on Sunday, June 16, 2019 at India Gate, 5:00 pm onwards




Thursday, June 13, 2019; New Delhi: Men Welfare Trust (MWT), a registered NGOs under the aegis of Save Indian Family (SIF) movement, will celebrate The International Father’s Day 2019 with their campaign – #SelfieWithDad. 

As part of the celebration, Men Welfare Trust will organise several activities on Sunday, June 16, 2019 starting at 5:00 pm at the India Gate Lawns. These activities will involve engagement with families, painting competitions for children and several joint activities for children with their fathers, followed by Q&A. The event will conclude by a song dedicated to the spirit of fatherhood. Date: Sunday, June 16, 2019 Time: 5:00 pm onwards Venue: Near Amar Jawan Jyoti, India Gate Lawns.

Starting today, volunteers of Men Welfare Trust will also run the #SelfieWithDad Campaign on Twitter and Facebook where they will call people to post ‘Father and child’ selfies as a tribute to their fathers. The aim is to create awareness and bring to fore contributions and importance of fathers to their families and to the society, which are very often taken for granted. Father's Day is a celebration honouring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, enforcing paternal bonds, and highlighting the influence of fathers in society.

Speaking about the #SelfieWithDad Campaign, Mr Amit Lakhani, Founder President of Men Welfare Trust said, “I sometimes feel that as a society, we have failed to acknowledge the value of a father in a child’s life. Even those who understand this fail to express and tell our dads how much we love and care for them. Going further, through this initiative, we aim to spread awareness on shared parenting and child alienation which has today become a very serious social issue”. 

He added, “There has been a sea change in the society and specially the family system in India in the last couple of decades and the Divorce rates are ever rising. This has resulted in a lot of Fathers being deprived from seeing their own children and the society is moving towards a Father-less society like in the west. It is only in our interests that the government urgently recognise the pain of Fathers and make laws that are in line with the current and ongoing changes in the society”.

Studies show that children coming from broken fatherless families are more prone resorting to drugs, alcoholism and crime; and, cases where children at a very young age are running away from homes, getting into juvenile crimes, drugs and prostitution.

Recommendations to the government by Men Welfare Trust: 

• Shared parenting to be Law in India as it is in most parts of the world; and guidelines by the Mumbai High-court on shared parenting to be strictly followed by other family courts across India
• Formation of ‘National Commission for Men’ to look into the rights of Fathers and rising suicides by the alienating fathers in India
• Ministry of Women and Child Development to recognise the rights of children to have access to their fathers for a balanced upbringing. Alternatively, create a separate Ministry (Ministry of Children) for looking at specific issue related to child rights

History of Father’s Day :

Father’s Day is celebrated in majority countries of the world on the 3rd Sunday in the month of June. This day is to honour fathers and celebrate fatherhood, paternal bonds, and recognise contributions of fathers in society. Father’s Day was inaugurated as a civic celebration in The U.S., in the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day by celebrating fathers and male parenting. The first observance of a ‘Father's Day’ was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia. In countries like The U.S., Father’s Day is a permanent national holiday since 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed it into law.

About Men Welfare Trust (MWT): 
A registered NGO in New Delhi, Men Welfare Trust (MWT) works for safeguarding the interests of those Men who have been implicated in false cases because of the gross misuse of gender biased laws. MWT has been involved in several intervention petitions on issues such as Marital Rape. Mr Amit Lakhani, President and Mr Ritwik Bisaria, Vice-President of MWT are India’s foremost Men’s Rights Activists who have been actively involved for the last 8 years in providing free and selfless help to Men and their families who are victimized by the misuse of gender biased laws such as false 498-A, rape, sexual harassment, domestic violence and other cases of similar nature. They have provided counselling and support to lakhs of Men in distress who have been victims of false cases which are filed by many women and their families to cash in and extort from a failed relationship, defame and shame the husband and settle personal scores. They are also actively engaged in various other activities like research, documentation and publication on men’s rights issues, and regularly appear on India’s leading national news channels. 

For further information, please contact: 
Amit Lakhani / +91 9811004578 / Vitesh Aggarwal / +91 9958987919 contactsavefamily@gmail.com, menwelfaretrust@gmail.com 







































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