Stree Shakti - Usha Vishwakarma - Ep #24 Part 1

Usha Vishwakarma , then aged 18, was working as a school teacher. She was sexually assaulted and a victim of an attempted rape by a colleague. “He grabbed me and put his hands round me and tried to open my belt and trousers,” says Usha. This incident left her distraught, abandoned and traumatized for two years.In 2009 she set up her own small school for local girls in an outbuilding next to her family home. Yet all around her, she says, she saw more and more young women suffering the same abuse she had faced. And it was threatening to wreck the chances of her young female students. She said that the incident, coupled with the rape of an 11-year-old girl she tutored, was the breaking point and hence the birth of The Red Brigade. Usha is involved in the education of children. Living in Madiyav, a poor neighbourhood area in Lucknow, she is a professor and leads an informal school called Balmanch. She shares a family home with her parents. Usha is committed towards empowering every woman.

Usha Vishwakarma Part - 2
- Usha Red Brigade
- Public opinion on red brigade
- Film Actor Sushant Singh Rajput talks about women Empowerment
- College students sings a Rap on respecting women
- College girls and boys raising their voice on sexual violence
- Lyricist Manoj Munteshir from the fame of 'Teri Galiyaan' comes to meet Usha on the sets of Stree Shakti and recites some inspirational lines for women empowerment.