A 3 day workshop in Amdavad for women “To be a Heritage walk Guide”

Ahmedabad

A group of 30 women will be taken through the introduction of “To be a Heritage walk Guide”. This will be the first step of learning to create income in part time and taking pride to share our heritage. The walk, that will be as content of training is “Kranti Yatra”.

Kranti Yatra is a walk that connects the houses of the citizens who became leaders and stepped forward to be part of the independence movement.

This walks takes one thorough the narrow lanes of Khadia -old city of Ahmedabad to each house waiting to tell its story. The significance an important fact why Gandhiji chose Ahmedabad to build the base of the freedom movement gets revealed in this walk.

This walk has been designed by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) partnering with the citizens of Khadia. This 3 day interaction will be conducted by City Heritage Centre. The faculty will be expert heritage guides and tourism experts. This heritage centre is a 250 year of wooden haveli called ‘Deewanji ni Haveli’.

Ahmedabad’s 5 sq. km old city has many historic buildings and traditional wooden haveli’ s and the Pol’s where people are still continuing the old way of life. This being considered as a living heritage is one of the important aspect that gets showcased with the heritage walk.

This workshop intends to help the participating women to be able to take the first step. The curriculum will include an introduction to the various heritage site and heritage in general and Motivational Session, Opportunities of Working in Tourism & Heritage Sector etc. A field trip will be taken and a script of the walk will be made available. These women will later have the opportunity to avail ongoing field training as apprentice with the expert guides till they can be independent.

Workshop dates are 20, 21, and 22 of August.