Embrace differences to achieve equality: Shanu SP Hinduja

NEW YORK, Mar 11:  People must embrace each others’ differences and accept uniqueness in individuals to live in unity and achieve equality, Chairperson of the Hinduja Foundation in the US Shanu SP Hinduja has said.
“We have to realise we were created different, and we will need to accept our differences to combine and create strength. We have to think with oneness,” Hinduja, an ardent advocate for gender equality and women’s empowerment, said,
Hinduja, who is also Co-chair of the UN Foundation’s Global Accelerator, said that in order to live in equality people will have to understand differences between them.
She underlined that the future generations must be taught to appreciate differences as that will lead to achieving equality.
“We can change together in oneness. Negative attributes towards betterment brings solutions to change,” she said adding that blaming others is an “excuse” to escape from reality.
“We all need to change from within us. We need to learn we are different, and we were created different, (and we have) to complete each other, to learn from each other.
“Oneness brings happiness for growth together,” she said in her message on the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8.
Hinduja asked the global citizens to “be kind in mind, thought, vision, understanding, hearing and in viewing each other,” adding that it is important for people to understand differences between them to ‘balance this planet’.
Hinduja said that the change to bring about equality in society will have to begin within the individuals themselves.
Hinduja, the first and only women member on the board of the  Hinduja Bank in Switzerland that is chaired by her father industrialist and philanthropist S P Hinduja, has said that teaching skills to women, who have been out of the workforce, will give them the confidence to find work and help in the empowerment of their families.
She has in the past underscored the need for providing impetus to skills development and youth entrepreneurship.
She also works closely with the Prince Albert the Second of Monaco and on various philanthropic and developmental projects.
She has stressed that the issue of youth empowerment and poverty eradication should be among the main pillars of the post-2015 global development agenda. (PTI)