2nd Annual Walk for India's Missing Girls will be on Saturday, March 5, 2011

The first annual Walk for India's Missing Girls took place on March 6 and March 7, 2010 in San Francisco, Melbourne, Kuwait, Delhi, Mumbai, Jamshedpur and Pondicherry. The organizers for the Walk included Nyna Pais-Caputi, Founder of the Walk and SF walk organizer, Olive Saldanha- Kuwait walk organizer, Ravneet Kaur - Australia walk organizer, Zubin Paul Driver and Divya Talwar of Fight-Back, Mumbai walk organizers, Mitu Khurana and Bijayalakshmi Nanda 0f CAPF, Maryanne Ekka of Catholic Mahila Sangha, Jamshedpur walk organizer and Deepu Thomas of Pondicherry Univeristy, Pondicherry walk organizer. The walk in Ontario, Canada organized by Dr. James Garrow, 2009 Nobel Peace Prize nominee and founder of Pink Pagoda will be take place later this year.

"On Saturday, March 6th, hundreds of people marched in the streets of Australia, India, Kuwait, and the United States to bring awareness to "gendercide," the killing of fetuses or infants because they are female, that has resulted in devastating gender imbalances in countries like China and India. The US leg of the march took place in San Francisco, The Walk for India's Missing Girls, started at the Golden Gate Park and ended at the Indian Embassy with a 2 minute silence."

--S.F Examiner

What did you set out to achieve through the walk? What do you think has been achieved really?

There were several things that I wanted to achieve. I wanted women in India to realize that they are not alone and people from all over the world would join hands to help them fight for the lives of their daughters. By creating a global walk, we would get the attention of the Indian and international communities and hopefully some of them would come forward to assist the women in India. By organizing the walk in different parts of India, girls, women, school and college students would participate and not only create awareness but also realize themselves the value of the girl child and the necessity to fight female foeticide and infanticide. We had over 700 people participate in Jamshedpur, over 200 in Pondicherry and over 100 in Mumbai and Delhi. The global walk has been written about both in India and the US and the issues of female feticide and infanticide are becoming more public. I plan to make the ‘Walk for India’s Missing Girls’ an annual event and besides making it more global, my dream is to have every city, town and village in India, also organize this walk.

- Interview with Nyna Pais-Caputi, Founder of Walk for India's Missing Girls in the Christian Messenger