14-year-old Seema was brought by officers of the Child Helpline to the hospital for pregnancy testing. She had run away from her home and was rescued by the Helpline; she would be now sent to a shelter home till the legal procedures would be completed. As per the norms, for admitting a female to a s...
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Dilkhush was born on January 9, 2018, weighing 2.5 kilograms. His mother, Fori and father, Durgalal were happy with the birth of their first child, making it a family of three. The family draws its income from cattle farming and agriculture, with no external assistance. As a result, the infant’...
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“Initially, many women in the village were suspicious of me, taking me for nothing but an ambitious saleswoman. To set their minds at ease, I shared my own experience of using a cloth during menstruation, instead of a sanitary pad and how inconvenient and unhygienic it was for me. This helped ...
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Pooja Doriya lives in Jamgod village in the Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh, which is inhabited by 700 families, a majority from the OBC, ST/SC community. The main sources of water in the village include the community well, hand pumps and borewells installed in some households. However, during the ...
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In the Rajeshwari slum area in Banashankari, Bengaluru resides an unstoppable force called Sushila, who she attended a two-day life skill training organised by CARE India in March 2021. This workshop helped her recognise her creative talents, which she decided to put to better use to earn an additio...
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Manda Rajeram Pal lives in Parda village, in the Wardha district of Maharashtra. She and her family members often fell sick, directing most of their savings towards medical expenses and doctor’s fees. There was one instance when her condition was so serious that she required a blood transfusion a...
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“I felt sad seeing my peers go to college, while I went to the farm to work,” recalls Priya Narendra Bhatkar coming from a middle-class family of three sisters, who had to discontinue their education after the 12th standard, due to poor financial conditions. Because their parents were ill an...
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Twenty-one-year old Rajni has been a female facilitator trained on the subject of family planning, as part of the Zero and Low Parity Pilot (ZLPP) programme implemented by CARE India from 2018-2020, in Gaya and East Champaran districts of Bihar. It is indeed marvelous that despite the numerous ha...
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An eighth-class-pass housewife and mother of two sons including one who is differently-abled, Chetnaben Sindha lives in Kamboi village, Jambusar block in Bharuch district, Gujarat. There was a time when she used to help her husband in farming and cattle rearing, using traditional methods. Since s...
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The world came crashing down around 24-year-old Rinku Devi when her husband passed away in a fatal accident, leaving behind three sons to care for. He was a daily wage labourer at a construction site in Kolkata, while she lived with her in-laws back in Khesrahi village in Vaishali district of Bihar....
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Huddled together in a tarpaulin hut less than 100 sq ft in area, lives 27-year-old Durgamma and her family of five - her husband, a BBMP worker and four kids. They live in the Sajjepalaya slums, which is bereft of civic facilities like electricity, water or toilets. Coming from an impoverished fa...
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Bihar and India are at the cusp of achieving the elimination of Kala Azar through concerted efforts of the government, civil society organisations and local volunteers. One of the key strategies used to achieve this has been Indoor Residual Spray ...
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