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STORIES OF CHANGE

Health

04 Feb, 2020

Bihar

Community-Based Organisations Raise Awareness on Healthcare

Kajal Kumari lives with her husband, Aakash and her in-laws in Jakkanpur in Patna in Bihar. Aakash is a daily wage labourer and did not have a regular source of income; the financial burd...
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Humanitarian Response and DRR

30 Jan, 2020

Kerala

Rebuilding lives of flood-affected families in Kerala

The 2018 floods in Kerala ravaged the state and had a devastating impact on lives and livelihoods of everyone affected – from women and girls to men and boys, and from differently abled t...
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Education

20 Nov, 2019

Odisha

Swantana has big dreams to achieve

Household responsibilities forced Swantana* to drop out of school and stay at home for nearly five years.
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Gender Justice

05 Nov, 2019

Jharkhand

From Survivor to Champion of Women’s Rights

Though married as a child and facing domestic violence, 33 year old Hira Devi of Jharkhand’s Silda village never thought it was a problem.
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Education

30 Oct, 2019

New Delhi

Empowering girls through education

16-year-olds Radha* and Devrani* had to miss regular classes for two months after they were transferred from their school to another that was far from their localities.
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Education

17 Sep, 2019

New Delhi

Oxfam India helps Gudiya restart schooling

Gudiya (centre) with two of her friends who also went to the centre run by Oxfam India. Thirteen year old Gudiya* came to Delhi with her parents, who migrated from Assam five yea
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