Inspiring Stories of People and Communities Fighting Discrimination and Inequality

STORIES OF CHANGE

Education

19 Mar, 2019

Bihar

Nandini's mother helps fortify her daughter's future

9-year-old Nandini was born into a family of Musahars in Bihar.
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Economic Justice

15 Mar, 2019

Uttar Pradesh

Manju Devi's Journey Towards Self Reliance

Often the cost of cultivation and input costs are very high which pushes a farmer to debt. In most of the cases, small and marginal farmers are not able to arrange required agricultural equipment and ...

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Economic Justice

15 Mar, 2019

Uttar Pradesh

Challenging Gender Bias through Innovative Farming Practices

Forty-year-old Shanti Devi (in photo) a woman farmer in Uttar Pradesh, lives in Musadei village (Mitauli block) in Lakhimpur Kheri district with her husband and five children. Earlier, she and her hus...

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Humanitarian Response and DRR

27 Feb, 2019

Kerala

Oxfam India in flood hit Kerala: Stories from the ground

Kerala witnessed the worst floods in 100 years, in 2018, killing over 417 people and affecting lakhs of them.
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Gender Justice

04 Feb, 2019

Chhattisgarh

Strengthening Panchayats to respond to Violence Against Women

Unaware by the change which was emerging in their lives, Phoolkumari and her friends along with other villagers of Sushi village of Janjgir Champa district in Chhattisgarh headed towards the Gaon Panc...

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Gender Justice

31 Dec, 2018

Odisha

Fighting for a brighter future

Upendra Patra, 45, belongs to Kalahandi, Odisha. He has been fighting against rampant child marriage practice within the Gond community through the help of Oxfam's Creating Spaces project.&n...

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