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STORIES OF CHANGE

Gender Justice

01 Dec, 2018

Uttar Pradesh

Broken but not defeated

Julie,18, is a community mobilizer working with the Creating Spaces project. She is a strong advocate for women’s rights and gender equality and works to get the girls in her village, Bhains...

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Education

15 Nov, 2018

Uttar Pradesh

Her struggle for an education

Tanu* dreams of going to school so she can help her family break out of poverty. Every day she would travel from her slum in Raebareli to study in a nearby Upper Primary School. But due to poor econom...

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Gender Justice

03 Nov, 2018

Chhattisgarh

Scripting Her Own Fate

Gurbari Sidar is a 17 year old girl from Shankatpalli village of Dabhara Block in Chhattisgarh. Just like the other girls in her village, who were married off early, Gurbari’s marriage too was planned...

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Gender Justice

03 Nov, 2018

Chhattisgarh

Breaking Boundaries at Home

“मैं महिलाओं और लड़कियों के जीवन में बदलाव लाने के प्रयास जारी रखूंगा” (I will continue to make efforts to bring changes in lives of women and girls), said Gulab, a young changemaker from Chhattisgarh...

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Gender Justice

03 Nov, 2018

Bihar

Small Steps towards Empowerment

Urmila got married when she was 16-years-old to her 18-year-old husband.  She completely dependent on her husband’s income who worked in a motor-cycle cleaning shop in their village in Siwan dist...

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Education

12 Oct, 2018

Uttar Pradesh

A day in the life of a 16-year-old Rani

Nearly two crore children are out-of-school in India* and most of them belong to the marginalized sector where families struggle to provide a day’s meal *(As per NSS data). Due to household respons...

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