In Focus 2009
Inspiring Positive Change Through Popular Entertainment
UNICEF celebrates 200 episodes of its groundbreaking entertainment education serial Kyunki… Jeena Issi Ka Naam Hai.
Kyunki… Jeena Issi Ka Naam Hai - Paving a Path for Positive Change
UNICEF celebrates 200 episodes of its groundbreaking entertainment education serial Kyunki… Jeena Issi Ka Naam Hai.
India @ J8 Summit 2009
UNICEF celebrates 200 episodes of its groundbreaking entertainment education serial Kyunki… Jeena Issi Ka Naam Hai.
Education priority for Indian youth: J8 delegates
UNICEF celebrates 200 episodes of its groundbreaking entertainment education serial Kyunki… Jeena Issi Ka Naam Hai.
J8 Summit 2009
UNICEF celebrates 200 episodes of its groundbreaking entertainment education serial Kyunki… Jeena Issi Ka Naam Hai.
Three Indian youths to attend J8 summit in Rome
Seventeen-year-old Venkatesan is one of the voices representing young India at the Junior 8 summit in Rome this year. Joining him are 16-year old Sanjukta Pangi, from Koraput, Orissa and 15 year old Narendra Kumar from Rae-Bareli, Uttar Pradesh.
UNICEF: J8 meets G8
Junior 8: Climate change targets must be met, teachers’ standards improved
Young delegates represent India at J8 Summit
UNICEF celebrates 200 episodes of its groundbreaking entertainment education serial Kyunki… Jeena Issi Ka Naam Hai.
J8 Summit in Pictures
UNICEF celebrates 200 episodes of its groundbreaking entertainment education serial Kyunki… Jeena Issi Ka Naam Hai.
Kyunki... Celebrates Women
Juhi’s migration from Bihar to Delhi at a young age and subsequent odd jobs meant she was not able to get an education. Despite being the sole earner for her family, Juhi frequently suffers from violence and humiliation within her own home
Kyunki… Lighting up a brighter path for women
Shabnam, early twenties, married, is chided by her parents for standing up to her violent husband when he accuses her of being infertile.
Towards a healthier India for mothers and children
It is paradoxical that India is at once a nation with one of the highest populations of young people and also a country facing very high rates of infant and maternal mortality.
Safe deliveries and safety from mosquitoes: Assam pilots bundling of services to promote maternal health and malaria prevention
When Farida Begum went to deliver, her first baby, at Lahorighat Primary Health Centre (PHC); she came back holding more than her little son, Suhail Alam.
Saving lives of children and women in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh: Just a call away
Around 5 pm on December 26, expectant mother Halki Bai of Berkhari village felt the first contractions of labour. Her husband, Raja Kewat, a farmer, rushed to inform the village health worker, Shamim Bano, that Halki was ready for delivery.
Just born and surviving against all odds
Hemalata is a proud mother of a young baby boy. The only difference is that unlike most new babies born healthy, her son had to fight to survive.
Keeping attitudes positive
“No one can really imagine the lives we lead. We cannot share our pain with anyone else because no one will understand us. We can only open our hearts up to NGOs and health workers, not with friends or family”.
