Stories From the Field 2009
Breastfeeding – The Easy Way To Save Lives
It was 9.00 a.m. Subhash Stadium usually deserted at this hour, was abuzz with activity. Loudspeakers blasting jingles, vans, sumo carrires, cycle rickshaws....
Muslim teenage girls put forth charter of demands
Questioning and deploring studied silence over their basic problems, Muslim girls living in some of Lucknow's poorest ghettos have put forward their manifesto, which they believe will lend a larger voice to their demands and grievances
New tools to combat Maternal Mortality in Bihar
24-year old Neela Devi was due for her first delivery. Her husband, Bhushan Kumar, a 28-year old labourer working at a construction site in Delhi as a manual labourer, could not come home to be with her because of the prohibitive cost of travel.
UNICEF Proud to Partner with State-wide Campaign on Total Sanitation in Bihar
In an effort to create a people’s movement around the issue of improved sanitation, the Chief Minister of Bihar, Mr. Nitish Kumar, flagged off the Bihar Gram Gaurav Yatra at the historical Fort grounds of Rajgrih
ADEPTS – An innovative strategy to improve educational performance through teacher support
Children from English medium school are now seeking transfer to our school. Last year, around thirteen students took a transfer from private schools to our government primary school,” proudly says the Head Teacher of Magodh Dungri Primary School.
UNICEF catalyzes production of iodized salt
Whereas production of common salt marked the beginning of the first revolution in Gujarat, production of “iodized common salt” by Vasudhara Dairy is being described as the second revolution in the state.
The UP Red Ribbon Road Express takes off
It was a star studded evening for a social cause and AIDS awareness got a fillip with singers and comedians getting together with Lucknowites to express their concern at a musical evening organized at Ravindralaya auditorium in Charbagh on January 30.
Street Smart to Life Smart: Adolescents in Guwahati learn to cope with life’s challenges
Practise first and then ask others to follow. This seems to be the mantra which is moving hundreds of under-privileged adolescents in Guwahati, to usher a change in their life and that of their peers and community.
HIV parents disclose their status
“When my children were taken for immunization to the Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) she refused to attend to them until I showed her a certificate of their negative status.
