Stories from the Field
Bringing Health Services to Island Communities
The ship, named ‘Hope’ in Assamese, serves 12 Chapori or Islands in the Dibrugarh District of Assam in northeast India.
Isolated Islanders Support Schools to Educate Their Children Closer to Home
Education Coordinator Juri Gogoi makes her way along a beaten earth path about half a foot wide that twists from the shores of the Brahmaputra River to the Chapori or Island school, a 20-minute walk away
Increasing Awareness about Breastfeeding
Key messages on early and exclusive breastfeeding cascaded into a mass movement as the 27 districts in the state, got on the roll on August 3, organizing district-level meetings and activities.
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.
Child Cabinets take responsibility for handwashing
From tea gardens to islands to slums to shelter homes, 200,000 children across Assam joined to celebrate the Global Handwashing Day.
Red Ribbon Express educates on HIV and AIDS in Assam
When Champa, a village volunteer from Dibrugarh, reached the Tinsukia railway station, she boarded a train but did not expect to travel. This was no ordinary train but the Red Ribbon Express
