International Women's Day 2021: According to Siddharth Chaturvedi, Consultant at The World Bank, for every rupee earned by the woman of the household, 90 per cent is spent on the education, health, nutrition and general wellbeing of the family as against 30-40 per cent by a man ...
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Women's Day Special
Women’s Day Special
On this International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate the army of women working relentlessly on the frontlines as Anganwadi workers and ASHA workers to ensure that health and nutrition support reach the children and women of the country ...
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UN Women's Anita Bhatia highlighted that the impact of the care burden that women has increased because of the COVID-19 pandemic ...
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International women’s day: NDTV spoke to three women Corona warriors, who have been on COVID-19 duty from as early as February, 2020. They share their work, challenges and learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic ...
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International Women's Day 2021: In 2016, Population Foundation of India, a Delhi based non-profit organisation, launched a campaign in Darbhanga and Nawada district of Bihar to educate young adults about reproductive and sexual health which paved the way for menstrual hygiene in the district ...
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It is important also to educate the community to dispel harmful myths on nutrition of young children, adolescent girls and pregnant and lactating women. Men’s involvement is particularly crucial as the key enabler to meeting women’s nutrition needs: World Food Programme ...
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Varanasi’s Diksha and Deepika risked their health to ensure every girl in their community has access to menstrual hygiene during the COVID-19 lockdown ...
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Bihar’s Pawan Rekha Devi broke the shackles of orthodoxy and welcomed a new era of health and well being for her children ...
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Owing to their on ground work in Uttarakhand, NGO SheWings realised that the major barrier faced by women in accessing menstrual hygiene products, is not having undergarments ...
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Hailing from Sitapur, one of India's most backward districts, 60-year-old Kalavati Devi’s spirit of making toilet accessible to the poor contributed in the construction of a 50-seat facility ina slum in Kanpur ...
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23-year-old Sneha Mohandoss started a Food Bank in 2015 before the Chennai floods with an aim to fight hunger and to create a hunger-free nation ...
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Years of gender bias has meant that women have been denied basics like access to nutritious food, sanitation and health care facilities, so this Women’s Day, we look at some of the critical health issues faced by women in India
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