Baby Fathima Laiba was admitted to Kannur Pariyaram Medical College with a critical heart condition and with her health deteriorating, it was decided to shift her to Sri Chitra Institute in Thiruvananthapuram.
Refusing to resign to fate, this young girl, who was once only known as the abandoned kid who hailed from a broken home in the neighbourhood, is a state swimming champion now.
The scheme will not just facilitate free sanitary napkins but storage spaces for napkins and environment-friendly incinerators also at all government & aided schools in the state.
This programme, which will be launched in December, comes as a boon for senior citizens who live alone and are unable to take proper care of themselves.
Under the project proposal, one of the guidelines includes forbidding the hospitals from charging any amount of medical fee from the relatives of a victim for the first 48 hours of treatment.
Today, nearly 5 million women are a part of Kudumbashree, making it the world’s largest women empowerment project. And all this in a state one-tenth the size of California.