Girl child

This girl, once left with no trace of her of family, now has hundreds of couple lining up outside the Child welfare committee office in Moradabad for adoption - thanks to local and national media who picked her story.

In a bid to stop the school’s closure, Laxmi and Nishmitha travel almost 60 km, walking an hour one way to reach the school.

After being on the radar for recording a staggering gender gap in its under-five mortality rate, the state has finally managed to redeem itself and bridge it in 2016, according to the Registrar General of India’s latest report.

Kususm along with a few friends started an initiative called Balika to support adolescent girls like her in getting an education.

She is being considered a real life hero and her story is a sharp retort to all those who consider daughters to be inferior to sons.

She stood among the toppers of her batch of Masters of Science in Digital Society with a score of 3.82 out of 4 CGPA in her post graduation

A young teenager’s fight to make her city and community safer for girls and women has inspired her family members to join the cause and spread the word about women’s safety as well.

Once topping the charts in child marriages in the country, Bihar has reduced the incidence of this social evil considerably, helped by innovative interventions such as starting girls clubs for solidarity, and encouraging them to play football.

Narsamma, a young girl from Andhra Pradesh, has been able to put a life of servitude behind her to focus on studies, thanks to the concerted efforts of a group of well-wishers.

Talking about topics like menstruation and menstrual health can be difficult in rural India. Recognising this, a team of volunteers decided to create a space where young girls from a Rajasthan village could discuss these topics without fear.