Sona’s dreams to give back to the community
Sona*, 21 years of age, lives with her family in one of Firozabad’s identified slums in Uttar Pradesh. In this community, about 80% of the households are home-based bangle workers, it has been their livelihood for more than two hundred years and are the biggest manufacturers of glass bangles in the world. Sona and her […]
Every Community Needs a Vijay : From Small Steps to Big Impact
“Your job is very risky,’’ my family always keeps telling me. “Every day I wake up with one aim, to prevent conflicts between humans and animals, to save more lives. Despite of all the risks, I am proud of what I do,’’ Vijay said to the ChildFund team with a smile. Vijay’s job is not […]
A New Hope, A New Life: MUKTI Project
It was a heart wrenching home visit for the ChildFund team, when we first saw Dilip crawling on his hands and legs…
Catalyzing Women’s Participation to Promote Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Eastern Uttar Pradesh
Sobhawati is a small farmer, living in a rural area of Pratapgarh in eastern Uttar Pradesh. She works tirelessly and sacrifices most…
Full Marks for Harini in English!
Harini, a 15-year-old girl from Hyderabad, lives in a small makeshift house with a thatched roof with her parents. Although the parents barely make enough…
The Indomitable Spirit of a COVID Warrior and Survivor
Abhijeet Madane, ChildFund India’s Senior Project Officer, is one of our COVID warriors who has been working in the remote district Junnar block of the…
Nutrition Garden helps Saloni Continue her Studies
Saloni is a 19-year-old girl from Saraiyahat Block of Dumka district in Jharkhand. She is a 12th grade science student who dreams of becoming a…
Being at the Front during the COVID Pandemic
Mahesh Patidar is a ChildFund hero who has been working throughout the pandemic to help people in Madhya Pradesh. Mahesh Patidar works as a Project…
Rebuilding Lives and Vineyard, One Step at a Time
Namita and Tapan are a middle-aged couple with two children in a hamlet in 24 South Parganas district in the backwaters of Sunderbans, West Bengal. The couple and their children were previously engaged in daily-wage jobs but they decided to leave it behind and set up betel leaf farming in their 1/5th acre land a […]
Empowering Adolescents Boys and Girls with Knowledge on Menstruation Can Lead to Big Changes
“Earlier, we didn’t know about sanitary pads. We used a damp cloth or ash or hay during our periods. The damp cloth would give us…
