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The 'Avon Ladies' Of Pakistan Selling Contraception Door To Door

A scheme training local women to deliver birth control pills to homes hopes to reduce maternal mortality and poverty
rom 8am to 4pm, 25-year-old Samina Khaskheli trav...

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Gender

Hit Hard By Climate Change, Rural Women In Sundarbans Turn Photographers

In the Bengali language ‘Sundarban’ can be literally translated as ‘beautiful forest’. A World Heritage Site, the area is the largest block of conti...

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Health

Premature Deliveries, Low Birth Weight Major Causes Of Infant Deaths: Maharashtra Govt Audit

The audit for the Pune circle from April 2015 to March 2016 reported 89 maternal deaths from Pune rural, followed by 59 from Solapur and 25 from Satara. A total of 1,201 in...

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Health

Measuring What Works: Evaluating Women’s Groups On Maternal Health Uptake In Rural Nepal

Last month Women’s Deliver Conference in Copenhagen was a turning point for the future of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with regards to women and girls&rsq...

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Hollywood

Katy Perry Visits Vietnam With UNICEF

Following a visit to Vietnam, internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Katy Perry is calling for increased focus on children being left be...

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Health

In Rwanda, A Phone Text Can Save A Baby

Using an old mobile phone, health worker Floride Uwinkesha logs the latest local pregnancy, part of efforts in Rwanda to boost maternal health through a monitoring programm...

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Bollywood

Aamir Khan Adopts Two Drought Affected Villages In Maharashtra.

Aamir Khan, who has always extended his support towards varied social causes, has decided to do something for the drought affected regions in Maharashtra. With several Boll...

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Sustainable Development

Mechanical Engineer Quits Job To Build Pond In A Village

After quitting his job as an engineer, Shashank Singh decided to take up a development project in rural Rajasthan. Today, he is living in a village, helping rejuvenate a po...

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Human Rights

How Women Silently Campaign For Their Share Of Water

Many women in Mokhadatehsil of Maharashtra have donned the role of social workers and they are visiting one village after the other, silently campaigning for their rightful...

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Kishore Fights Poverty And Polio To Become A Leading Gym Instructor

A dynamic and highly energetic gym trainer, V. M. Kishore Kumar personifies the example of victory over nature’s predicament. Read the story of how this young man wor...

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