Women & Child Welfare

You last saw her as a spunky young bride with a mind of her own in the Bollywood movie Pagglait. Frizzy-maned actress Sanya Malhotra is known for her strong cinematic portrayals of inspiring young Indian women. Not only is she a vocal champion for female empowerment, she also makes sustainable life choices and stands...

Adani Wilmar Limited’s Fortune SuPoshan project, which aims to tackle malnourishment by improving nutrition levels among young children, has been successful and has contributed to a significant reduction in malnutrition indicators for women and children, an assessment report of the project has found. The findings have come when India is celebrating September month as...

Over a lakh and a half ASHAs (Accredited Social Health Activists) are going on a strike in Maharashtra from September 24. ASHA workers from Manipur are also expected to protest. They are protesting because of the incentive of Rs. 1,000 from the Central government for testing and contact tracing Covid-19 patients, which they are...

As per the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021, the country has now slipped 28 places to the 140th position in the index. The pandemic has further impacted livelihoods, putting 4 out of every 10 women out of the workforce. A new CSR project called HERS is a step towards bridging this...

It is Women’s Equality Day today. This day marks a turning point in the history of the struggle for equal treatment of women and women’s rights. It was first observed in 1971 to commemorate the event of the 1920 adoption of the 19th Amendment to the US constitution which granted American women the constitutional...

By Joseph Wesley, Head-Anti Trafficking Programme, World Vision India About two lakh people are trafficked in India every year. Children are trafficked because of complex push-and-pull factors including structural poverty, climate change, human right violations and now due to COVID crisis- on the one hand the promise for a better life and on the other...

The patriarchal society of India has led a large chunk of women in the country to become financially dependent on their partners or other male family members. Considering the fact that women bear the responsibility of child rearing and caring, they have often lacked opportunities for financial independence and have been left to care...

Roman Jewellery House Bvlgari is providing immediate emergency responses to mitigate the effects of the pandemic crisis, this time with a significant donation to Save the Children to intervene on the devastating impact COVID-19 has in India. At the beginning of the emergency, news coming from the country were terrifying. The average daily infection rate...

2021 is officially the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour while June 12 is observed as the World Day Against Child Labour. Almost one in ten of all children worldwide are in child labour. While the number of children in child labour has declined by 94 million since 2000, the rate of...

Located at Bhupani Lalpur Road, Faridabad, Satyug Darshan Vidyalaya has announced a provision of free education to the children who have been orphaned due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The school has announced this social initiative under its project “Ummeed Ek Asha Ki Kiran” in the interest of public welfare and on humanitarian grounds, thus...

Tata Communications, a global digital ecosystem enabler, announced the launch of the ‘School of Hope and Empowerment’ (S.H.E.) at the 2021 UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development. S.H.E., a multi-media, multi-stakeholder impact communications initiative to support and educate women from small towns in India to overcome key barriers to entrepreneurship. By leveraging the...

‘Prevention is better than cure'. This is a timeless expression used by governments, companies, parents and countless others to emphasize the importance of putting adequate measures in place that can stop an unfortunate event from occurring rather than having to deal with the consequences of the event. However, a quick glance at the programmatic...