Women & Child Welfare

Periods have been a major taboo in India. The hush-hush around the topic has made it difficult to address the issues surrounding it. Breaking the taboo, Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket team Rajasthan Royals has brought the limelight back on the subject of periods. Menstrual Hygiene Issues in India Issues pertaining to periods involve issues related...

Metropolis Healthcare Ltd, one of India’s leading and renowned diagnostic company, has won the India CSR award for “Too Shy To Ask” App, a dedicated gender education and awareness application targeted towards teenagers and their parents. The project is executed by WE Foundation, a registered NGO working in the area of Adolescent and Reproductive Health...

Acid Attack survivors are subjected to judgement over the way they look, making it impossible for them to lead a normal life in society. Owing to such a behaviour of people towards them, they often suffer from confidence issues making it difficult for them to be surrounded by people. Few, however, succeed in fighting...

On the auspicious occasion of Raksha Bandhan, more than 80 children of SOS Children’s Villages in Faridabad sent rakhis and handmade cards to doctors and Corona warriors of Max Healthcare hospitals, including Max Smart Super Specialty Hospital at Saket and BLK Super Specialty Hospital at Pusa Road in Delhi. The colourful, vibrant cards, hand-made by children, carried messages to the...

Vidya Balan's latest film Shakuntala Devi is an inspiration to all women who want to strike it on their own. "The spirit of thousands of women entrepreneurs resonates in multi-hyphenate Shakuntala Devi’s grit, determination and passion to beat all odds to follow her dreams. Throughout the promotions of the film, I have exclusively worn...

Girl child education is a joke in our country. Girls bear the burden of cooking and cleaning growing up yet are considered a burden. Most girls in rural areas still don't go to school, leave alone higher education. In fear of exploitation and abuse, many girls are not sent to school and kept at...

Since the time lockdown started, the content consumption on digital media has soared to new heights. Many interesting shows and movies got released on the OTT platform to cash in on this phenomenon. One such Indian show that got a lot of positive reviews was also referred to as “unnecessarily dark” by some. A...

Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields are rather rare even today. The conversation around this has gained limelight all over again with the new Vidya Balan movie on the biography of the famous Indian Mathematician Shakuntala Devi. Women in STEM As technological development takes place across the globe, the jobs in STEM fields...

Instagram campaign #ChallengeAccepted has drawn over 4.1 million posts. The hashtag has gone viral, with women of all ages posting black-and-white selfies and tagging other women to do the same in a display of solidarity. The campaign began somewhere in Turkey and has gathered momentum in India, with Tennis player Sania Mirza, actresses Sonam...

Challenges to education have been exacerbated by restrictions due to COVID-19, especially for those from poorer backgrounds or in remote areas. It has become a challenge for government, caregivers, teachers and parents to ensure in providing quality education in the pandemic. Educating kids online The need for physical distancing has suddenly led to most schools resorting...

Specialty Chemicals Company LANXESS handed over two buses to the beneficiaries for transportation of government school students and differently-abled children in the town of Nagda. The donation was part of CSR projects committed by the company for the year 2019-2020 under which five projects were implemented with an expenditure of over INR 1.6 crores...

COVID-19 pandemic has disadvantaged the entire world in more ways than one can count. Of all the people that have been affected by the pandemic, the lives of children have been disrupted in the worst possible way at this time. According to a report released by the United Nations, children are the biggest victims of...