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Helping girls deal with issues around menstruation

  GIRDIDH, India: Priya Kumari is in the 8th grade at UMS Arkhango in Giridih district in the central Indian state of Jharkhand. Priya is one of the million girls worldwide who menstruate every month. She had no idea what was happening when she reached her menarche. She rushed to her school’s nodal teacher, who counselled and handed her a pad. It came as a surprise to her when she returned home and told her mother about it.   “I told my mother that I have used a pad, to… Read More

Ashwagandha is spreading happiness amongst farmers!

Dinesh Kumar Dhaakad , son of Shri Amar Lal Dhaakad from Buranhedi village of Khairabad Panchayat Samiti in Kota, owns 9 hectares of land. His family was engaged in conventional farming of mustard, soybean and wheat. However the harvest and income from conventional farming was not turning out to be a profitable deal. Year by year due to some or the other reason such as pest attack, floods or drought, the yield was minimizing. This became an alarming topic for him that if the graph of productivity kept on descending… Read More