Awareness Programs for Adolescent Girls

This month, we started awareness programs for teen girls. At our first meeting, in a small village, 13 girls participated. Health and hygiene topics were covered, and we read with them the Meena story, 'Free from Worms'. (Most people in the villages are infected...

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New Evening Study Centre

These beautiful girls are from a Dalit Colony (Untouchables), despised by society and separated even from the rest of their village. Last month we started an evening study center in their colony. They and the other children in their colony will receive regular...

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Meetings for pregnant and new mothers

We are continuing to visit different villages to hold awareness programs with mothers. At our latest meeting, we learned that the average birth weight of the children was 2 to 2.5 kg (4.5 to 5.5 lbs.) indicating lack of nutrition during their pregnancy. Also several...

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