MILES TO GO BEFORE WE SLEEP
by Meera Satpathy After personally witnessing the immense difficulties faced by slum dwellers in and around Delhi to access basic health care, some friends and...
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Once again, daring to dream reaping benefits of non-formal remedial education
by Meera Satpathy The yellow mobile school bus that drove in every week into the cramped lanes of Rangpuri Pahadi slums locality was such a...
Multiple approaches needed to counter vaccine hesitancy in rural India and urban slums
by Meera Satpathy When one of the husbands of our beneficiaries in the urban slum of Gurugram where we run several projects, hesitantly walked up...
How many more Soniyas will we lose to apathy at the hands of an insensitive health system
by Meera Satpathy You pride yourself on being an NGO that is dedicated to adolescent health, maternal and child care and to working with the...
Every child deserves to have a bellyful of food
by Meera Satpathy Shyama is a 13-year old rag picker who lives in Sector 56 Slums an urban slum of the Millennium city of Gurugram....
COVID-19 induced hunger crisis for women and children: Is anyone listening?
by Meera Satpathy Women and children as we already know, are bearing a disproportionate burden of the pandemic induced health and food crisis. At last...
This Mother’s Day, let’s give hope a chance
by Meera Satpathy More than two decades ago I had a chance conversation with a neighbour’s house-help who I happened to meet on my evening...
COVID-19 and increased risk of malnutrition burden on women and children in India
by Meera Satpathy In a virtual press conference held in June this year about maternal, child and adolescent health during the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO...
Sukarya on its mission of “Nutrition for Women & Children” in slums/villages
by Meera Satpathy “I am a MOTHER, I deserve to be loved and supported. I have a child and I have the courage to ask...
An intervention for a decade & more in Mewat
by Meera Satpathy I always go back by almost a decade to remember what really prompted me to change a career from running a business...