DHARTI
Stories from the Field
Teenager Suffering from Menstrual Problem Cured
A 17-year-old teenager suffering from menstrual problems got relief through the efforts of hamsakhi Anusuiya Upadhyay and cluster coordinator Pratima Chaturvedi in Sigrampur village of cluster Ranital in Badamalhara block of Chhatarpur district.
Sigrampur is a village of various communities and it is situated about 15 km away from the block
Severely Anaemic Adolescent Girls Get New Lease of Life
Through continuous efforts of peer educators in Bhadarra village of Kaimaha cluster of Nowgaon block, health checks were done on the adolescent girls. In the health camp, blood tests were done in addition to their weight and general tests. In it, many adolescent girls were found to be suffering from anemia. Then peers along with cluster
Increasing Reach of Small Wings
Health is an important aspect of life which is generally ignored by community and especially by females. They are not serious towards their health. This is because they are not taken seriously in their family right from the childhood. Adolescent girls in the villages are not aware of their basic requirements. They do not even know what they need
Menstruation, an Unaccepted Truth
While on one hand women have reached the moon, there is no change in the status of women of Bundelkhand even today. This was proved once again when two peer educators of Samriddi Project in Bhawanipurwa village, 7 km away from Basaari cluster in Rajnagar block of Chhatarpur district. Cluster coordinator Sunita Srivastava used to organise all the
An Application and the Girls Get Bicycles
When Neha, a girl in Rampur village in Ishanagar block of Chhatarpur district passed class 8, she was very happy. Though the distance of her new school where she would continue studies in class 9 was about 5 km from the village made her little apprehensive, she was excited that she would get a bicycle from the school.
She used to go to the