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Arti Bai Valmiki
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Tribals from Madhya Pradesh Forcefully Evicted
54 families, who have been living in forests for generations, were forcefully removed overnight.
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Walked Home 500 KMs and Locked-Up in Isolation Centre With No Food | COVID 19...
The many millions who walked back to their homes in villages as cities locked down, were in for a rude shock when they reached. In Batiyagarh, people arriving from Indore city were taken to three makeshift isolation centres. Unfortunately, the overworked system is unable to provide food or medical attention...
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Nomadic Community Deprived of Access to Safe Water
Women and girls across the world spend 200 million hours every day fetching water; what is worse is that in many cases, this water, often contaminated, only leads to disease.
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Child Care Centre Runs for 20 Years Without a Building
Running in a makeshift community hall, an anganwadi leaves women and children without essential services.
IMPACT | Mid-day meals started in school
Batiyagarh, Damoh, Madhya Pradesh | Arti Bai Valmik 201 kids starved every day in this school because no mid-day meals were being distributed. Correspondent Arti Bai took immediate action to ensure the meals were resumed for the children in Bakayan. The children and their parents are happy now. This is their...
Impact: Power to the people
Power to the People In 2005 the Government of India launched a nation-wide scheme to ensure rural electricity infrastructure and electrification of all households with special provisions and subsidies for underprivileged households. In this interview, Arti Bai details how a little camera coupled with a lot of determination has successfully...
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Toilets after an year in Sahjadpur
In the year 2014 in Sahjadpur village, Madhya Pradesh there were nearly more than 300 (110 BPL & 197 job card) people living without toilet facility. There was not a single public or private toilet in an entire village. Under the Maryada Abhiyan campaign in Madhya Pradesh 100 toilets supposed...
Impact: Procuring the Right to Food
Community Correspondent Arti Bai Valmiki’s report got the administration to improve the quality of Midday Meals for 237 students in the primary school of Batiagarh District of Madhya Pradesh. “We don’t get rotis to eat at home, so we come to school in hope of food,” a student of the...