Tag: Community Correspondent
Impact – Educated about their rights, women get hand-pump repaired in Bihar
Ignorance kept this village water-less for almost two months. The village hand-pump, which is a sole source of safe, hygienic drinking for many villages in India, was broken after wear and tear. However, the villagers did not know whom to approach in the government, in order to complain about the...
Wanted: An Anganwadi for our children!
For many in India, government schemes come after a long wait and a hard fight. The 42 children in remote Parivachhapar village in Chhattisgarh have learnt this lesson early in life. They have no access to a government run child-care or anganwadi centre which is supposed to provide them with...
Help Make This Child Care Centre Safe
Laxmi Lanse an Anganwadi worker has been entrusted by her community to take of their children at the local anganwadi (child care centre). She does her best to give the children a pre-school education with the limited resources she has at hand. Her biggest fear at this moment is that...
The ( Lack Of ) Girls Toilet
The RTE Act mandates that each school must have a separate toilet for girls and boys. Three years after its implementation, there are thousands of schools across India that do not fulfil this requirement. VV-PACS Correspondent Rekha Bhangre reports one such case from Seoni District Madhya Pradesh. The Marzhor Primary...