In today’s fast-paced, technology-driven world, mental health awareness has become more critical than ever, especially for the most vulnerable members of society—children and adolescents. In India, mental health is still shrouded in stigma, often going unaddressed, particularly among marginalized communities. The ManoShakti school mental health project, launched in 2015, seeks to break this silence and […]

As a social media & digital content intern at KHUSHII, I recently had the opportunity to attend a teacher training session under the flagship programme Manobal. Before attending the session, I had read about the programme itself, and my interest was piqued as the approach was not only innovative but also grounded in reality. Manobal […]

Do you remember your first periods/menarche? Did anyone tell you what periods are and why they happen? Or did you have the same fate as many girls in India that you found yourself perplexed and didn’t know, why suddenly there was blood coming out of your private part (Vagina)? Or did you see pads lying […]

Manoshakti: Illuminating Young Lives Through a Year Long Program for Underprivileged Children In a world marked by disparities, a beacon of hope shines bright through a transformative initiative – the “Manoshakti: My Moment of Joy” program. Spanning a year, this project has been silently rewriting the narratives of underprivileged children. The Global Context Globally, an […]

Yuvashree, a class 8th student, the eldest in a four-member family from Padappai, Chennai, was unable to express herself and froze when asked to come up in front of her class or on stage. An active learner and passionate about sports, Yuvashree hit a brick wall because of growing anxiety. So much so that she […]

The COVID-19 pandemic and extreme poverty have added to the challenges female students’ face living in a predominantly patriarchal society. One of the impacts is on menstruating girls. Menstrual absorbents are essential for self-respect, physical and psychosocial wellbeing. Lack of access to menstrual absorbents causes girls to miss school. They feel embarrassed going to school […]

School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed lesser privileged children and families into multidimensional poverty. The schools shut down has deprived them not only of education but also healthcare, nutrition, clean water, the company of friends, and entertainment such as outdoor play. “The share of children without access to education, water, sanitation, and […]

Introduction to SH&RE SH&RE (Sexual Health and Reproduction Education) is an initiative that seeks to build access to sexual and reproductive healthcare education for women from underprivileged communities in India, with an emphasis on anganwadi workers and young women from local communities. This Handbook, as an extension of the initiative, serves as a guide to […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit different strata of society in distinctively catastrophic ways. Impaired by disruption of education in their formative years, the young ones are the most affected by catastrophic impacts affecting an entire generation. In mid-April 2020, according to UNESCO, 192 countries abruptly shut schools across the globe to contain the spread of […]

SH&RE (Sexual Health and Reproduction Education) is an initiative that seeks to build opportunities for training and awareness in sexual and reproductive healthcare for women from disadvantaged communities, particularly the anganwadi workers and adolescents from local communities. SH&RE is led by Noor Sawhney, student of Wellington College, UK, chosen over a pool of applicants in […]

Empowering women with livelihood skills and opportunities as a step towards creating income security for marginalised households is a core intervention of KHUSHII’s community development programme.

In her short life of 29 years, Savitri has seen enough tragedy and suffering to break the bravest of persons. She lost her father to cancer when she was just ten. At barely 16, an age where she should have been in school, her family got her married. She had three children. But even there, life found a way to be unkind. She lost her husband in 2015, leaving her and the three children alone, with no kith or kin to take care of them.

Just like any regular routine, the counsellor Ms. Deepika Singh was keen on selecting an interesting topic for the students in intervention school in Mumbai. With her past two years of experience, many cases of bullying were reported to her. Initially she would hear out the cases of the victims in individual sessions. However, this […]

Skill building of Youth through General Duty Attendant Course “Youth like us cannot afford the expensive courses like nursing, hotel management. GDA gave us the opportunity to earn a decent income in medical field and save for future studies” Muskan,18 General Duty Attendant (GDA) Course and its scope General Duty Attendants, commonly known as…