POSHAN Abhiyaan is the Government of India’s flagship programme to improve nutritional standards among pregnant women, lactating mothers, infants, children and adolescents. In an effort to amplify the reach of POSHAN Abhiyaan in rural India through digitisation, Unicef and DEF have come together to organise community dialogues on POSHAN Abhiyaan in 10 states — Jharkhand,…
New year 2019 began with a new Smartpur centre establishment in Rajasthan. Alwar’s centre in Rajasthan is open for the nearby school students to access computer classes for building digital literacy. Later in the month, Republic Day was celebrated with great pomp and show at Bharatpur Hub centre, with village Ladamka’s children, adolescents and youth…
Twenty-year-old Rinki Chouhan lives in a small house with a big family of ten where her father and brother, both daily wage workers, are the only earning members in the household. For a family of ten, the household income is mere Rs. 3000. Rinki is the first person in the house to complete her education…
Established in 2002, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) aims to connect the unreached and underserved communities of India in an effort to bring them out of digital darkness and equip them with access to information, digital literacy, digital tools and last mile connectivity. Over the years, DEF has marked its presence in more than 500 locations…
