Women living in remote Indian villages often live a life marred with hardships. Left alone after spouses, other family members move to cities in search of better work opportunities, they have to take care of their children all by themselves like Uttarakhand’s Guddi Devi. Despite government schemes for rural employment, the villagers who rarely know…
POSHAN Abhiyaan is the Government’s flagship programme to improve nutritional standards among pregnant women, lactating mothers, infants, children and adolescents. In an effort to amplify the scheme’s reach in rural India through digitisation, UNICEF and DEF have collaborated to organise community dialogues in 10 states which has four phases to it. In the ongoing implementation phase, POSHAN Preraks…
18-year-old Ashwini Dandore lives with her mother, father and two siblings in a small, kachcha house in Madhya Pradesh’s Khadla village. Eldest daughter of a farmer and chilli seller, Aswhini wants to be a role model for her siblings so that they too can dream big and work towards achieving their goals. As for her,…
In Smartpur Kanchipuram, a meeting was initiated with the Tamil Nadu Animal Husbandry Department to understand the condition of livestock in villages. On March 30, a one-day training on livestock rearing was organised in Chamarajanagar, Karnataka to help diagnose the prevalent diseases as well. In Rajasthan’s Ardooka, DEF’s on-going campaign #NoMissingVoters was also conducted in…
Internet was introduced in Bhutan in 1999 by the progressive fourth King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck. 1999 to 2008 was a period when there was only one operator, Bhutan Telecom. Internet rates and mobiles were expensive and only rich people could afford it. Today, the usage of social media has rapidly grown in the…
On the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2019, Technology Empowering Girls (TeG) was launched in three districts of Telangana in an effort to end the gender technology gap and empower women and adolescent girls to create innovative solutions to advance equality of their lives and in turn their communities. TeG is an…
On March 12, 2019, DEF launched a day-long campaign to celebrate 30 years of the World Wide Web and the man behind it, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, for changing the information ecosystem and democratising access to information around the world. #Web30 #ForTheWeb
DEF celebrated #InternationalWomensDay by showcasing women at the ground who’re empowering people & bringing positive change. Most of these women/young girls are first-generation digital learner yet the impacts they’ve created is applaudable. /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/01.03.19.mp4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/02.03.19.mp4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/03.03.19.mp4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/04.03.19.mp4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/05.03.19.mp4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/06.03.19.mp4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/07.03.19.mp4
DEF ran a day-long campaign on #FightingFakeNews to help raise awareness on this issue. Needless to say, a collective response and measure to deal with fake news is the need of the hour.
DEF is on a mission to enroll every eligible voter in India to cast their votes, ahead of the #GeneralElections2019
