A mother is a mentor.  She is a world to a child and it is she who protects, nourishes and bestows her child with love and care. It is she who sacrifices in life to give. There are many reported cases of women being victims but who remain strong for the love of their children and relatives.  That is true in Kasungu as well. Victoria Dzanjo is just one good example of women who have gone through extremely tough times but came out as stars....
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Motherhood – a beautiful reality of a woman’s existence. There are however some who do not experience beauty and joy but rather feel anxious and worried about being mothers. Most women in the Lalpur Guman village of Barabanki district, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, fall into the latter category.For most of the women in this area, the fear of survival is the biggest anxiety that takes away all the happiness and excitement out of pregnancy. For generations they have seen women in their village...
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Twenty years ago, Suman was born in the confines of a thatched hut; her home before she got married at the age of 16. Her mother didn’t consume iron tablets, or undergo regular prenatal check-ups during any of her 6 pregnancies, much like the other women in the village. Lack of facilities, but more importantly, lack of awareness prevented them from knowing better. Today, the same cannot be said about Suman, who is expecting her second child.I met Suman during my visit to a “Mother’s...
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Recently Join My Village asked girls in Malawi and India to create art work that could be used to make cards for Mother’s around the world. It was fun, it was imaginative and above all it was a true reflection of how creative our girls can be. The colorful images of mothers, villages and flowers were created by our girls as part of showing how passionate they are towards different things. In Malawi, it was a free for all and when the day came, the girls...
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For decades, India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh has been performing poorly on many socio-economic fronts. Leading amongst these are exceptionally high maternal and infant mortality rates. Often, pregnancy and child birth are accompanied by several avoidable complications and risks like disease, infection and even death. In the face of all this, and to combat such problems, CARE is implementing a project to help pregnant women in rural Uttar Pradesh gain access to information, resources and support groups. The project works on individual, household and...
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