Aarohan
Covid-19 overhang to seriously cripple Next Gen leadership, warns Aarohan at Leadership seminar
November 24, 2022
Clear warning about the crippling impact of Covid-19 on the quality of the next generation of national leadership was one of the key takeaways of the 2nd National Summit on Leadership in Positivity & Awards 2022, that was recently organised by Movement of Positivity in New De...
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Taali to trash transgender taboo
October 20, 2022
Gauri Sawant hit the national headlines in 2017 when her life and struggles were portrayed in an advertisement by pain balm brand Vicks, made by Procter & Gamble. In the film, Gauri’s adopted daughter Gayatri narrates the story of her mother’s life and how adoption change...
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Femina Miss India Second Runner Up 2022 visits NGO Aarohan
July 21, 2022
To spread the message about the crucial importance of education in the modern society, second runner-up Femina Miss India 2022 Shinata Chauhan visited Aarohan, an NGO in New Delhi that works to promote education and skill development amongst underprivileged children as wel...
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School educates students on transgender discrimination
March 12, 2022
On March 10, Indradhanush, an initiative to make the transgender community part of the mainstream society was launched by Aarohan, an NGO working with underprivileged children in New Delhi, and M M Public School in Pitampura, north-west Delhi. The event was organised by the schoo...
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Bill to raise minimum age of marriage for girls disconnected from reality: Activists
December 25, 2021
Since Union Women and Child Development minister Smriti Irani moved the Child Marriage Amendment Bill 2021 in Lok Sabha, opinions on social media have been widely divided on the utility of the amendment. Since the introduction of the bill, it has faced criticism from the oppositi...
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International Day of the Girl Child 2021: Pandemic widens gender gap in India
October 11, 2021
Initiated in 1995 at Beijing’s World Conference on Women, the idea of International Day of the Girl Child was born due to the necessity of recognition and redressal of specific challenges faced by girls around the world, and uplift them in society through progress in their educ...
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Covid-19 vaccines: Delhi NGOs help transgenders overcome discrimination & distrust
September 17, 2021
For the first time since the pandemic hit India and especially after the deadly second wave earlier this year, that left the capital anxious and panicked as it struggled against a virus that left thousands dead every day, Tanvi, is feeling a bit relaxed. The...
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Israeli embassy partners with Aarohan to take drip irrigation to schools
August 4, 2021
On Wednesday, the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi along with Aarohan, an NGO that helps underprivileged children access proper education and skill training, participated in an inauguration ceremony to establish usage of a drip irrigation system at Nehru Smarak Inter College in Great...
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World Day Against Child Labour: Pandemic paralyses battle to end child labour
June 12, 2021
Thirteen-year-old Muskaan is a very shy and soft-spoken girl. So soft-spoken that one would be tempted incessantly to ask her to repeat herself. But Muskaan, who lives with her parents and 5 other siblings in a slum near Malviya Nagar in New Delhi, is emphatic that chil...
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