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CAPTION: Mahila Samakhya takes on young women who’ve been abandoned or sexually abused, and teaches them with a view to mainstreaming them back into society, including the area of sexual and reproductive rights. It is a national-level NGO, and is working in 11 districts in Jharkhand. Last year, EngenderHealth worked with the Government to bring Mahila Samakhya into the Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) (National Adolescent Health Program). They have since trained 27 Sayogini and district-level trainers on adolescent issues. From these, they identified 14 to train outreach and frontline workers in facilitation. They are now organizing trainings in the field, contributing to demand generation for adolescent health services. In this image, Aditi Ranjan has arrived at Mahila Samakhya's residential school in Ratu, Ranchi with Dr Satya Mohapatra. The latter is the Program Manager of the Tarunya ARSH India programme; Aditi is the Senior Program Officer with responsibility for four districts in Jharkhand, including Ranchi. LOCATION: Mahila Samakhya, Ratu (block), Ranchi (city), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Adults, from left to right: Aditi Ranjan, Dr Satya Mohapatra and Rajni Lakra; children: multiple people.

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CAPTION: Mahila Samakhya takes on young women who’ve been abandoned or sexually abused, and teaches them with a view to mainstreaming them back into society, including the area of sexual and reproductive rights. It is a national-level NGO, and is working in 11 districts in Jharkhand. Last year, EngenderHealth worked with the Government to bring Mahila Samakhya into the Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) (National Adolescent Health Program). They have since trained 27 Sayogini and district-level trainers on adolescent issues. From these, they identified 14 to train outreach and frontline workers in facilitation. They are now organizing trainings in the field, contributing to demand generation for adolescent health services. In this image, Aditi Ranjan has arrived at Mahila Samakhya's residential school in Ratu, Ranchi with Dr Satya Mohapatra. The latter is the Program Manager of the Tarunya ARSH India programme; Aditi is the Senior Program Officer with responsibility for four districts in Jharkhand, including Ranchi. LOCATION: Mahila Samakhya, Ratu (block), Ranchi (city), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Adults, from left to right: Aditi Ranjan, Dr Satya Mohapatra and Rajni Lakra; children: multiple people.