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  • CAPTION: The trainer is teaching the girls about the menstrual cycle, what it means for them, and how they can take care of their needs after it begins. LOCATION: Mahila Samakhya, Ratu (block), Ranchi (city), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Adult: Rajni Lakra; children: Salomi Horo (standing front), Holika Lakraand (standing back) and multiple other people.
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  • CAPTION: The trainer is teaching the girls about the menstrual cycle, what it means for them, and how they can take care of their needs after it begins. LOCATION: Mahila Samakhya, Ratu (block), Ranchi (city), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Adult: Rajni Lakra; children: multiple people.
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  • CAPTION: Until the age of five, Naveen - who has cerebral palsy - was confined to his bed. That was the point at which he got his first life-changing surgery, after which he started to receive training from Mobility India. Rehabilitation Therapy Assistant (RTA) Kavitha patiently worked with him on a one-to-one basis, teaching him how to stand, balance and walk. Since then, he has been an enthusiastic participant at his local After-School Club (ASC). In this image, we see him standing on his own two feet at the front of his class, leading his fellow attendees in a Kannada literacy session under the watchful eye of his ASC tutor. LOCATION: Mallianpura (village), Kasaba (hobli), Chamrajnagar (district), Karnataka (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Naveen Kumar N. (boy) and Vathsalakumari (woman).
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  • CAPTION: Madhushree has a profound learning disability. Chinnaswamy and his family are determined that in spite of this, she should be able to enjoy a gradually improving quality of life. To assist with making this a reality, Mobility India have helped to draw up an Individual Education Plan (IEP) that is tailored to Madhushree’s specific needs. Together with her local After-School Club (ASC) coordinators, her family have resolved to work with her to meet each goal that’s been set in this plan in turn. Activities in Madhushree’s plan include brushing her teeth, eating and bathing without support and identifying colours. LOCATION: Heggotara (village), Kasaba (hobli), Chamrajnagar (district), Karnataka (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: From left to right: Chinnaswamy, Madhushree and Asha.
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  • CAPTION: Mobility India's Sudhamani R. trains Drakshayani in the skills she'll need as an After-School Club (ASC) Coordinator. LOCATION: Handrakalli Mole (village), Kasaba (hobli), Chamrajnagar (district), Karnataka (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: From left to right: Sudhamani R., Chinnu and Drakshayani.
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  • CAPTION: Sahiya Anupma Soren takes a monthly session with the 15-19-year olds. The discussion covers delaying the age of marriage, antenatal care, where the ARSH clinic is and what it does, the methods of family planning that the facility can help with, and what their respective pros and cons are. The Government requires these sessions to be conducted monthly. Sahiyas are given an incentive of ₹ 75 per session they lead. The girls are asked to come on a regular basis, as the knowledge imparted builds over time. LOCATION: Pawra Anganwadi Centre (AWC), Ghatshila (block), Purbi Singhbhum (district), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: From left to right: Anupma Soren, Pritilata Giope, Sarshati Hansda, Maya Namata, Kajal Namata and Sunita Murmu .
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  • CAPTION: Sahiya Anupma Soren takes a monthly session with the 15-19-year olds. The discussion covers delaying the age of marriage, antenatal care, where the ARSH clinic is and what it does, the methods of family planning that the facility can help with, and what their respective pros and cons are. The Government requires these sessions to be conducted monthly. Sahiyas are given an incentive of ₹ 75 per session they lead. The girls are asked to come on a regular basis, as the knowledge imparted builds over time. LOCATION: Pawra Anganwadi Centre (AWC), Ghatshila (block), Purbi Singhbhum (district), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: From left to right: Anupma Soren, Pritilata Giope, Sarshati Hansda, Maya Namata and Kajal Namata.
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  • CAPTION: Sahiya Anupma Soren takes a monthly session with the 15-19-year olds. The discussion covers delaying the age of marriage, antenatal care, where the ARSH clinic is and what it does, the methods of family planning that the facility can help with, and what their respective pros and cons are. The Government requires these sessions to be conducted monthly. Sahiyas are given an incentive of ₹ 75 per session they lead. The girls are asked to come on a regular basis, as the knowledge imparted builds over time. LOCATION: Pawra Anganwadi Centre (AWC), Ghatshila (block), Purbi Singhbhum (district), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: From left to right: Anupma Soren, Pritilata Giope, Sarshati Hansda, Maya Namata and Kajal Namata.
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  • CAPTION: Under the Chamkol programme, every disabled member of the community has an Individual Health Plan (IHP). For Netrawati, who has scoliosis, this means following a tailor-made exercise regime. During regular visits to her home, Rehabilitation Therapy Assistant (RTA) Kavitha shows both her and her mother Nagamma what they need to do. LOCATION: Mallianpura (village), Kasaba (hobli), Chamrajnagar (district), Karnataka (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: From left to right: Netrawati, Kavitha M.L. and Nagamma.
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  • CAPTION: Mantesh, who has a learning disability, hardly communicates with other children or even with his parents. His family is keen for him to get involved in the local Chamkol programme-supported After School Club (ASC), but feels the challenge lies in getting him to attend and participate. His case worker will therefore be working with him according to his Individual Education Plan (IEP) to help him develop his self-belief, and also with his mother, who needs encouragement to believe in him. LOCATION: Mallianpura (village), Kasaba (hobli), Chamrajnagar (district), Karnataka (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Mantesh (left) and Vathsalakumari (right).
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  • CAPTION: Inclusive Education Resource Teachers (IERTs) such as Kiran are one of the government's primary resources for inclusive education, and great allies for the Chamkol programme. They are responsible for identifying those children who have special educational needs and assessing what should be provided for them. Here, Kiran is leading a training session of parents and siblings of people with learning disabilities. LOCATION: Haradanahalli (village), Haradanahalli (hobli), Chamrajnagar (district), Karnataka (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Kiran.
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  • CAPTION: Sahiya Anupma Soren takes a monthly session with the 15-19-year olds. The discussion covers delaying the age of marriage, antenatal care, where the ARSH clinic is and what it does, the methods of family planning that the facility can help with, and what their respective pros and cons are. The Government requires these sessions to be conducted monthly. Sahiyas are given an incentive of ₹ 75 per session they lead. The girls are asked to come on a regular basis, as the knowledge imparted builds over time. LOCATION: Pawra Anganwadi Centre (AWC), Ghatshila (block), Purbi Singhbhum (district), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: From left to right: Anupma Soren, Pritilata Giope, Sarshati Hansda, Maya Namata, Kajal Namata, Anjana Hembrom and Sunita Murmu.
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  • CAPTION: Sahiya Anupma Soren takes a monthly session with the 15-19-year olds. The discussion covers delaying the age of marriage, antenatal care, where the ARSH clinic is and what it does, the methods of family planning that the facility can help with, and what their respective pros and cons are. The Government requires these sessions to be conducted monthly. Sahiyas are given an incentive of ₹ 75 per session they lead. The girls are asked to come on a regular basis, as the knowledge imparted builds over time. LOCATION: Pawra Anganwadi Centre (AWC), Ghatshila (block), Purbi Singhbhum (district), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: From left to right: Anupma Soren, Pritilata Giope, Sarshati Hansda, Maya Namata and Kajal Namata.
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  • CAPTION: Sahiya Anupma Soren takes a monthly session with the 15-19-year olds. The discussion covers delaying the age of marriage, antenatal care, where the ARSH clinic is and what it does, the methods of family planning that the facility can help with, and what their respective pros and cons are. The Government requires these sessions to be conducted monthly. Sahiyas are given an incentive of ₹ 75 per session they lead. The girls are asked to come on a regular basis, as the knowledge imparted builds over time. LOCATION: Pawra Anganwadi Centre (AWC), Ghatshila (block), Purbi Singhbhum (district), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: From left to right: Anupma Soren, Pritilata Giope, Sarshati Hansda, Maya Namata and Kajal Namata.
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  • CAPTION: Sahiya Anupma Soren takes a monthly session with the 15-19-year olds. The discussion covers delaying the age of marriage, antenatal care, where the ARSH clinic is and what it does, the methods of family planning that the facility can help with, and what their respective pros and cons are. The Government requires these sessions to be conducted monthly. Sahiyas are given an incentive of ₹ 75 per session they lead. The girls are asked to come on a regular basis, as the knowledge imparted builds over time. LOCATION: Pawra Anganwadi Centre (AWC), Ghatshila (block), Purbi Singhbhum (district), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: From left to right: Anupma Soren, Pritilata Giope, Sarshati Hansda, Maya Namata and Kajal Namata.
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  • CAPTION: After-School Club (ASC) Coordinator Kalappa demonstrates a paper helicopter to his group, after Chowdamma - who has a learning disability - asked him how helicopters work. Kalappa says that one of the ways he makes the club more inclusive for Chowdamma is that he finds ways to explain principles as visually as possible. LOCATION: Marialla (village), Kasaba (hobli), Chamrajnagar (district), Karnataka (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: From left to right: Kalappa, Chowdamma and Kavya M.
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  • CAPTION: Alice Ajoi is SignHealth Uganda’s ‘focus teacher’ at St Jude’s Primary School. She has received special training in how to work with children who have a hearing impairment, which she uses in her own classroom and also teaches to other staff. Outside of school, she also works among the wider community in Lukaya, providing support to parents and helping to increase awareness. Here, we see her teaching children about sexual abuse, which is sadly far more common among children with hearing impairment because they are often already ostracised and easy to target as ‘silent victims’. LOCATION: St Jude’s Primary School, Lukaya Town, Kalungu District, Central Region, Uganda. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Alice Ajoi.
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  • CAPTION: Alice Ajoi is SignHealth Uganda’s ‘focus teacher’ at St Jude’s Primary School. She has received special training in how to work with children who have a hearing impairment, which she uses in her own classroom and also teaches to other staff. Outside of school, she also works among the wider community in Lukaya, providing support to parents and helping to increase awareness. Here, we see her teaching children about sexual abuse, which is sadly far more common among children with hearing impairment because they are often already ostracised and easy to target as ‘silent victims’. LOCATION: St Jude’s Primary School, Lukaya Town, Kalungu District, Central Region, Uganda. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Alice Ajoi.
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  • INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Adigun Abiola. LOCATION: Lagos State University Teaching Hospital Dot Clinic, Lagos, Nigeria. CAPTION: Adigun Abiola is the head nurse at the hospital pharmacy. Her job entails meticulously checking the pharmaceutical stock to prevent shortages.
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  • INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: N/A (left) and Dr. Ogundimu Opeyemi (right). LOCATION: Lagos State University Teaching Hospital Dot Clinic, Lagos, Nigeria. CAPTION: A staff member explains to a patient how to prevent tuberculosis using an informative flipbook.
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  • INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: N/A. LOCATION: Lagos State University Teaching Hospital Dot Clinic, Lagos, Nigeria. CAPTION: Hi-tech hardware is being utilized at the hospital. It has been proving to be very useful managing the clinics' information systems.
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  • INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Arome Olusegun Philip. LOCATION: Lagos State University Teaching Hospital Dot Clinic, Lagos, Nigeria. CAPTION: The lab assistants of the tuberculosis section of the hospital laboratory meticulously prepare numerous sample containers before the day's medical visits start.
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  • CAPTION: SignHealth Uganda often uses its volunteers to put on short dramas at events in order to heighten awareness and challenge the stigmas attached to hearing impairment. In this scene, one of the volunteers is teaching a family how to communicate using sign language.  LOCATION: Kakunyu Inclusive Nursery and Primary School, Kakunyu Village, near Masaka city, Lweongo District, Central Region, Uganda. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Elizabeth Nakiberu.
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  • INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Adigun Abiola (left) and Dr. Ogundimu Opeyemi (right). LOCATION: Lagos State University Teaching Hospital Dot Clinic, Lagos, Nigeria. CAPTION: A doctor from the tuberculosis unit and the head of the pharmacy pose in front of an information poster, which details the symptoms of tuberculosis.
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  • INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: N/A. LOCATION: Lagos State University Teaching Hospital Dot Clinic, Lagos, Nigeria. CAPTION: A close-up of medication packets in the hospital pharmacy.
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  • INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Adigun Abiola. LOCATION: Lagos State University Teaching Hospital Dot Clinic, Lagos, Nigeria. CAPTION: At the hospital pharmacy, the head nurse manages the pharmaceutical stock, helping to prevent shortages.
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  • INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Arome Olusegun Philip. LOCATION: Lagos State University Teaching Hospital Dot Clinic, Lagos, Nigeria. CAPTION: The lab assistants of the tuberculosis section of the hospital laboratory meticulously prepare numerous sample containers before the day's medical visits start.
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  • INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: N/A. LOCATION: Lagos State University Teaching Hospital Dot Clinic, Lagos, Nigeria. CAPTION: A doctor works at his computer. Next to the machine, a high-end network storage system is visible. The hi-tech hardware helps the clinic with information sharing.
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  • INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Fakhira Anwar. LOCATION: Khurramabad, Landhi, Karachi, Pakistan. CAPTION: Fakhira Anwar shows an embroidery design to the students she's teaching at her small in-house stitching workshop in Karachi, Pakistan. Fakhira has been stitching for the past 15 years. A housewife with three children, she started her home-based stitching business in 2006 when she got her first microfinancing support of Rs. 20,000 (£140) from the First Micro Finance Bank (FMFB). She has since been through several cycles of financing, and each time she has successfully paid back what she borrowed to the bank from her business revenue. Over time, she has been able to scale her business, and thus her income. Her most recent loan was Rs. 200,000 in July 2017. Today, she earns an average of Rs. 40,000 per month from this business. Fakhira’s dream is to purchase an automated stitching and designing embroidery sewing machine; this will cost her Rs. 500,000.
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  • CAPTION: SignHealth Uganda often uses its volunteers to put on short dramas at events in order to heighten awareness and challenge the stigmas attached to hearing impairment. In this scene, one of the volunteers is teaching a family how to communicate using sign language.  LOCATION: Kakunyu Inclusive Nursery and Primary School, Kakunyu Village, near Masaka city, Lweongo District, Central Region, Uganda. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Elizabeth Nakiberu.
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  • CAPTION: SignHealth Uganda often uses its volunteers to put on short dramas at events in order to heighten awareness and challenge the stigmas attached to hearing impairment. In this scene, one of the volunteers is teaching a family how to communicate using sign language.  LOCATION: Kakunyu Inclusive Nursery and Primary School, Kakunyu Village, near Masaka city, Lweongo District, Central Region, Uganda. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Elizabeth Nakiberu.
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  • INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Adigun Abiola. LOCATION: Lagos State University Teaching Hospital Dot Clinic, Lagos, Nigeria. CAPTION: As head pharmacy nurse, Adigun Abiola must carefully check that the hospital's pharmacy is properly stocked.
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  • INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Arome Olusegun Philip. LOCATION: Lagos State University Teaching Hospital Dot Clinic, Lagos, Nigeria. CAPTION: A lab assistant in the hospital's tuberculosis unit meticulously prepares numerous sample containers before the day's medical visits commence.
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  • INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Omope A. Olufemi. LOCATION: Lagos State University Teaching Hospital Dot Clinic, Lagos, Nigeria. CAPTION: Omope Olufemi prepares medicines to give to patients.
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  • CAPTION: Home-Based Educator (HBE) Sakamma has been able to help eight-year-old Sangeetha, who has cerebral palsy, improve her fine motor skills by playing with various teaching and learning materials. Sangeetha has also learned to recognise regular visitors to her home, and to say simple words like amma ('mother'). Over the lifetime of the Chamkol programme, Sakamma says we can expect Sangeetha to start walking, and also to learn to write a little and turn those single words into full sentences. LOCATION: Amchawadi (village), Haradanahalli (hobli), Chamrajnagar (district), Karnataka (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Sakamma (left) and Sangeetha (right).
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  • CAPTION: “It’s essential for us to teach our children how to grow vegetables, how to look after their environment and how they’ll be able to feed themselves in the future”, stresses Mr Khang, Headteacher of the Huy Tuong Primary School. Gaining this experience here, students are then able to share their knowledge of organic farming when they return to their families. The model has already been replicated by Huy Tuong Secondary School, following a visit to the junior school to learn about organic farming techniques from its students and teachers. LOCATION: Huy Tuong Primary School, Huy Tuong, Son La Province, Vietnam. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Lo Van Nen.
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  • CAPTION: A trained ANM visits Bethany Convent School in Ratu, Ranchi, and teaches them on sexual and reproductive health through a game. The cards state the physical changes that occur for both boys and girls, and the boys are asked to segregate them by gender and put them in order. This is followed by a discussion. These sessions happen at the school biannually when the school health team visits. A lot more of this work is being done with girls as compared with boys. The reason is that for boys, suitable forums are not so readily accessible. For girls, there are the Mahila Samakhya schools and anganwadi centers. The latter come under the Government’s Ministry of Women and Child Development. The School Health Program, however, is a component of the Adolescent Health Program, which gives importance to both boys and girls. Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) (National Adolescent Health Program) was launched this year, doing peer interventions with both boys and girls. LOCATION: Bethany Convent School, Ratu (block), Ranchi (city), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Adult: Raj Kumari Sinha; boys in the foreground: Ritesh Munda (left) and Nikhil Tigga (right).
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  • CAPTION: Alice Ajoi is SignHealth Uganda’s ‘focus teacher’ at St Jude’s Primary School. She has received special training in how to work with children who have a hearing impairment, which she uses in her own classroom and also teaches to other staff. Outside of school, she also works among the wider community in Lukaya, providing support to parents and helping to increase awareness. LOCATION: St Jude’s Primary School, Lukaya Town, Kalungu District, Central Region, Uganda. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Alice Ajoi.
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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: Class photo at Mahila Samakhya's residential school in Ratu, Ranchi. 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). LOCATION: Mahila Samakhya, Ratu (block), Ranchi (city), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Adults: Malti Laguri (left) and Rajni Lakra (right); children: multiple people.
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  • CAPTION: A trained ANM visits Bethany Convent School in Ratu, Ranchi, and teaches them on sexual and reproductive health through a game. The cards state the physical changes that occur for both boys and girls, and the boys are asked to segregate them by gender and put them in order. This is followed by a discussion. These sessions happen at the school biannually when the school health team visits. A lot more of this work is being done with girls as compared with boys. The reason is that for boys, suitable forums are not so readily accessible. For girls, there are the Mahila Samakhya schools and anganwadi centers. The latter come under the Government’s Ministry of Women and Child Development. The School Health Program, however, is a component of the Adolescent Health Program, which gives importance to both boys and girls. Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) (National Adolescent Health Program) was launched this year, doing peer interventions with both boys and girls. LOCATION: Bethany Convent School, Ratu (block), Ranchi (city), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: From left to right: Raj Kumari Sinha, Nikhil Tigga, Subhash Gope, Kuldeep Sahu, Ritesh Munda and Raj Kumar Prajpati.
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  • CAPTION: A trained ANM visits Bethany Convent School in Ratu, Ranchi, and teaches them on sexual and reproductive health through a game. The cards state the physical changes that occur for both boys and girls, and the boys are asked to segregate them by gender and put them in order. This is followed by a discussion. These sessions happen at the school biannually when the school health team visits. A lot more of this work is being done with girls as compared with boys. The reason is that for boys, suitable forums are not so readily accessible. For girls, there are the Mahila Samakhya schools and anganwadi centers. The latter come under the Government’s Ministry of Women and Child Development. The School Health Program, however, is a component of the Adolescent Health Program, which gives importance to both boys and girls. Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) (National Adolescent Health Program) was launched this year, doing peer interventions with both boys and girls. LOCATION: Bethany Convent School, Ratu (block), Ranchi (city), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: From left to right: Raj Kumari Sinha, Subhash Gope, Ritesh Munda, Nikhil Tigga, Kuldeep Sahu and Raj Kumar Prajpati.
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  • CAPTION: A trained ANM visits Bethany Convent School in Ratu, Ranchi, and teaches them on sexual and reproductive health through a game. The cards state the physical changes that occur for both boys and girls, and the boys are asked to segregate them by gender and put them in order. This is followed by a discussion. These sessions happen at the school biannually when the school health team visits. A lot more of this work is being done with girls as compared with boys. The reason is that for boys, suitable forums are not so readily accessible. For girls, there are the Mahila Samakhya schools and anganwadi centers. The latter come under the Government’s Ministry of Women and Child Development. The School Health Program, however, is a component of the Adolescent Health Program, which gives importance to both boys and girls. Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) (National Adolescent Health Program) was launched this year, doing peer interventions with both boys and girls. LOCATION: Bethany Convent School, Ratu (block), Ranchi (city), Jharkhand (state), India. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Raj Kumari Sinha.
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  • CAPTION: Teacher Margaret Nabwami uses tactile methods to help Junior, a student with both a hearing impairment and a learning disability, during class. Ms Nabwami is a SignHealth Uganda ‘focus teacher’ at Butenga-Kibanda Primary School. She has received special training in how to work with children who have hearing impairments, which she puts into effect in her own classroom and also teaches to other staff at the school. LOCATION: Butenga-Kibanda Primary School, Butenga Village, near Masaka City, Bukomansimbi District, Central Region, Uganda. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Left: Margaret Nabwami; right: Junior Steven Ssengodze.
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  • CAPTION: Alice Ajoi is SignHealth Uganda’s ‘focus teacher’ at St Jude’s Primary School. She has received special training in how to work with children who have a hearing impairment, which she uses in her own classroom and also teaches to other staff. Outside of school, she also works among the wider community in Lukaya, providing support to parents and helping to increase awareness. LOCATION: St Jude’s Primary School, Lukaya Town, Kalungu District, Central Region, Uganda. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Alice Ajoi.
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  • CAPTION: Teacher Margaret Nabwami helps Junior, a student with both a hearing impairment and a learning disability, during class. Ms Nabwami is a SignHealth Uganda ‘focus teacher’ at Butenga-Kibanda Primary School. She has received special training in how to work with children who have hearing impairments, which she puts into effect in her own classroom and also teaches to other staff at the school. LOCATION: Butenga-Kibanda Primary School, Butenga Village, near Masaka City, Bukomansimbi District, Central Region, Uganda. INDIVIDUAL(S) PHOTOGRAPHED: Left: Margaret Nabwami; right: Junior Steven Ssengodze.
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