by blog-coro | Jul 7, 2018 | blog
The Single Women Organization (एकल महिला संघटना) in Marathwada has made countless changes in the lives of women, both big and small. The following are a few of those stories, as told by the women themselves. Urmila Galphade Varpagaon My education stopped after the 9th...
by blog-coro | May 22, 2018 | blog
Maharashtra is looking down the barrel of a water conflict. In large swathes of the state, heavy but intermittent showers have caused crops to wither due to a lack of sufficient, sustained rainfall. Women have to wake up before sunrise to walk for kilometers to get to...
by blog-coro | May 17, 2018 | blog
Students from the Indian School of Development Management interning with CORO’s partners at Edelgive visited our women empowerment team’s community sites in the low-income areas of Chembur-Trombay. This article has been adapted from Nishita Pandey’s blog post about...
by blog-coro | May 9, 2018 | blog
Tina hails from Mayapur village in Ajmer district, Rajasthan. Like many young girls in that region, she fell prey to the illegal practice of child marriage when she was 12. Tina’s in-laws always harassed her because she had studied until class 8 while her husband...
by blog-coro | Mar 23, 2018 | blog
In a new state policy, every child in Maharashtra with a hearing and speech impairment will receive 1,00,000 rupees towards their treatment – including early-age tests, hearing aids, and speech therapy. This new provision, which will open the door for the 2-4%...
