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A man in PPE stands among children in a slum in Mumbai India.

Together, we shall overcome

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Day after day our screens are filled with harrowing images of hospitals overrun, lines of people waiting desperately for a hospital bed or oxygen for a loved one. As the number of cases keeps climbing, the threat inches ever closer to home, family members, colleagues, friends, and neighbours. I feel so helpless right now. Helpless at my… Read more →←
A covid-19 patient hooked up to an oxygen tank

12 months on, the eerily familiar sounds of the pandemic

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March 2020. India had recently completed a massive vaccination campaign of more than 300 million children against measles and rubella – two potentially life-threatening diseases. I was posted to New York for a health communications assignment which involved sharing my experiences from the public health communication drive that had… Read more →←
Boys sit on a bench in white shirts; one looks directly at the camera.

Men must talk, even if it makes us uncomfortable

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Sharing the picture below on the internet makes me uncomfortable. Very uncomfortable. Not because I am uncomfortable with the topic. As a communication officer at UNICEF India, I have been creating content around the issue for years now. But somehow, I am uncomfortable talking about it to men and women on a public platform. And to men… Read more →←
A girl child wearing an organe life jacket sits in the centre of a boat and surrounded by adults.

Kerala: Returning to loss after the floods

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After an arduous nine-hour journey, I finally reach Kozhikode (Calicut) after an arduous journey of nine hours. The journey has been heart-wrenching. About 2000 children are cramped into relief camps along with their parents and caregivers who have lost their valuables to incessant rain and floods. Tomorrow — day two — should be even… Read more →←
Lady in saree holding a microphone addresses a seated audience in India

Protection for child abuse victims in India

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Every day is different. My work with ENFOLD, an NGO that supports victims of child sexual abuse in India, ensures that I don’t have a typical day: there are no weekdays or weekends as cases get reported every day. Either our office receives the information or I get calls directly from different sources including the police, Child… Read more →←
A cartoon shows a man in a white coat holding a child as a woman, man and child look on.

WhatsApp-ening in India’s measles-rubella vaccine campaign? ☺️☺️☺️

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It’s a Saturday night  and my phone memory is full again. Another 53 messages have come through from Uttarkhand, and then 37 more from Telangana. Scrolling through them is a rainbow of colour and activity with the bright clothes of women health workers blurring as my finger scrolls with the red and white dots of the campaign… Read more →←

A clean start to life

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Imagine watching your doctor wash their hands with dirty water. Imagine giving birth to a child in a hospital with no running water. Or having no toilet to use when you are in labor. Imagine delivery a baby, without having soap or water to wash your hands. This is a reality for millions of people around the world, where health care is… Read more →←
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Behold, behold and “Be bold for change”

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Today is World Poetry Day – in the Field Office in Madhya Pradesh, India, our Chief in the office is Michael Juma. As well as working for UNICEF, he is also a poet and he wrote these lines for International #WomensDay Please read and join us in celebration of World Poetry Day.   Great people of the world, Men and Women, time… Read more →←

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