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Spearheading Hand Wash & Menstrual Hygiene Practices in India

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HEEALS, a non-profit organization has collaborated with various schools to spread awareness about the importance of hand wash and menstrual hygiene among children of variable ages. It's often seen that a simple practice like washing hands is not given enough importance by children as well as adults. But, it is a medically proven fact that proper hand washing is one of the best ways to avoid getting sick. Similarly, menstrual hygiene is also an ignored practice among adolescent girls because of more...

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"Learn Hand washing & Hygiene Practice Through Games & Multimedia"

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Water Sanitation Menstrual Hygiene&Girl Education Awareness Project Learn Hand washing & Hygiene Practice Through Games & Multimedia. Promoting awareness among children about Handwash & Menstrual Hygiene through games and multimedia. Games and Multimedia played a very important role in creating awareness among school children about Hand wash and Menstrual Hygiene. For complete Article Reading please visit Us at :- http://volunteerheeals.blogspot.in/2013/04/learn-hand- more...

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Jairam Ramesh says Toilets more Important in India than Temples

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Toilets are more important in India than temples, Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh said here on Friday, as he inaugurated a yatra that will travel through states raising awareness about sanitation."Sixty-four per cent of Indians defecate in open spaces, which is a global record. It is now reckoned as the main cause of India's malnutrition problem. In the past five years, we have spent more than Rs 45,000 crore on rural sanitation and will spend Rs 1.08 lakh crore in the next more...

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Why children are attending less School ? .

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Behaviour of children towards Unhygienic practice, have a significant impact on child’s academic performance. majority of children are not properly taught healthy sanitation& personal hygiene habits , like washing hands with soap regularly ,wash hand before and after eating ,bathing daily. Read Full Article on :- http://heeals.blogspot.in/2012/07/why-children-are-attending-less-school.html

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Behaviour Change Towards Sanitation and Girl Child Education Through Art & Drama at Gurgaon,Haryana

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India is the open defecation capital of the world, where people have more mobile phones then toilets, having easy access to banks as compared to toilets . Open defecation is a big concern and a big issue to be addressed which still is not that touched upon subject among the community. As people here do not wants to talk about this issue. People in many part of the villages here make there homes without the toilets as they don’t see any use of it even if they have money to build more...

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The Role of Sanitation in Girl Child Education - A Documentary Film by HEEALS

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The Role of Sanitation in Girl Child Education - A Documentary Film by HEEALS A Documentary Film trying to create Awareness Among the Masses about Girl Child Education , Menstrual Hygiene, Sanitation and Safe Drinking Water and trying to relate how Girl Child education is directly suffering due to bad sanitation facilities , unsafe drinking water and lack of knowledge to obtain the same. Watch It Now On : YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-_2hGn_ebY If Not Able To Watch more...

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Charles Kenny: Three major development challenges for the upcoming decade

In this series, Zunia asks experts from various fields to identify three major development challenges facing us in the upcoming decade and steps we can take to address them. We talked to Charles Kenny, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development. His current work covers topics including the demand side of development, the role of technology in quality of life improvements, and governance and anticorruption in aid. Consolidating our gains against disease. The last ten years have seen more...

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Kathleen Mogelgaard: Population and environment

Kathleen Mogelgaard, Senior Advisor for Population, Gender & Climate at Population Action International, discusses how the relationship between the environment and world population is becoming increasingly tense as we put more pressure on the environment. Population Action International advocates for women and families to have access to contraception in order to improve their health, reduce poverty and protect their environment. Zunia: Population has nearly doubled over the last fifty more...

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Expert Perspective: Yukie Hori, UNCCD Coordinator discusses the impacts of desertification and drought

The United Nations' World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is annually observed on June 17 with the aim of designating a day of observance to sensitize the public and policy makers to the increasing dangers of desertification, land degradation and drought. This year Zunia interviews Yukie Hori, Coordinator for Awareness Raising, Communication and Education in the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). In this interview Yukie more...

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Farina Ahmed to Expert Perspectives on June 16, 2011

Expert Perspective: Nick Nuttall, UNEP Spokesperson Discusses Environmental Development

To celebrate World Environment Day, Zunia interviews Nick Nuttall, Spokesperson for the UNEP, who discusses environmental development and how it can be implemented in the current global community. He highlights specific countries that are successfully developing a green economy, and offers suggestions for the future. Zunia: The UNEP theme is “Environment for Development”. Is environmentally sustainable development a feasible option for lesser developed countries? What solutions do more...

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