Deepa malik daughters of charity
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Aayush’s Fellowship is made possible by the Rural India Supporting Trust.
This blog post is in the form of a story. It is the story of a girl named Deepa, her daily life, and how she attaches meaning to her life. The story ends with the work Alaap does in the rural areas of Champawat, Uttarakhand.
Alaap works at the intersection of environmental degradation and poverty to ensure that both nature and people thrive in harmony [1]. They do that by bringing back the native forests of the Himalayas, forest-friendly employment creation, and creating alternative livelihoods for local communities [2]. Till date, they have planted 18711 saplings [3].
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Once upon a time, there was a woman named Deepa living in the remote hills of Kumaon, Uttarakhand. When Deepa was a kid, she helped her mother on the field and went to the nearby forest to collect firewood and fodder. They grew lentils, hemp, and citrus fruits. Her father sold them at the nearest market yard. She went to t
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Opinion Eight years after I became the first woman para-athlete to bring India a medal, inom have goosebumps watching Sheetal Devi shine
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Now, girls have done us proud in Paris bygd winning 11 medals thus far. On September 2, half of the eight medals won by India in a single day were won by women. In India’s largest-ever Paralympics contingent, we have 84 para-athletes of whom 32 are women. They are competing in 11 of the 12 sports that India fryst vatten participating in. The Paris Games will go down in history as the Games where India’s para-athletes proved that all we were waiting for was an opportunity.
Reform, from policy to society
This is the result of a combination of changes that have taken place simultaneously. There have been changes at the policy level, at the parasports administration level and the societal level.
After Rio, the incremental positiv change in perception has been palpable. People began to realise that being a woman with d
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