In In Focus

Open defecation and its effect on adolescent girls

By 23rd November, 2016

There are questions which refuse to go out of my mind. I think about them and then I forget.  However what keeps taking me back to the questions, i...

In Impact Stories

Young Girls Take Charge

By Richa Singh 18th November, 2016

Dumar is a village in Hazaribagh district in Jharkhand. Priyanka Kumar, school going student passed her matriculation and was planning for her futu...

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Stories of Change

By Richa Singh 7th November, 2016

Ajay (name changed), is a student in 9th standard in Jhajjar district in Haryana. During one of the ‘Taaron ki Toli’ sessions when gender discrimin...

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Taaron Ki Toli – The Seed of Change

By Saumya Agarwal 4th November, 2016

Working with children is always amazing. Not only because they are impressionable, but because they are so receptive. They welcome new ideas with o...

In In Focus

Taaron Ki Toli

By 3rd November, 2016

Taaron ki toli as the name suggests is a group of stars. Breakthrough is working in schools in Haryana to create many such taaron ki toli’s. These ...

In In Focus

Being girls, are we ever allowed to take charge of our lives?

By Shweta Singh 28th October, 2016

I was born & brought up in Delhi by my parents who hail from small towns in UP. It has been quite a journey since the time I was a teenager and...

In In Focus

Five Ways Your Donations Will Help Breakthrough Empower Adolescent Girls

By 26th October, 2016

It’s that time of the year when we are all in the giving mode! Festive season becomes so much more meaningful when we contribute to causes th...

In In Focus

Why Do We Need To Focus On Adolescent Empowerment?

By Rajshri Sen 25th October, 2016

As I reflect on my life, as a woman and a mother, I feel fortunate— fortunate to have had a supportive environment while growing up, the freedom to...

In In Focus

Enabling Meena To Live Her Dreams

By Richa Singh 24th October, 2016

Do you know of Meena’s story? She is a young girl, growing up in one of the towns in Uttar Pradesh. She turned thirteen last year. She is an adoles...

In In Focus

Adolescence: A Flashback

By Shreya Iyengar 20th October, 2016

Most people cringe when they think of their teenage years. It is a particularly harrowing phase for many, in one way or the other. There are so man...