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Meet the pad women of Assam, who have been nudging villagers towards menstrual hygiene
In Pamohi, women and girls have started talking more freely about their periods and have switched to using reusable sanitary pads.
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How residents of Assam’s vulnerable sandbar villages saved themselves from this year’s floods
A simple innovation of building houses on a raised and reinforced earthen platform has spared many village homes on the river islets on the Brahmaputra.
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How Facebook and WhatsApp groups are curbing child marriage in Assam
Since February, the young activists behind the social media groups have stopped over 250 underage marriages.
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How the internet is empowering Assam’s rural women
Armed with their smartphones and riding bicycles, they have been educating women in four districts of the state.
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Way before Swacch Bharat, a remote Assam village had set cleanliness goals for itself
Shikdamakha, near Guwahati, runs cleanliness drives and competitions, wants to surpass Mawlynnong in Meghalaya as Asia's cleanest village.
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