Spreading awareness on menstrual hygiene
May 29, 2018Stree NewsEnvironment, Health, Menstruation, Physical Excercises, Sanitary Napkins, Women, Youth
Sarika Gupta and Ragini Gupta By: Meena R. Prashant As per the statistics from UKAID, 14% of girls in India suffer from menstrual infection (water aid) and 10% of girls hold the belief that...
Promoting sports and its career opportunities
May 27, 2018Stree NewsKids, Sports, Women, Youth
By: Varda Sharma Tanaz Mohammed (25) was introduced to sports at the age of 7 by her parents. She started with athletics and by the time she was 8, she was in the school’s hockey team and...
Painting canvas with ‘Timeless Memories’
May 26, 2018Stree NewsArt, Art Therapy, Painting, Women
Anitha Sunil Kumar By: Varda Sharma Anitha Sunil Kumar (44) had a natural inclination towards creative pursuits since a very young age. Thanks to her mother, Shashikala Srinivasa Rao, who had a...
A cosy stay in the lap of nature
May 25, 2018Stree NewsEnvironment, Photography, StartUps, Women
By: Varda Sharma Imagine a home stay in the Himalayan region away from all tourist trails, in a village surrounded by pristine forests and farms, facing grand snow views and a wide valley. Well...
Enabling youth and mothers join hands and walk together
May 23, 2018Stree NewsCounselling, Education, employment, Environment, Health, Senior Citizen, Women, Youth
Meena Bhatia (Left) and Manisha Jhamb By: Meena R. Prashant Meena Bhatia and Manisha Jhamb, entrepreneurs in their mid- 40s, met six years back at their son’s Parents-Teachers Meet in...
Sensitising people on social issues through street plays
May 22, 2018Stree NewsDepression, Education, Happiness, Kids, Uncategorized
By: Varda Sharma Tejaswini Patwardhan, a film director by qualification and script writer and teacher by profession was perturbed by the number of social issues that plagued her vicinity –...
A whiff of fresh air for healthy living
May 19, 2018Stree NewsFitness, Health, Kids, Physical Excercises, Sports, Women
By: Varda Sharma While running the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in 2011, Kripa Sagar then aged 45, learnt that the reason why she, and all smokers, got addicted to cigarettes was the “feel good”...
Ummeed-Kindling hope
May 18, 2018Stree NewsAutism, Counselling, Health, Kids
Dr. Vibha Krishnamurthy By: Varda Sharma 50 million children in India live with or are at risk of developmental disabilities while one in six families has a child with developmental...
Bringing positive differences in lives
May 17, 2018Stree NewsAnxiety, Counselling, Education, Kids, StartUps
By: Meena R Prashant In the initial days of her career itself, Dr. Mehak Sharma (Bachelor in Occupational therapy and internship from Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, Delhi) understood what actually...
