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#InternationalDayOfGirlChild | Here is a thread of select articles on achievements of the girl child, the challenges they face and the impact of #COVID19 on young girls.
#InternationalDayOfGirlChild | Let's celebrate this day, with these inspiring and heart-warming books for girls. Here are three books that celebrate girl power — both real and fictional. #Replug
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#InternationalDayOfGirlChild | Ahaana Bharat Ram of The Shri Ram School is on a campaign distributing free sanitary napkins among women who have no wherewithal to buy pads. | @soma1807 writes
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#InternationalDayOfGirlChild | The 12-year-old skateboarder, Kamali, from the seaside town of Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu, clinches silver at the 59th National Roller Skating Championship at the Nationals. | @AkilaKannadasan reports
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#InternationalDayOfGirlChild | Visakhapatnam-born Debopriya Saha becomes the youngest certified junior scuba diver. She achieved this by diving to a depth of 35 feet in the Bay of Bengal off Rushikonda coast on her 10th birthday. | @nivi15 writes
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#InternationalDayOfGirlChild | The daughter of a daily wage earner, Ms. Narmadha went around collecting money to help quite a few children stay on in school. This 17-year-old has also helped in stopping child marriages. | Vivek Narayanan writes
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#InternationalDayOfGirlChild | 19-year-old Koyel Sarkar is the head of an all-girls group in Siliguri that works for ending child marriages in her community, and they have stopped eight child marriages in just two years. | @jagritichandra writes
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#InternationalDayOfGirlChild | Will increasing the age of marriage of women solve the issue of child marriage? Data from NFHS-5, 2019-2021, enables us to examine the facts. | Sunny Jose & Mohd Imran Khan write in this Comment piece.
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#InternationalDayOfGirlChild | Promoting dietary diversity is crucial during adolescence, especially among girls, who face more physiological demands, write Ameet Babre & Smitha Chekanath Parambath in this Comment article.
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#InternationalDayOfGirlChild | Here's a look at the impact of the pandemic on the lives of adolescent girls and what needs to be done to help them. | Aparajita Gogoi writes
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