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Jane Kakyo - The empowerment of team work: women’s groups as vehicle for financial independence
'The income of our home-made soaps now enables us to pay schooluniforms and fees for our children, and menstruation products for our daughters.'
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Kopernik
“We appreciate the network established and maintained through our partnership with Simavi, and they have strengthened Kopernik’s capacity on thematic issues around women’...
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Lily Behera - More than a bride: an independent young woman
‘Once seen as a burden, I am now a financial support for my family’
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Marcel Tielemans & Anky Schmale
"We think that clean drinking water and toilets are essential for everyone. That’s why we included Simavi in our will.”
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May Kyana Marma
This is May Kyanu Marma. Currently, she is in the third year of her study in Bengali literature and in her free time she enjoys weaving. May belongs to the ‘Marma Communi...
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Ms Shefalika Tripura
Ms Shefalika Tripura is the executive director of the Khagrapur Mahila Kalyan Samity – Association for wellbeing of women in Khagrapur (KMKS) organisation in the Chittago...
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Nancy Barasa: ‘many girls feel unsafe when collecting water’
‘Many girls from Kibera, a Kenyan slum, feel unsafe when collecting water’, shares Nancy Barasa (21 years).
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Nisha Kumari: taking the lead in abolition of child marriages
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Quazi Robiul Alam
In Bangladesh, menstruation is still a secret matter shrouded by misconceptions and taboos.
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Jane Nyamwamu about the impact of the Water Justice Fund: 'Women can do magic'
