Human Interest Stories
Human Interest Story: Agent of Change- How Bharti Championed Adolescent Health in the Juang Community
Geographies
India
Thirty-seven kilometres away from the district headquarters of Keonjhar in Odisha, nestled amidst hills and thickets, lies the village of Jamudiha. This community is home to Bharati Juanga, a 17-year-old with a spark that is hard to miss. With voracious curiosity and an appetite for knowledge, Bharti’s story begins with a dream to re-imagine the cultural challenges that adolescents in her community have, since time immemorial, accepted as the norm. Sometimes, the toughest questions have the simplest solutions and for Bharti, besides her will and determination, all she needed was her voice and the courage to use it. Read more...
