Unpaid Care Work: The Invisible Tax on Girls and Women
Fetching water, cooking, cleaning and caring for siblings is work. When it falls on girls, it quietly sets the limit on school, paid work and rest.
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Trafficking and Exploitation: How Poverty Makes Girls Targetable
Traffickers do not recruit at random. They look for girls with no money, no papers, no protector and no alternative. Poverty is the recruitment ground.
Hunger and Anaemia: How Malnutrition Limits a Girl's Life
A hungry girl cannot concentrate, and an anaemic girl cannot carry a pregnancy safely. Malnutrition is one of the quietest consequences of poverty, and one of the most reversible.
Violence at Home: The Consequence Poverty Makes Normal
Poverty does not cause violence, but it removes the exits. Economic dependence, weak services and unequal norms keep women in abusive homes and put girls at risk early.
Child Labour: When a Girl Works Instead of Learns
Most child labour is not in factories. It is in fields, homes and markets, where girls' work is often invisible, unpaid and treated as a family duty.
Adolescent Pregnancy: The Health Risk That Ends Schooling
For girls aged 15 to 19, complications in pregnancy and childbirth are a leading cause of death. Pregnancy is not only a health event; it is a poverty trap that closes the classroom.
Seuti Teron: A Girl’s Journey in Garbhanga
Seuti Teron comes from the Garbhanga Forest Reserve in Assam — a community where, for generations, girls remained uneducated, unheard and unaware of their own rights. Her dream is the reason Sneha Karma Foundation exists.
Garbhanga Support-A-Girl
How a chance meeting in the Garbhanga forest villages of Assam led to our flagship Support-A-Girl program — the families we met, the barriers girls face there, and where the work goes next.
Child Marriage: When Poverty Decides a Girl's Future
Child marriage is often described as a tradition. It is also an economic decision made under pressure, and it ends a girl's education, health and voice at once.
Education Is the Best Way to End Child Marriage in India
Child marriage is rarely a law problem — it is a belief problem. And nothing shifts that belief more reliably than an educated girl.
