Giving girls their due The inherent gender bias in many developing societies has denied learning opportunities to girls specially in the rural areas. Night schools being run by an NGO in Rajasthan, India, show how this bias can be overcome, successfully. The children of Haryana in north India where this organisation works will soon get a technical training institute. The authorities turn a blind eye to them. Farmers bless them.
People come from the cities to earn their stripes, er, tusks, in rural Punjab in north India.
8 August 2001 Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action Yuva takes up issues of the marginalised in both rural and urban areas. There are 184 oneworld.net partners working in matters related with this location.