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It's hard to learn on an empty stomach. This sounds obvious until you consider how many education programs completely ig...
07/10/2026

It's hard to learn on an empty stomach. This sounds obvious until you consider how many education programs completely ignore it.

Project AnnaSeva helps children access nutritious mid-day meals — not as a side benefit, but because hunger and concentration are directly linked, and a child who hasn't eaten properly isn't failing to pay attention, they're physiologically unable to. For many families, a reliable meal at school is also what makes sending a child, especially a daughter, feel worth the cost.

Feeding a child and educating a child were never two separate problems. We treat them as one.

A teacher can only teach the child sitting in front of them. What determines whether that child is sitting there at all ...
05/10/2026

A teacher can only teach the child sitting in front of them. What determines whether that child is sitting there at all is usually decided somewhere else entirely — at home, around a dinner table, in a decision about whose education is "worth" the cost.

This is why our work doesn't stop at the classroom door. Project Siksha runs alongside schools, not instead of them, tackling the dropout and literacy gaps that stop children, especially girls in migrant and tribal communities, from ever getting the full benefit of a teacher's work in the first place.

On World Teachers' Day, we're grateful for every teacher showing up for a child. We also know our job is making sure that child is still in the room.

01/10/2026

At the heart of every Dignity Kit are practical hygiene essentials, but support is rarely one- size-fits-all.

We work with our charity partners to understand what will be most useful for the women they support. Sometimes this means providing complete Dignity Kits; at other times, partners may need sanitary pads in larger quantities to help meet immediate demand.

We also make small seasonal changes to our kits. During the warmer months, we include an odour-control roll-on, while lip balm is added for winter to offer a little extra care in colder weather.
These may be simple adjustments, but they help us keep the programme practical, thoughtful and responsive to different needs.

As we prepare our winter kits. we'd love to hear your ideas: what would vou add to our Winter Dignity Kit?
Share your suggestion in the comments

Find out more about the programme or support our work
https://naarisamata.org/dignity-kits-uk/ https://naarisamata.org/donate/


There's a job in a lot of families that nobody applies for and nobody's asked if they want, eldest daughter. It comes wi...
30/09/2026

There's a job in a lot of families that nobody applies for and nobody's asked if they want, eldest daughter. It comes with responsibilities no younger sibling inherits in quite the same way, the second parent to younger brothers and sisters, the one who steps in when things are hard, the one whose own plans quietly become negotiable the moment the family needs something.

Nobody frames it as a loss at the time. It looks like maturity, like being dependable, like the natural order of things. She's just "good with the little ones." She's just "always been responsible." But somewhere in all that praise, a childhood gets traded for a role, and by the time she's old enough to notice, she's already spent years putting everyone else's needs a step ahead of her own, so automatically it doesn't even register as a sacrifice anymore.

The cost shows up later, quietly. In how hard it is for her to ask for help herself, having spent so long being the one who provides it. In how unfamiliar it feels to want something purely for herself, without weighing it against what everyone else needs first.

We think a lot about the girls and women we work with directly. We think just as much about the ones carrying an entire family's expectations before they've had the chance to carry their own.

Ask who's expected to think about contraception, and the answer, almost everywhere, is women. Not the couple. Not the ho...
26/09/2026

Ask who's expected to think about contraception, and the answer, almost everywhere, is women. Not the couple. Not the household. Her.

She's the one expected to track it, remember it, manage the side effects, and absorb the consequences if something goes wrong, even in situations where she wasn't the one who got a real say in whether or when to have children in the first place. Somewhere along the way, family planning quietly became her responsibility, as if the family in question only has one person actually deciding what happens to their own body.

This isn't really about contraception at all. It's about who gets to make decisions concerning their own future, and who's simply expected to manage the outcomes of someone else's. A woman who has no real say in this decision hasn't been protected from a hard choice — she's had the choice made without her, and then handed the responsibility for living with it.

Access to contraception matters. So does something less talked about, whether a woman actually got to choose, or whether she was just the one left holding the decision nobody let her make.

A young man says he wants to build a career.We call him ambitious.A young woman says the same.We may ask:But what about ...
21/09/2026

A young man says he wants to build a career.

We call him ambitious.

A young woman says the same.

We may ask:

But what about marriage?
Will you have time for a family?
How far do you really want to go?
Isn't that too demanding?

The ambition hasn't changed.

The questions have.

Women are still often expected to explain their ambitions in ways men aren't.

Why this career?
Why this city?
Why work so hard?
Why not settle down?
Why prioritise work?
Why not choose something more "balanced"?

And somewhere along the way, ambition becomes something a woman is expected to justify rather than simply own.

The problem isn't that families care about women's wellbeing.

The problem is when concern becomes a way of deciding how much a woman should want.

We should be able to ask young people what they want to build—not how much of their ambition they are willing to give up.

Because a woman's ambition shouldn't need to be made acceptable before it can be respected.

Maybe the better question isn't "How will she manage it all?"

Maybe it's "Why do we assume she should have to?”

What is one question about ambition that women are asked far more often than men?

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19/09/2026

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We're raffling off 3 golf vouchers, each redeemable at over 200 courses across the UK. Entry starts at just £5, and every penny raised goes straight toward our team's London Marathon fundraising — powering the work we do every day for women and girls in underserved communities.

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On International Equal Pay Day, Naari Samata wants to increase conversations around equal pay — because meaningful chang...
18/09/2026

On International Equal Pay Day, Naari Samata wants to increase conversations around equal pay — because meaningful change begins when we are willing to talk about the inequalities we see, experience and sometimes overlook.

Share this post with your feed and help us keep the conversation around equal pay going.

What does women's empowerment actually look like?Sometimes it looks like getting a job.Sometimes it looks like starting ...
16/09/2026

What does women's empowerment actually look like?

Sometimes it looks like getting a job.

Sometimes it looks like starting a business.

And sometimes, it looks like building the systems that allow thousands of other women to do the same.

Chetna Gala Sinha's work with rural women offers an important lesson:

Women don't only need motivation. They need access.

Access to finance.

Access to skills.

Access to markets.

Access to institutions.

Because when women have the tools to turn their abilities into income, empowerment becomes something much more tangible.

What is one system you think needs to change to create more opportunities for women in your community?

September 8th marked International Literacy Day — Literacy used to mean knowing how to read and write.Today, that's only...
11/09/2026

September 8th marked International Literacy Day — Literacy used to mean knowing how to read and write.

Today, that's only the starting point.

From digital payments and online applications to misinformation and financial decisions, young people are navigating a world that requires them to understand far more than words on a page.

For women and girls, these skills can directly affect access to opportunity and independence.

What should "being literate" mean in 2026?

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