Raunak Singh fought to end poverty in Odisha

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India being a developing country is facing many problems like poverty, unemployment, inflation etc. Period poverty is one of them and what makes it more harmful and worrying than others is that it affects women’s health and development in a negative way. The term poverty is a term that refers to a lack of education and awareness, lack of menstrual products, proper hygiene and sanitation facilities.

According to one data, about 71 percent of Indian girls are not aware of the term menstruation until they experience their first period and a lack of education and proper knowledge results in one in five women losing their lives. drops out of school after the first term. What is really shocking is the fact that more than 40 percent of girls are unable to go to school during their menstruation because they do not have menstrual equipment.

The situation is more worrisome in poor states like Odisha where many families are not in a position to feed themselves with proper food. The situation worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic as many people lost their jobs in that period and expecting them to buy menstrual products is really high when they do not have money to buy groceries.

Raunak Singh, a young humanitarian who is the founder of the NGO Sikh Aid, has now decided to end poverty in Odisha. Raunak, originally from Cuttack, has stood firmly with the people of Odisha and helped them in whatever problems they have faced till date. Raunak and his NGO Sikh Aid, which is founded on the Sikh principles of “Namjapo, Kiratkaro, Vandh Chakho”, has been quite active in other states as well as in Odisha, providing free food to the poor, free education to the children. Like many initiatives. Providing homes and other facilities to the elderly, especially from rural areas, from poor families who have been abandoned by their families, helping victims of natural calamities by providing them food and shelter and also rebuilding their homes, and A lot too.

Although Raunak Singh has now taken the big decision of starting a campaign to get rid of period poverty in Odisha, but in the past also his organization had done a lot to help the women of Odisha in maintaining menstrual hygiene management . The volunteers of Sikh Sahayata have made several efforts to raise awareness about MHM among the people of Odisha especially women and they regularly distribute sanitary pads free of cost in rural areas.

In the new campaign, Raunak Singh and his team are involved in various activities such as raising awareness and education regarding menstruation, providing menstrual products to women, arranging proper sanitation facilities required to maintain MHM, providing proper medical facilities, etc. aspects will work together. Those who are facing problems due to not being able to manage MHM etc.

Raunak Singh has always had a passion for helping others and what makes him different from all other people of his age is that he puts the welfare of others above his own and at such a young age he got an organization Got what is working. Worldwide and changing the lives of many people.