Digital Tool Teaches Indian Boys About Gender Equality

In Rajasthan, a social project employs audio stories accessed by mobile phones to talk about child marriage and puberty.

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Rajasthan, India – Nineteen-year-old Sahil*, who lives in Kolaheda village in the northern state of Rajasthan, felt embarrassed and confused about the way his body changed during his adolescence.

It was not the kind of subject anyone in his village ever discussed and neither his parents nor his relatives volunteered any information.

Then he heard a story on his mobile phone, accessed through a toll-free number.

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