Author: Shadesofhappiness

In a conversation with Karan Babbar, a PhD scholar at IIM Ahmedabad, Shades of Happiness Foundation (SOHF) caught up with the essentials of understanding the famously considered taboo topics like menstruation, menstrual hygiene management, and the need for a conversation about menstruation among school children, especially the boys. It proceeded as follows: Question: How would… Continue reading Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) and More: An Interview with Karan Babbar

India was amongst the first countries in the world to initiate action plans and programmes at a national level to attain total reproductive health as a social goal. These programmes called ‘family planning’ were initiated in 1951 and were periodically assessed over the past decades. Improved programmes covering wider reproduction-related areas are currently in operation… Continue reading   Requisites of Reproductive Health: A Short Guide

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes. Reproductive health implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe… Continue reading Reproductive Health: The Basics

“Humanity has to do its best for the child.” Declaration of Geneva. Children are tender and fragile yet powerful to be around. Adults often tend to underestimate their abilities and neglect the need to educate children about their rights. Therefore, here we’ll be talking in detail about the basic rights that every child should be… Continue reading Children Rights: A brief Introduction

SOHF is continuously striving to empower people in the fringes of society and to the effect, we are trying to inculcate in them knowledge, skills and the know-how of proper infrastructure in order to achieve the same. We believe that by contributing in small ways, like ripples, we could lead to bigger, more impactful changes… Continue reading Shades of Happiness: A Local Effort at Global Change

Happiness knows no bounds yet when Shades of Happiness was founded our vision was limited to imparting quality education to the children belonging to all the lower socio-economic or less fortunate sections of the society. We wanted to focus on the overall progress of a child through methods of learning that would be joyful and… Continue reading Shades of Happiness: A Little for a Lot