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Homeless Assistance in Seattle: A Step Further Towards Volunteerism

By Carrie Williams: Vine Maple Place is a homeless shelter for single parents in the Seattle area. The organization takes care of donation distribution, children’s character building activities and provides transitional housing at affordable prices. The home provides jobs to volunteers, one of whom quotes

Society

Live-In Relationship In A Marriage-Centric India

By Madhur Gupta: Widow Remarriage is a taboo in our culture, so are divorces and same is the case with live-in relationship. It has always been in Indian culture to act in an orthodox manner and to be rigid and unaccepting when it comes to

Events

Draw A Doodle, Win Lecoanet Hemant Bag, Breakthrough Goodies @BellBajao

YouthKiAwaaz.com is back with its series of Facebook contests, this time in collaboration with the path-breaking campaign that we all remember and love, Bell Bajao. We call upon your creative brain cells to jump around and engage in doodle-making to address the issue of gender abuse

Society

She Laments: Time To Raise Our Voice Against Domestic Violence

By Niharika Pandit: Every morning she gets up at five, makes tea for her husband. She then rushes to the restroom in order to get ready and cook for her husband. Roma is 30 now. After twelve years of relentless work, she is quite used

Society

Domestic Violence, Custody Laws And A Disturbed Childhood

By Mitu Khurana: Domestic violence to the mother during pregnancy has been reported worldwide. The incidence of intimate partner violence during pregnancy has been rated at 2.5 to 3.4% in UK, 2 to 33.75 in USA and 12.5% in Ireland. Delay in providing medical

Society

Awaiting An Answer: Domestic Violence And Our Ignorance

By Sagarika Mitra: She had bruises over her arms and had a cut on her lip. When asked about what caused it, she wore a faint smile on her face and said, "oh, this. I fell off the stairs while dusting." She thought she had

Society

Are You Being Subject To Domestic Violence?- A Quick Analysis

By Divya Gupta: “Being abused in this manner is like being kidnapped and tortured for ransom but you will never have enough to pay off the kidnapper.” By Rebecca J. Burns …The Last Straw This quote written on long term domestic violence shows the gravity

Society

Dowry in India: Putting The Institution of Marriage at Stake

By Sampa Kundu: Dowry is a social evil which is ‘hated’ by most of the ‘educated’ Indians but ‘practiced’ very proudly in their own lives. It shows the crude difference between theory and reality, delivering a speech and living that out, ethics and practicality. Dowry

Society

Violence Against Women – How much have we changed “culturally”? [Part 2]

Continued By Avani Bansal: Read part 1 here. Natural Vocation theory - When the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 1994, one of its first edicts removed girls from school, forbade women from employment outside the home, and required women to wear garments totally covering themselves