Bajoplin Kharmudai, a resident of Madanryting locality in East Khasi Hills District is a NEN Outreach Worker and an Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) under the National Health Mission. On 29 March 2020, Bajop got a distress phone call from a woman (a previous Domestic Violence client), requesting her help to go back home, where…
Rekha (name changed) is a domestic worker from Sidli in Chirang District of Assam. She lives and works in Guwahati. With the fourth phase of lockdown due to the COVID 19 Pandemic having eased certain restrictions, she returned to the city on the 18th of May. She had hoped to resume working in the households…
Women Lead Series In 2013, Usharani Devi was involved in disaster management and women’s empowerment programmes through an organization in Sipajhar village of Darrang district in Assam. A mother of two and wife to a man who did not take her work seriously, she had always wanted to do something that would further the rights…
One evening, during the pandemic when the entire country was under lockdown, our community mobiliser Moon from Golaghat district received a distress call from an elderly woman. She informed Moon that a few days ago, her married daughter Gita (name changed) had returned home with her five-month-old daughter after being violently beaten up by her…
Shelter Homes in Assam are not accepting new residents in the absence of relevant guidelines for the COVID 19 Pandemic The safety of our homes has become rhetoric in the political narrative of the COVID 19 Pandemic. For those without it, the government claims to provide for shelter homes. There are over 70 shelter homes…
Watch this space to know how tribal communities in north east India are being affected by the COVID 19 Pandemic and resultant lockdown.
Tsurila is a Field Coordinator with us at North East Network, based in Shamator, in Tuensang District of Nagaland. She is also a home-based weaver and leads YBAST, the local women’s organisation in her town. In remote areas such as Shamator, our Field Coordinators hold the baton of mobilizing women workers in the unorganised sector-…
North East Network has been working on the issue of domestic violence in Assam for the past 25 years. During this period we have been closely associated with the Social Welfare Department in addressing the issue jointly through collaborative programmes and interventions. In view of the COVID19 pandemic related closures and lockdown, increasing numbers of…
Supports marginalized communities and women by providing ration kits As we sit in our homes and put up social media stories of #stayhome, there are millions in the country were struggling to have one square meal a day even before the world was hit by the deadly virus. 21 days into a nationwide lockdown, India’s…
Women are leading the fight against COVID 19 in many places and NEN has been a witness to many such stories of courage, compassion and intent. One such story is that of Sriganga, a daily wage earner from Lal Ganesh Area of Guwahati in Assam. She had been associated with us for a few years…