Sonia is an 18 year old adolescent girl residing at Metro Vihar , Holambi Kalan ; She is a peer educator with CSI’s community project on integration of Sexual and reproductive health and HIV .
Sonia creates awareness on sexual & reproductive health and HIV prevention and care amongst her peer group in her colony…
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Stories of Hope
A young Champion
Sonia can be seen here conducting a session on personal hygiene with girls from her colony…
Sushma ji , the project coordinator for the CSI run project operating in Metro Vihar, has been a great influence on Sonia and she looks upto her and wishes to have same confidence and spirit to disseminate messages in the larger community … Sushma ji and Sonia can be seen here sharing a light moment with other girls…
Sonia organizes sessions with her peers on issues ranging from how to maintain hygiene during menstrual periods to awareness about HIV transmission…these meetings have no fixed place or time…wherever the girls can assemble, the meeting are held there…Sonia can be seen here conducting a meeting outside a friend’s house…
Home coming: Sonai returning after a SUCCESSFUL session…
Sonia has done a diploma is sewing and stitching …an expert in this job, she supplements her family’s income by sewing suites, blouse pieces etc. for ladies in her neighborhood…
Formally educated till 5th standard, Sonia has been continuing her education by taking tuitions from a girl in her colony…
Sonia in jovial mood…seen here playing with her mice…
Sonia spends a substantial part of her day helping her parents out with their daily job of separating usable cloth pieces from rags…
Sonia is a sincere and an honest girl with her own set of dreams and aspirations…she wants to be self reliant and have a small little pucca house with all civic amenities in a clean and easily accessible locality of Delhi.
(CSI has mobilised and incapacitated about 200 community women and adolescent girls to disseminate information on sexual and reproductive health issues in various slum clusters of North West Delhi.)