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WHY UTTAR PRADESH?

Satyagyan Foundation focuses its work in Uttar Pradesh because it is one of the poorest states of India, infamous for its vast income disparities and intensifying gender discrimination. 30% of the state’s population lives below the poverty line, which means that 59.8 million people are imprisoned by limited education, high child mortality rates, inadequate health resources and contaminated drinking water. As a result of domestic abuse, marrying young and a lack of education, women’s current progress out of poverty and subjugation is slow and insufficient.

for the past few years, the dominant narrative on India of late is that it is the fourth largest economy in the world and a rising economic superstar. Unfortunately, this is not the whole story. India’s eight poorest states, including Uttar Pradesh where we work, have more people living in poverty than all of Africa’s 26 poorest nations combined. About 600 million Indians survive on less than $2 a day42% of children under the age of 5 remain malnourished, about 1.75 million children die before reaching their first birthday, and about 160 million children are not in school.

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