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Girls First girls at their school in rural Bihar, India

A New Advocate for Peace & Women’s Rights | Ritu’s Story

How Ritu, an 8th grade girl in rural Bihar, India, has become an advocate for peace and women’s rights since completing CorStone’s Girls First program.

Poonam’s Story | CorStone Girls First

My Dreams & Strengths In My Own Words | Poonam’s Story

Poonam, a 14 year old girl living in rural Bihar, India shares her big dreams, a lot of heart and her changed perspective after completing the CorStone Girls First program.

Girls participate in a Girls First Group in rural Bihar, India

Bihar’s girls and women find their resilience

CorStone Program Facilitator, Namrata Bhalla, shares what students in CorStone’s Girls First resilience program have learned to take control of their lives.

Girls Stand up to Gender Discrimination in Bihar, India

CorStone Master Trainer, Aditi, shares her story on the impact that Girls First resilience training deliver to participants in Bihar, India: Girls standing up to gender discrimination.

Training session | Girls First

Resilience: Can it Keep Water Clean in India’s Middle Schools?

How organized action and new found confidence by CorStone’s Girls First participants helps to keep water clean for middle school girls in Bihar, India.

Nivedita Singh | CorStone Girls First Project Coordinator

Discovering My Resilience

CorStone Project Coordinator, Nivedita Singh, shares how the Girls First resilience training has taught her to be more patient and calm in face of a challenge.

Join our Community | CorStone

In honor of International Day of the Girl | Special message from ‘Girls First’ , India

A special message from CorStone’s Girls First participants in Bihar, India on how their future looks so bright.

14 year old refuses early marriage | CorStone

A 14 year old girl stands up to early marriage in India

Learn how a 14 year old dalit girl in Bihar, India speaks up to make an empowering decision that changed her life.

Circle of Resilience | CorStone

The Circle of Resilience

Today, we sat in a circle of resilience with 15 girls attending our Girls First program in Patna, India. It was a test of my resilience and an awakening of love, compassion and hope.

Sangath Research Results | CorStone

CorStone’s Resiliency Program for Girls in India | Results are in!

Research results of Children’s Resiliency Program for Girls conducted by Sangath that included 1,000 girls from the slums of Surat, India.

The power of a single thought to affect change | CorStoneing and receiving are the same | Attitudinal Healin

My Blessing, My Curse

Giving and receiving are the same. As a core principle of Attitudinal Healing, the impact of this core principal is reflected in all of the work that we do for adolescent, underserved girls in India.

Sonal’s Story | CorStone

A story of resilience from the slums of Surat, India

Girls First participant, Sonal, shares her story of resilience on overcoming community norms of hopelessness and violence to become a self-assured young woman.

Federation of Women Slum Dwellers | CorStone

The Empowerment of Hope

Meet three courageous women who have only known abuse, discrimination, and fear who share an empowering path of hope to a better life for themselves and their children.

Reflections of Hope | CorStone

Reflections and Gratitude from India

Reflections of the women in the slums of Gujarat, India who demonstrate warmth, generosity, heartfelt smiles, authenticity, and dignity in their daily struggle with grinding poverty.

Resilience starts from within | CorStone

Ratna’s transformation through discovery of equality, dignity and love

Learn how Ratna finds her resilience to change the lives of girls in her community in rural India.

Girls First Resilience Program | CorStone

My Day in the Slums of Surat, India

As part of the recent launch of CorStone’s Children’s Resiliency Program with 1,000 at-risk adolescent girls in India, Steve Leventhal shares his reflections on the slums of Surat.

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