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She rows 18km every day to care for children
November 23, 2020

Relu Vasave, an anganwadi worker from Nandurbar rows 18 km daily to attend to children under 6 years of age and expecting mothers in interior villages. She says, "Rowing daily is tough but it's important that babies and expecting mothers eat nutritious food and be healthy."

The anganwadi programme was begun by the Indira Gandhi government in 1975. 
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