India, Oct. 23 -- At the 3rd International Conference on Public Health and Nutrition (ICPHN 2025), organized by Sukarya with partners including the Gates Foundation, Dasra and the University of Washington, experts highlighted that 56 per cent of adolescent girls are anaemic and one in four adolescents faces nutritional imbalance. The conference urged India to treat adolescence as its "second window of growth," investing in nutrition, education and preventive health.

For over two decades, the story of community revival in India has often been written in quiet, determined acts-far from the spotlight, yet deeply transformative. One such story is that of Sukarya, an organisation that has been steadily weaving change across slums and rural be...