Moving beyond! Period. – Adolescent girls are no longer dropping out due to sanitation issues in schools

Anoop Saxena In the sun-drenched Class 11 classroom of the Government Girls’ High School in Dhenkanal, Odisha, 16-year-old Itishree is hunched over a desk, her pen racing to keep up with a complex calculus problem. Five years ago, the odds of her being in this room – or any classroom – were slim. In rural…