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Women's Day celebrated at Guwahati

Women's Day was celebrated by Society and Heallth in collaboration with sSTEP at Guwahati on THursday. An octogenerian street dweller of Panbazar Sukleswar Mandir inaugurated the occasion. Around 70 women from street dwellers, slams, daily wage earner, domestic helper participated the programme. Prabhat Ch Sharma, founder member of Society and Heallth supported the program by giving  mosquito nets  to the needy people.

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