Anju Verma - a pioneer, a teacher, an angel in disguise for the poor children

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A victim of gender discrimination and domestic violence,a child rights champion, a teenager who started Buland Udaan, an organisation working for child welfare in 2017. Till date, Verma and her team at Buland Udaan have enrolled over 700 students in school, intervened in 15 sexual-harassment cases, stopped over 40 child marriages and prevented one female foeticide.

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