Data Stories

The Data Stories project will showcase inspiring examples of how SPOs are using data and data science to transform their operations, program delivery, and impact.

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Collecting evidence to create change

  • Story & Pics: Phorum Pandya |
  • Editor: Sowmya Rajaram
Nargis FIT programme
Nargis, Santoshi & Narmdi are all smiles.

Udayan Care’s data-rich study, Beyond 18, is helping vulnerable children transition smoothly from child care institutions into the outside world, through evidence-based intervention programs and support networks

Dressed in a floral-printed white skirt and a maroon top, 19-year-old Santoshi is a teenager with big dreams. A confident Gen Z, she holds an internship at WWF as a fundraiser. She has also pursued courses in web designing and fashion designing, and plans to apply for a job as a cabin crew in an airliner. Her life today is a far cry from when she was brought to a child..

Drawing inspiration from data

  • Story & Pics: Phorum Pandya |
  • Editor: Sowmya Rajaram

Mumbai-based NGO Saturday Art Class (SArC) conducted a nine-month study to understand how art could improve behavioural outcomes in students from low-income communities. The result? Measurable joy

Animals are roaring, birds are flapping their wings, and fish are swimming in the sea. This isn’t the scene of a mythical jungle by the sea somewhere in Utopia, but in a 40-seater classroom of Shankarwadi Mumbai Public School in Jogeshwari East, Mumbai, where fifth-grade students are enthusiastically enacting the cues given to them by Priyal Patki.

Patki is a facilitator and researcher with Saturday Art Class (SArC), a Mumbai-based NGO..

Priyal Patki facilitates a Saturday Art Class session at Shankarwadi Mumbai Public School in Jogeshwari East, Mumbai
Priyal Patki facilitates a Saturday Art Class session.

A game a day keeps malnutrition away

  • Story & Pics: Phorum Pandya |
  • Editor: Sowmya Rajaram
Government Secondary School (GSS) Rajasar
An NSF toolkit games session in progress at Government Secondary School (GSS) Rajasar, Rajasthan.

Nourishing Schools Foundation educates children from lower socio-economic backgrounds about their nutrition with a toolkit of educational games. The result? A higher BMI, and increased fruits and vegetables in their diet.

It is a blistering July afternoon, but the students between Grade 5 and 9 at Government Secondary School (GSS) in Kawani, a 50-minute ride from Bikaner city, are not tired.

Ten-year-old Sangeet holds up a picture of a mango on her forehead. Across her, Sunita reads out clues from..

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