Vol. XVBengaluru · India
The Aahwahan Foundation

The Aahwahan Journal

First-person dispatches from the villages, clinics and classrooms we serve — reported from the field, printed for the record.

The Lead Story
Health

Why a regular blood check-up is useful

A blood test is the quietest kind of medicine — it speaks before the illness does. On our Health on Wheels vans, one screening can flag anaemia, sugar or a cervical-cancer risk long before a family would ever reach a hospital.

The Health Desk·Jul 01, 2026·4 min read
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Why a regular blood check-up is useful
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Healthy food habits for growing children
Nutrition·5 min read

Healthy food habits for growing children

A child learns best on a full, balanced plate. Small, affordable swaps — a fistful of greens, an egg, a little less sugar — quietly rebuild the concentration a classroom depends on.

The Nutrition Desk · Jun 24, 2026
Why tree plantation is more than planting trees
Environment·5 min read

Why tree plantation is more than planting trees

Seventy lakh saplings and counting — but the number is not the story. What matters is the native species chosen, the geo-tag that follows each one, and the years of watering after the cameras leave.

The Green Desk · Jun 12, 2026
We do not report on the field from a distance. We file these dispatches from inside it — because change reads truer in the words of the people living it.
— From the Editor's Desk, Aahwahan Foundation
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