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Our problem/solution for India, falls under the same goals as the United Nations Sustainable Development Framework (SDF), a cooperation between the government of India and the United Nations. The implementation of this framework started in 2018, and will go through 2022. Our problem-statement falls under 4 out of the 7 focus areas of the SDF; this includes education, elimination of poverty, gender equality and youth development, and health. Our goals are similiar to the SDF's, making our project ideal to collaborate and work on with the UN and India. Through the SDF, we would have adequate and strategic support in improving and alleviating poverty in India with our prototype.

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Over the years, progress has been made in India concerning sex education. This is significant since sex is not easily talked about and is considered taboo. In previous years, teachers all over India would be threatened with violence if they were to teach sex-ed in school. In 2014, the Indian Health Minister was against sex education and wanted to ban it in all schools. Many schools in India did already have it banned- which goes to show how opposed sex-education was. This was overturned just recently in 2018, when the Prime Minister incorporated sex-ed in India’s school curriculum. Although cultural norms about sex are deeply-rooted in India, we hope to create an environment where sex can be talked about in an open and comforting manner.

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3. Our third alternative incorporates elements from the other two solutions. It involves creating a reproductive health clinic in various areas in India. Our services would provide women with what they need to prevent underage/unintended pregnancies. The clinic would also vocalize the importance of taking preventive measures by presenting safe-sex care packages.

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2. An alternative solution we came up with was simply creating and distributing free safe sex care packages for men and women, starting with the poorest regions.

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When coming up with solutions, we aimed to be empathetic and creative.

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1. One of our alternatives for solving our problem was creating a national characters, a long with a cartoon, whose niche would be educating and talking about safe sex in a comfortable and accepting way that will reach everyone, all ages,  in the country.

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Indian girls in villages and regions are expected to marry older man. Many of the girls ages range from 15-17 years old. The girls lack sexual education. It is something that is not taught in school or by parents. Cultural hindrances has a lot to do with why sex education is not taught to girls since it is not easily discussed in society.

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The leading causes of high poverty rate in India are overpopulation and the lack of sex education to young girls.

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Out of the three alternative solutions for our region, we decided on using the idea to educate young women on the importance of safe sex through a Reproductive health clinic. This clinic will provide care-packages filled with essentials (i.e. Condoms, birth control pamphlets with information on safe sex and about our clinic and its purpose, etc.) for the ladies that decide to come in. There will also be a way to set up anonymous appointments via phone call if women are uncomfortable discussing private information in public. Our clinic will not only promote safe sex, but will provide women the proper education they need to make the right steps in their role towards defeating the issue of poverty in their region.

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We chose Devprayag as a subregion in India to test our prototype. Devprayag has a population of 2144, with 48% female, and no reproductive health clinics, which is why we chose this region. It was best to start off with a small population and work our way up after gatherings and improvements. Out of that 48%, we selected 100 girls that ranged from ages 15-21 and provided them service. Each month, a nurse from our clinic checked in with their assigned group of women, asking questions about how they are utilizing the program, the care-packages, and additional services. We monitored them over the course of a year to see if our services stunted their population growth. Our goal was to have minimal unplanned pregnancies by the end of the year.

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As a team, we have come to the conclusion that although entrepreneurship is a step in the right direction, it is not the best solution for global poverty. There are things that people need to be provided before jobs are open to them. There are many steps that governments need to take charge of before they begin to advertise entrepreneurship. However, once populations are provided with their essentials and trained to keep themselves educated and continuously sustained on their own, then we can introduce the idea of entrepreneurship.