Our Centre recently invested in a tiny 100cc 8 seater Suzuki van to take children to hospital, act as an ambulance, buy large supplies for our community centre etc. The van was ‘christened’ when a 22 year old Tribal woman’s…
Padma has nine children and was married to a labourer (who makes about $100 a month). Their family was verging on starvation already, but when her husband left, she was forced to take a job as a cleaning woman for…
Anjali is one of the many Indian women in India who have suffered domestic violence. Women are often uneducated and unable to support themselves financially, and therefore and dependent on men who often dominate and abuse them (some surveys have…
Priya is a village woman who didn’t finish school. She is dangerously malnourished. Priya’s husband died from Tuberculosis which is a poverty related illness. Because she is not educated, she can’t get a good paying job to support her family.…
Yashodhara is a child of the slums. Her father works at the mill, where he inhales the poisonous fumes of dyed clothes all day. This has destroyed his health and his lungs are almost at collapse point (he is 50).…
Bodhicitta Foundation is running job training programs for women and girls. We picked three random stories for our newsletter. These three women are very much like all the other girls/ women of our project. The most common characteristic we notice…
My name is Ayeesha and I’m 14 years old. I have 3 other sisters and my father is an alcoholic. Right now he’s in he hospital, he can’t walk and sometimes he can’t remember me. He always fights with my mother and…