Laxmi was born to a very poor family in a small village of Haryana. Like the fate of other girls residing nearby she too was pulled out of the school when she was in grade 3. Ever since after that,…
A resident of Savda slum, Deepak’s father migrated from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh in the early 1990s. He got married and started living with his family in Thokar No.8 slum colony located on Yamuna’s riverbed. He started a small business of…
Seventeen-year-old Sagar’s parents Bansi and Sonam migrated to Dr Ambedkar Basti in the capital city-Delhi from their village in search of a better livelihood and opportunity for two decades ago. But like the other millions of migrants, they too ended…
30-year-old Zareena Bano hails from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, where she spent her childhood along with her 6 other siblings. Her father was a labourer who earned a sum of Rs.500 (6.97 USD/ 5.4 £) a month which was not enough…
Santosh is a young 10-year-old boy who lives in the slum community by the riverbed. He was born with perfect eyesight, but unfortunate circumstances have led him to completely losing his vision at a tender age. It all started in…
65-year-old Hasina presently resides in the Seelampur slum colony. Hasina originally is from Jhansi in Madya Pradesh. When she was barely a few months old, her family shifted to Mumbai as her father was in Indian Railway. Hasina got married…
“I ignored the redness and itching of my right eye for a long time, in our community we learn not to make a big deal of small issues and I believed the same. As my eyesight got poorer, I started…
A resident of Navjeevan Camp in Asha’s Kalkaji slum community- Shabnam lives with her husband and in-laws. Shabnam’s husband works day and night in a private firm to feed the family of five on an earning of Rs 10, 000…
“A so-called Doctor would put some dreaded drops in my eyes in a bid to help me. Confused, I would try to protest but in vain; as my mother would hush me. I used to cry sometimes afterwards while sitting…
It is not inappropriate to talk about menstruation! It is not wrong to express your menstrual cramps! To clear the doubts and fight the menstrual taboos in our society, the team from Macquarie Global Limited’s Gurugram office along with the…
