Durga* was born in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Visakhapatnam in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. The area of the house provided to the…
“Today, my life would have been hopeless and meaningless without God, and I got a chance to be somebody and have hope for the future,” says Prem….
Ritu* was born in January 1999 in a small village of Jharkhand District. She lost her father when she was just a few months old, leaving her…
The American author, Harriet Beecher Stowe once quoted, “Women are the real architects of society,” and Mrs. Lalitha Varma, the Director of Sunrise Children’s Home is the…
In the year 2002, while the earth was rotating on its usual axis and the world was going about in its daily conundrum, in the village of…
Rentha and Maloti were residents of the pristine village of Panbari, a village which is tucked away in the northern corner of West Bengal. The two fell…
For many years, there has been an inside war going on between culture conservation and modern development in the hills of the Malkangiri district. While the government…
Reshmi* who hails from the beautiful county of Nepal located in Central Asia between India and China was born blind along with two of her siblings, never…
The headlines on May 13, 2008 shook the world at best, ‘Over 12, 000 killed in Sichuan earthquake,’ ‘9 synchronized bombs leave 63 dead in Jaipur in…
Family Background: Mahadevaswamy comes from a joint family, a joint family system is one in which people live with their extended family. He has a hearing impairment…