Gayapati had long wanted a toilet constructed in her home. Lack of money and little support from her family, who did not see it as priority, prevented this from happening. During one of her SHG meeting, she learned it would
“Ants federate. So do Crows. Doctors, lawyers and other such group all federate and act as a unit. We, the women, constitute half the people on earth and suffer more than any other group. Why should we not come together
Rehmatul was married into a poor family of bonded labourers and her life was a daily struggle for food and water. When her son died of meningitis, her husband went into deep depression. It was the support of the women
Shama barely had time to recover from the tragic deaths of her father and brother when her in-laws, who deemed her inauspicious, kicked her out of her house. She was forced to flee with her six children without shelter and
Suman had little to look forward to in life. Married at fifteen and belonging to the Dalit Ahirwar community (lower caste), she was confined to her home and always veiled. She had very little education and even lesser money to