Month: January 2020
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Delivering Food Parcels in Topsia
On a mission to deliver emergency food rations to one very needy family and two very vulnerable elderly women.This was a difficult day. First we went to Maya’s home – a shelter down a dark alley between the busy road and the sewage canal. Maya has no toilet facilities, no running water and no means…
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Visiting the Park Circus Children’s Club
I don’t know where to begin. I have been visiting Tiljala SHED for 5 years and thought I couldn’t be surprised by anything. Yesterday I was invited to attend school. Local children from the Park Circus Railway Squatters (mostly the children of ragpickers) attend our community centre 5 days a week. This group attends government…
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Rehana: from success to despair to renewed hope
Back in Kolkata at last!Yesterday I went to visit some of our beneficiaries – redoubtable women from the Topsia Squatter camp who are making a success out of lives lived perched over a sewage canal. Rehana at home in her better days. Rehana is one of our star performers: with a tiny loan of about…