Ria Sharma’s first book Make Love Not Scars voices the brave stories of acid attack survivors. An excerpt from ‘Rehabilitating the Survivors’: AT SOME POINT ONE IS BOUND TO COME TO A crossroads of sorts. It wasn’t my work that was failing me, it was my inability to rehabilitate the survivors successfully that was demotivating me. Slowly […]

Throwing acid at women is one of the cruellest acts of violence. Besides the physical scars, the survivors also suffer from long-term emotional trauma. But in a bid to better the lives of acid attack survivors, several initiatives are being taken up. Let us look at some of them: Employment at DCW In 2016, the Delhi […]

Ria Sharma, a young woman who started an NGO called Make Love Not Scars (MLNS) to help acid attacks survivors get on with their lives, has bagged the UN’s Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards. Global Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, Priyanka Chopra, handed over the award to her in New York on Tuesday night (Sept 19). Ria is the only Indian […]

When she walks the ramp at the New York Fashion Week, it will be a vindication of her belief that an acid attack need not mean her life is over.

In a bid to rehabilitate acid attack survivors, the DCW, has taken the step of employing two such victims,,who take care of the ‘Acid Watch Cell’