It was Tuesday, May 15, when a 65-year-old woman entered the Sakinaka police station in Mumbai to seek help. She had been working as a maid at the Sakinaka’s Chachad Hospital for over 20 years. And was left jobless and homeless after the ‘hospital’, which was her workplace and home, was demolished last month. The woman, identified […]

A woman in Odisha, whose house was destroyed by an elephant, recently gave birth under a dirty culvert, reported NDTV. Pramila Tiria’s house was destroyed six months back. She was pregnant at the time. With no roof over her head, she recently gave birth under a culvert. The woman and the baby could have contracted life-threatening […]

For Dehradun-based Shruti Kaushik, helping distressed women and children has become a way of life. Kaushik, who started an NGO — Saheli Trust — in 2013, is a certified engineer, but found her calling in social work. Inspiration behind Saheli Trust   Kaushik narrates how a very close childhood friend was sold by her own relatives. […]