Inspiring Stories of People and Communities Fighting Discrimination and Inequality

STORIES OF CHANGE

India Discrimination Report

11 Aug, 2020

Puri, Odisha

Cash Support Helps Restart Business

Gitanjali Kandi ran a small petty shop, on the footpath, selling fried groundnuts to tourists just outside of the Konark Sun Temple. Her income was supplemented with her husband, Narendra’s, dail...

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India Discrimination Report

07 Aug, 2020

Assam

Locked Down in Tea Estates

“This lockdown is a threat to our survival. I can’t go out to work and I have no money. How can we spend on soap to wash hands, when we have no money for food. There has been no income since the lockd...

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India Discrimination Report

15 Jul, 2020

Chennai

A Pleasant Surprise

Twenty-eight year old Amul lives with her mother and her grandmother (both are widowed), along with her husband Sakthivel, and her two kids Shanmugapriya (who studies in class 4) and Aarish (in class ...

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India Discrimination Report

15 Jul, 2020

Chennai

A Shopping Experience

Thirty-year-old Mahalakshmi lives with her husband Rajesh and her two children—five-year-old Pavarthini, a special child (she has cerebral palsy) and her younger son four-year-old Aaron. Rajesh is a t...

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India Discrimination Report

14 Jul, 2020

Chennai

Timely Intervention

Abhinaya is 35 years old and resides in M.K.B Nagar, in Chennai, with her partner Bhavani. Abhinaya had left home at a very early age to fend for herself and to create an identity. She started working...

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Education

01 Jul, 2020

Uttar Pradesh

Bypassing The Digital Divide

Mithilesh Kumar Tripathi had two things weighing on his mind — one was the pandemic and the other was school education. As an active member of the School Management Committee of the primary school in ...

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