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19-year-old Mala dwells in Asha’s Mayapuri slum community since her birth. The hunt to earn a dignified livelihood brought Mala’s parents to this ghetto in the Western part of Delhi from a small village Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh some 25 years back. Since then, the family is settled in a rented unventilated house on a…

Ranjana, a 27-year-old woman lives in Asha’s Kusumpur Pahari slum community. She migrated to Delhi 10 years ago when she got married to her husband. Ranjana’s parents were daily wage farmers in the district of Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, working for other people’s farm. With 5 children in the family, food and shelter were scarce. Ranjana…

Success needs nothing but hard work and determination. This has been recently proved by Sonu, who is the first generation from his family to do a white-collar job. “Presently I am working as a Laboratory Technician, but my life was not at all like this”, says emotional Sonu. Sonu’s family migrated to the Jeevan Nagar…

Sharda is a 47-year-old year woman who resides in the Kusumpuri Pahari Slum community. She is a hardworking and self-made woman who likes to do social work. However, things were not easy for Sharda while growing up. Her parents were migrants from Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh in the 1970s who had settled in Dakshinpuri, Delhi. Her…