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Eleven months, twelve slum communities, women home chefs and their recipes together helped to create ‘Hope and Spice’. This has been a true labour of love by the enthusiastic duo Amanda Clegg and Victoria Byrne. ‘Hope and Spice’ was officially launched in India on Oct 30th at the British High Commission. This event was graciously covered and featured…

“In the early 1990s, I remember my shop was one of the only 2 shops in this area of our slum, it was unheard of a woman to own a business in our community back then. During such a time I took a step forward and achieved success,” says Maya with utmost pride. Then Maya…

60 years Shahjahan hails from a small village in Uttar Pradesh. She was born to a very poor family and her father married her off in 1975 when she was just 15 years old. After marriage, Shahjahan shifted to her husband’ s little shanty in the Mayapuri slum community. Abdul Wahid, Shahjahan’s husband was a…

No child should witness his parent’s death, but unfortunately, Vivekanand did. 19-year-old Vivek (fondly called) resides in Anna Nagar slum community. When he was 13-year-old it was a normal day for Vivek, he came from school had his lunch and went to play outside with his friends. But after some time, people came informing him…