Penned By Board Member Ms. Alo Pal
A child loses her father at a tender age
A woman is urged to abort her third child by her own husband’s mistress
A widowed mother operates a snack cart opposite an arrack shop, gets a drinking habit, and abuses her child violently at the drop of a hat
A woman is ostracized by her family because she marries into another “lower” caste
A woman takes up a partner after the death of her husband, and this partner starts to molest his lover’s young daughter
A girl child fares well at school but has to discontinue studies and get busy with housework because she is a girl. She is forced to abandon her studies after the 10th.
A woman’s husband is abusive, a drunkard, unproductive, and jealous of his wife’s independence and capacity to earn
A society that has branded a woman’s third child, a son, as evil – just because he’s a third child and he- is a boy
An elderly alcoholic woman asks her daughter and son-in-law to move in with her as she is alone and gets his son-in-law into the habit of drinking, essentially to break up the marriage of her daughter with this man, whom she did not approve of.
A woman who doesn’t care anymore for her husband’s love, care, attention, or monetary contribution to the family, leading a tough life managing to bring food to the table, and sending her children to school has enough compassion and humanity left in her to suffer her husband and not wish him ill.
Over the years, listening to the life stories of our beneficiaries, I have heard many times the scenarios above befalling our women.
[Image 1:Tulasi]
[Image 2: Tulasi at her shop]
[Image 3: Tulasi recieving loan from Program Manager, Mr. Prakash]
