Urban Environment

Organizing the Left out

Lathahas been dropped from her school when she attained puberty. She got married to her maternal uncle when she was 13 years old. He is 15 years older than her. Her husband is an alcohol addict and a gambler. She has a daughter when she was at 15 and a son when she was 20 years old. So she started working in a pappad company as a laborer. Her husband died when she was 25 years of age.

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Women of Determination

I don’t have anybody, why should I save money for the future? This is the first question of Ms.Sankaravadivu while Kalanjiam approached her to join as a member of Thamarai Kalanjiam on June - 2015 in the newly promoted Sammatipuram location under WSI support. Sankaravadivu, born in a poor family and got married as a second wife to an auto driver Mr.Thalathan. He has lost his first wife and has two sons and one daughter. Sankaravadivu after marriage got combined with her new family as if hers. Both the sons (teenagers at the time of her marriage) have become drunken and in few year moved out of the family.

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