by Ruchira Gupta | May 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
-By Ruchira Gupta As I drove back through the empty streets, thinking of the 2,0000 women in line waiting for food, in the capital of India, I pondered on the injustice of it all. Did this have to be? Was the only way to avoid Covid-19 to stop street...
by Ruchira Gupta | May 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
-By Ruchira Gupta Within days of the first SOS message from a little girl in a red- light area, asking for food, my phone was flooded with similar messages of hunger and desperation. Women and children from the red-light areas, refugee camps, and migrant slums...
by Ruchira Gupta | May 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
-By Ruchira Gupta What do you do when a little girl tells you that she is starving? Simple. You do anything you can to make sure it won’t happen again. Or at least that’s what I did – one year ago, towards the end of March 2020, when a deadly pandemic had...
by deb | May 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Twelve-year-old Anisha(name changed) called Apne Aap a few days after the announced Junta Curfew on 23rd March 2020. The soft voice of the little girl on the other side of the phone was full of distress and panic. She somehow managed to inform that her family had not...