Working closely with the people living in the slums and villages over the period of time I’ve realised how important their time is. Each time a woman comes for a workshop, she is taking a risk of not having water in her house for next 24 hours as the tanker comes once in a day with water in the slums. Even today Delhi slums do not have water connections, or a source of clean drinking water other than these tankers which aren’t always clean. Some are told to use clorine tablets, imagine what could go wrong if they don’t know what quantity to use and for drinking & consuming water !! Each minute is money for many of these women who work to run their household.

They get daily wages for the work they do being it mixing concrete or working in a nearby factory / outlet or households. While they take out an hour for the workshop their daily wage is deducted by few rupees. We might not even get a coffee for that amount but they run a house of 4 with that amount everyday. So next time when you say you’re busy, do keep these women in mind. We can always take out time for what we think is important and our priority, being busy is just a lame excuse. I may be wrong but that’s what I feel looking at these women.

Pictures from today’s menstrual hygiene workshop (Kusumpur Pahadi slum) followed by pads distribution with Frances Walker of #PrincetonUniversity who’s conducting a research on the WASH project for last 1 year, Indu Kapil from calcutta and our dear one Rekha Bhargava who heads the activities, coordination at the slums for over a decade now. Humans For Humanity