Five years ago, Nanda earned a living cleaning dry latrines and disposing off night soil by carrying it in containers balanced on her head. She had married into a family of manual scavengers and was quickly initiated into the "family business" by her mother-in-law. She abhorred the work but since it was the only source of income, acquiesced to it. Between the two women, the family earned a paltry monthly income of Rs.400. But all that changed in 2003 when Dr Bindeshwar Pathak of the Sulabh International Social Service Organisation met up with the women manual scavengers of Alwar district and resolved to liberate and mainstream them Read the full story here ... http://www.indiatogether.org/2008/aug/wom-endscav.htm
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