When health worker Neelam Kumari knocks on doors in Indian villages the occupants sometimes run out the back, terrified that she wants to vaccinate them against Covid-19. With India‘s devastating recent virus surge easing in cities, the deadly pandemic is ravaging the vast poverty-stricken rural hinterland. But here, ignorance and fear rule. “A lot of […]
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How Goats are Empowering Women in Rural Sindh
When you meet Zafarunnisa, a resident in the village Muhammad Hassan Halo, Tando Muhammed Khan, you can immediately sense how protective she is of her two goats. ‘Sometimes, I feel my affection for them is similar to what I feel for him,’ she bounces the one-year old she’s holding while she makes rounds. As beloved […]
Higher education for rural areas
Dawn had yet to break that Monday morning. Asif, a student of F.Sc, was briskly walking to the Daud Khel Railway Station in Mianwali district, to board a train in order to get to his college in the neighbouring district. He is a brilliant student who topped his class, and despite all odds, his poverty-stricken family decided […]