Tag: starvation

  • Hunger is eating into India

    NAFISA lost her four-month-old baby to hunger. Mubina, a tailor, has been out of work since the pandemic induced lockdowns. Her family is starving. She doesn’t have a ration card and hence cannot access the subsidised rations through the government’s food aid programme. Kesariya lost her son. Hunger and helplessness pushed the young man to…

  • Celebrating The Older Generation

    On the 14th of December 1990, the United Nations declared the 1st of October each year to be International Day of Older Persons. A day dedicated to those people who are rich in their own history, who can teach us things no one else can, and deserve respect for the contributions they have made to…