The eastern side of Nagpur comprises of vast slum areas devoid of basic health care facilities. For women living in these communities...

Wanted to share an uplifting story and video clip from Usha’s recent visit to Women in Need - Nagpur. Pushpa was 18 when we first...

From the earliest recordings of human existence, leprosy was an untreatable and dreaded disease, causing deformity and disability through...

To ensure that women from the poorest communities of Nagpur city receive a COVID vaccine WIN has been busy organising online...

Due to the new Delta Plus variant, Maharashtra has imposed another lock down causing further distress to thousands of jobless labourers....

Sangita is an educated woman from a respected family in Nagpur. After getting a degree in Economics and putting the steps in place to do...

There are millions of street dogs in India who are starving during lockdown. Life for a street dog was hard enough before COVID-19, but...

Wimal and Malu were an unlikely pair. Brought together by leprosy, their friendship was uncommon in its foundations, but had the love,...

Nagpur is a burgeoning city with a large migrant population living in settlements on the peripheries of the city. Most of the migrants’...

Coronavirus has turned our lives upside down. But during this lock down most of us will have food on the table and access to friends,...

A year ago, 35-year-old Vidhya discovered a lump in her breast and ignored it. Like thousands of other women who grew up in developing...

In India countless women are abandoned by their families because of mental illness. Forced to live on the streets, they’re subjected rape...

In an environment where there's apathy and a lack of support for the underprivileged, we're able to bring light into the lives of those...

18 yr old Nikita has Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Her poor parents couldn’t afford the costly treatment, so she resigned herself to dying at a...

With a 12% increase in breast cancer cases and a 14% increase in breast cancer deaths , the need for breast cancer awareness and...

Jazba Entertainment is a US registered non-profit organisation that focuses on spreading South Asian cultural awareness through dance and...

At just 30, Madhuri Gujar’s life has been a miserable one . Suffering from TB she lives with her mentally ill mother, partially sighted,...

Wimal was in her mid-thirties when Usha and I first met her . She was shy, nervous and had the classic deformities associated with long...

In 2000 Mainababi was one of the first women Leah and Usha helped . Her quality of life was poor; limited by deformity caused through...

Malaria, TB, dengue, jaundice, HIV, cancer, typhoid, respiratory diseases, depression, hypertension….. are just a few of the commonly...