20 yr old Bhagyshree was featured in a post last year. Having lost both of her parents to AIDS she was ostracised by local village...

Like so many underprivileged Indian women, 60 year old Sharda has faced hardship in her life. Widowed at a young age with two small...

Susan Weston and her late husband Dr Norman Weston were champions of Women in Need, and the charity was incredibly proud to be associated...

The women we find on the streets have been subjected to repeated trauma, some over many years. They’re usually malnourished & suffering...

In 2007 female police officers carried a woman into WIN’s centre and dumped her on the floor. They said nothing of who she was and from...

Chetna’s story is a familiar one of betrayal and suffering. In India, women who’ve supported their families and provided children can...

Despite the large burden of disease in India and a cancer mortality rate of 71%, there is no nationwide, government sponsored public...

Life has been bleak for 18 year old Priya who lives with her 75 year old grandmother and mother. The 3 women live in poverty and contend...

Rani’s story In 2009 the local police at Wardha brought to our shelter a distressed and agitated woman in need of love and attention. 24...

For the second year G4G visited our shelter for abandoned women sharing New Year celebrations and food with the residents. Goals for...

Reshmi was found by Leah and Usha 6 years ago lying on the roadside. She was traumatised and unable to communicated or respond. Taken...

Pushpa's Story Pushpa is a single HIV+ mother with 3 children; one of whom it also HIV+. The charity first met her when she attended one...

Kisnikumari whose real name is Maya Devi, was featured in our bog on August 22nd under the title “Restoring Hope” with the promise of an...

Basanti was found on the street by an elderly leprosy patient who looked after her until WIN relocated her at the charity’s shelter in...

Kishna Kumari Kishna Kumari comes from a remote village in Bihar; approximately 800 miles from Nagpur. Following the disappearance of her...

Hundreds of thousands of Indian women with mental health disorders live in the most horrendous conditions. Their suffering is ignored by...

4 yrs ago Mamta was found on the streets in Wardha . She was confused and in a poor state of neglect. She’d been living roughly for a...

1 year ago Sewanat and her children were living on the streets HIV and TB+ Sewanta and her children spent 1 year living on the...

MALU has spent the last 20 years living on the streets of Nagpur because of the stigma of leprosy. She is completely cured of the...