What happens when you’re poor, marginalized and unable to earn a living

What happens when you’re poor, marginalised and unable to earn a living? Thousands of people face this problem every day and are left to cope alone. We started our first outreach work with a leper colony in Tirunelveli district. Today that colony has three women’s self help groups and several schools.

Our work with society’s unreachable has expanded:

•  we care for 1,000 of abandoned elderly people through a programme of outreach work
• we’ve helped 60,000 saltpan workers become free from the shackles of bonded labour.
• we found alternative work for snakecatchers
• we helped to build homes for the gypsy community

Much of our work with these groups follows the same approach as our work in the villages.