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  • Meenu Vadera (center, in blue) checks test papers as she jokes with students and staff on 30th March 2010 in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0471.JPG
  • Female drivers point out locations as a map reading class is held in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0327.JPG
  • Female drivers point out locations as a map reading class is held in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0317.JPG
  • A pre-learners-licence class is held in Azad Foundation as a new batch of women prepare to take an examination for their 'L' licence.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0237.JPG
  • A pre-learners-licence class is held in Azad Foundation as a new batch of women prepare to take an examination for their 'L' licence.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0224.JPG
  • A pre-learners-licence class is held in Azad Foundation as a new batch of women prepare to take an examination for their 'L' licence.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0198.JPG
  • Ekta aged 28 (right) and Mamta (left) aged 26 on the streets of Delhi on 30th March 2010.<br />
These female drivers were part of a program by Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0135.JPG
  • Ekta aged 28 (leftt) and Mamta (right) aged 26 pose for a photo on 30th March 2010 with their driving licences and chaffeur cards.<br />
These female drivers were part of a program by Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0127.JPG
  • Ekta Yadav aged 28 on the streets of Delhi on 30th March 2010.<br />
These female drivers were part of a program by Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0109.JPG
  • Ekta aged 28 (left) and Mamta (right) aged 26 on the streets of Delhi on 30th March 2010.<br />
These female drivers were part of a program by Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0078.JPG
  • Ekta Yadav aged 28 on the streets of Delhi on 30th March 2010.<br />
These female drivers were part of a program by Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0047.JPG
  • Ekta Yadav aged 28 on the streets of Delhi on 30th March 2010.<br />
These female drivers were part of a program by Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0042.JPG
  • Ekta Yadav aged 28 (right) and Mamta aged 26 (left) pose for a photo on 30th March 2010 in Radiant Limousine compounds.<br />
These female drivers were part of a program by Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0040.JPG
  • Ekta Yadav aged 28 (left) and Mamta aged 26 pose for a photo on 30th March 2010 in Radiant Limousine compounds.<br />
These female drivers were part of a program by Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0035.JPG
  • Meenu Vadera poses for a portrait on 30th March 2010 in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0575.JPG
  • Meenu Vadera poses for a portrait on 30th March 2010 in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0553.JPG
  • Meenu Vadera (center, in blue) checks test papers as she jokes with students and staff on 30th March 2010 in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0531.JPG
  • Meenu Vadera (center, in blue) checks test papers as she jokes with students and staff on 30th March 2010 in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0482.JPG
  • Graduating female drivers sit for a theory test in Azad Foundation.<br />
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Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0448.JPG
  • Graduating female drivers sit for a theory test in Azad Foundation.<br />
<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0423.JPG
  • Graduating female drivers sit for a theory test in Azad Foundation.<br />
<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0418.JPG
  • Meenu Vadera (center, in blue) talks with students and staff on 30th March 2010 in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0404.JPG
  • Female drivers point out locations as a map reading class is held in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0368.JPG
  • Meenu Vadera (center, in blue) talks with students and staff on 30th March 2010 in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0297.JPG
  • Ekta Yadav, aged 28, pose for a photo on 30th March 2010 with her driving licence, the only proof of identity she has.<br />
These female drivers were part of a program by Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0114.JPG
  • Ekta Yadav aged 28 on the streets of Delhi on 30th March 2010.<br />
These female drivers were part of a program by Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0053.JPG
  • Meenu Vadera (center, in blue) checks test papers as she jokes with students and staff on 30th March 2010 in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0536.JPG
  • Graduating female drivers sit for a theory test in Azad Foundation.<br />
<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0433.JPG
  • Graduating female drivers sit for a theory test in Azad Foundation.<br />
<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0405.JPG
  • Female drivers point out locations as a map reading class is held in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0329.JPG
  • Meenu Vadera (center, in blue) talks with students and staff on 30th March 2010 in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0293.JPG
  • A pre-learners-licence class is held in Azad Foundation as a new batch of women prepare to take an examination for their 'L' licence.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0181.JPG
  • Ekta Yadav, aged 28, pose for a photo on 30th March 2010 with her driving licence, the only proof of identity she has.<br />
These female drivers were part of a program by Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0117.JPG
  • Mamta, aged 26 on the streets of Delhi on 30th March 2010.<br />
These female drivers were part of a program by Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0059.JPG
  • Meenu Vadera poses for a portrait on 30th March 2010 in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0584.JPG
  • Graduating female drivers sit for a theory test in Azad Foundation.<br />
<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0444.JPG
  • Maps, anti-abuse posters and social campaign posters adorn the walls of Azad Foundation.<br />
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Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0294.JPG
  • Ekta Yadav, aged 28, pose for a photo on 30th March 2010 with her driving licence and chaffeur card.<br />
These female drivers were part of a program by Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0123.JPG
  • Mamta, aged 26 on the streets of Delhi on 30th March 2010.<br />
These female drivers were part of a program by Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20100330-Azad-Foundation-0089.JPG
  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in yellow saree), 52, sells a few copies of this week's newspapers to villagers in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in yellow saree), 52, speaks with a group of illiterate women, as they wait to attend a group reading of this week's newspapers in their village in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod (right), 24, helps her sisters to prepare lunch as her sister Nayna (left), 27, combs her hair at home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. While Niru's sisters have become seamstresses or housewives, Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Workers prepare to print the current issue of Khabar Lahariya weekly newspaper, after receiving the files from the newspaper's Chitrakoot office, in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India on 06 December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
    suzanne20121222-mc-protest-gangrape-...JPG
  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
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  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
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  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
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  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
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  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
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  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
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  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
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  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
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  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
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  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
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  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
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  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
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  • Mass protesters hold up placards and chant their demands for justice and better safety for women after a brutal sexual assault on a young medical student  sparked women, men and youth to take to the streets, fed up with government and police lack of interest in making Delhi a safer place for women, and swarming a long stretch all the way from India Gate to Raisina Hill, at the gates of the Parliament, in Delhi, India on 22nd December 2012. The assaulted medical student was gang raped in a moving bus on 16th December 2012 and violated with an iron rod, and her male chaperone brutally beaten with the same rod. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France
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  • Workers fold the current issue of Khabar Lahariya weekly newspaper, after receiving the files from the newspaper's Chitrakoot office, in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India on 06 December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Workers print the current issue of Khabar Lahariya weekly newspaper, after receiving the files from the Khabar Lahariya Chitrakoot office, in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India on 06 December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Village journalist women work together on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Village journalist women work together on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Village journalist women work together on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Village journalist women work together on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Village journalist women work together on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Junior community reporter Sunita, 22, prepares tea for her home-bound husband at their one bedroom house in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Sunita and her husband, now sick with TB and unable to work, were estranged from their families because they married against the family's wishes, so Sunita, who had finished her high-school education, supports her husband on the income she makes as a journalist. She makes about 4500 rupees a month. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Kamlesh Kumari (2nd from right), 28, reads this week's Khabar Lahariya newspaper out loud to her whole family and illiterate friends at her house in a village in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Kamlesh, a mother of 2, is a farmer, earning about 20000 rupees of sales per annum from her 2 acre farm. She dreams of becoming a journalist for Khabar Lahariya but is not able to apply since the newspaper only takes one reporter in each area, and Sunita is already working in the area. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Kamlesh Kumari (right), 28, receives this week's Khabar Lahariya newspaper from Sunita (unseen) at her house in a village in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Kamlesh, a mother of 2, is a farmer, earning about 20000 rupees of sales per annum from her 2 acre farm. She dreams of becoming a journalist for Khabar Lahariya but is not able to apply since the newspaper only takes one reporter in each area, and Sunita is already working in the area. Kamlesh reads the papers out loud to her whole family and illiterate friends. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Junior community reporter Sunita (center), 22, distributes this week's Khabar Lahariya newspaper to Kamlesh Kumari (right), 28, at her house in a village in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Kamlesh, a mother of 2, is a farmer, earning about 20000 rupees of sales per annum from her 2 acre farm. She dreams of becoming a journalist for Khabar Lahariya but is not able to apply since the newspaper only takes one reporter in each area, and Sunita is already working in the area. Kamlesh reads the papers out loud to her whole family and illiterate friends. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • A traditional Dalit woman walks past as Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Villagers buy vegetables from a minivan in a remote village where Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, is making documentaries on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • (Clockwise from left) Niru, 24, and her sisters, Daksha 15, Kailash, 19, Mukta, 22, and Nayna 27 carrying her son Dev 3, and their father Jethabhai Rathod, 60 pose for a family Portrait at home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to Jethabhai, a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod (right), 24, looks through her video footage on her camera while her sister Mukta (center), 22,  attends to a tailoring customer at home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. While Niru's sisters have become seamstresses or housewives, Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod's sister Mukta (center), 22, prepares lunch for their large family at home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. While Niru's sisters have become seamstresses or housewives, Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • An upper caste family listens as Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with their family members in their home on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. The last time Niru had come to their home, she was discriminated against and served tea in a saucer meant for lower castes. Now, after seeing the effects of her video activism, the family no longer discriminates against her. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Crows play in the wind above a river with low water levels in Surendranagar a small town area where Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, makes documentaries on topics of water and other socio-environmental issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • An elderly man walks through agricultural lands as children play a village game in the fields in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Community reporter Shanti Adivasi, 52, sits for a portrait in a village house in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Community reporter Shanti Adivasi, 52, sits for a portrait in a village house in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in yellow saree), 52, distributes this week's Khabar Lahariya newspaper to a subscriber at his home in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • A village woman touches Shanti Adivasi's (in yellow saree), 52, feet as a prominent mark of extreme respect as Shanti chats with elderly villagers in a remote tribal village in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in yellow saree), 52, sells a few copies of this week's newspapers to villagers in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in yellow saree), 52, walks with a group of illiterate villagers, to conduct a reading of this week's newspapers under the community People Tree in their village in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in yellow saree), 52, interviews a worker in a roadside food stall in Jawaharnagar area in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi, 52, folds the newspapers at home before heading out to distribute them to her subscribers in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi, 52, gets dressed in her home, where she lives with her 3 generation family of 14, in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi, 52, works without electricity with her interview notes as she does every evening on a row of beds she shares with her family of 14 in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 4th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (unseen), 52, gets dressed to go to work as her daughter-in-law (left) cooks for the family in their house in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in white saree), 52, interviews villagers while distributing this week's newspapers to her subscribers such as Ayodhya Prasad Sen (right), 37, who said of Shanti, "she's a woman with a man's heart, to be able to come into these jungles and do the work she does", in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 4th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod (left), 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Junior community reporter Sunita, 22, walks to a remote village to distribute this week's Khabar Lahariya newspapers and interview villagers in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Sunita and her husband, now sick with TB and unable to work, were estranged from their families because they married against the family's wishes, so Sunita, who had finished her high-school education, supports her husband on the income she makes as a journalist. She makes about 4500 rupees a month. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi, 52, folds the newspapers at home before heading out to distribute them to her subscribers in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • A subscriber of Khabar Lahariya reads his copy of this week's newspapers at his snacks shop in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Village journalist women work together on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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