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  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
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  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
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  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
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  • Amin Hussain (center with money in hand), discuss with other men who gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Newspaper sellers sort out and sell newspapers on the road in the Mehar Chand market street early in the morning on 20th October 2008 in New Delhi, India. With internet still out of reach for 95% of the country and literacy higher than ever, more and more are turning to newspapers and magazines.  Photo : Suzanne Lee
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  • Newspaper sellers sort out and sell newspapers on the main road of Nizamuddin early in the morning on 20th October 2008 in New Delhi, India. With internet still out of reach for 95% of the country and literacy higher than ever, more and more are turning to newspapers and magazines.  Photo : Suzanne Lee
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  • Newsstand owners buy in bulk from the newspaper distributors in the Mehar Chand market street early in the morning on 20th October 2008 in New Delhi, India. With internet still out of reach for 95% of the country and literacy higher than ever, more and more are turning to newspapers and magazines.  Photo : Suzanne Lee
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  • Overview of a river in the India-Bangladesh Border area, in Nadia district, Ranaghat, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. People and products like cows are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
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  • A security guard reads the morning newspaper while on duty outside a grocery store in the Defence Colony market early in the morning on 20th October 2008 in New Delhi, India. With internet still out of reach for 95% of the country and literacy higher than ever, more and more are turning to newspapers and magazines.  Photo : Suzanne Lee
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  • A newspaper seller sorts out newspapers on the main road of Nizamuddin early in the morning on 20th October 2008 in New Delhi, India. With internet still out of reach for 95% of the country and literacy higher than ever, more and more are turning to newspapers and magazines.  Photo : Suzanne Lee
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  • Overview of a river in the India-Bangladesh Border area, in Nadia district, Ranaghat, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. People and products like cows are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
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  • Taxi drivers read various local newspapers as they wait for business in the taxi station at the Defence Colony market early in the morning on 20th October 2008 in New Delhi, India. With internet still out of reach for 95% of the country and literacy higher than ever, more and more are turning to newspapers and magazines.  Photo : Suzanne Lee
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  • Men load large cows onto a truck at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • A child stands by the window of a brothel on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India...Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Brahmin priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Mr. Pathak walks around searching door to door for his daughter on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India..Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Hindu priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Two prostitutes peer out of a brothel window to beckon customers on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India...Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Hindu priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • A man leaves a brothel on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India...Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Hindu priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Mr. Pathak looks through rooms in a brothel as he goes from brothel to brothel with policemen in search of his daughter on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India..Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Hindu priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Mr. Pathak goes from brothel to brothel in search of his daughter on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India..Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Hindu priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Mr. Pathak goes door to door with policemen in search of his daughter on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India..Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Hindu priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • A drunk man stumbles down the dark stairway of a brothel on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India...Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Hindu priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Prostitutes and a pimp sit around in front of their cublcles in their brothel on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India...Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Hindu priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Prostitutes stand around in front of their cubicles in their brothel on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India...Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Hindu priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Mr. Pathak speaks to a prostitute as he goes from brothel to brothel with policemen in search of his daughter on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India..Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Hindu priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Mr. Pathak cradles a photograph of his daughter on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India..Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Hindu priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Mr. Pathak speaks to a policeman about his daughter on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India..Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Hindu priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Mr Pathak climbs the stairs to a brothel as he goes from one to another brothel with policemen in search of his daughter on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India...Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Hindu priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Mr. Pathak looks through rooms in a brothel as he goes from brothel to brothel with policemen in search of his daughter on 28th September 2010, on GB Road, Delhi's red light district, India..Mr. Kailash Pathak, a Hindu priest, has travelled to Delhi from his village in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, to look for his missing daughter, Khushbu Pathak aged 13, who was last seen in the custody of his neighbours in February this year and believed to have been sold to brothels in the capital, Delhi. The accused neighbours have since been arrested in Delhi but the girl is yet to be found. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Robyn and Jason re-enact their daily activities while in small town Anand, India, for 2 weeks for the IVF treatment. Robyn Wright,38 (Left) and Jason Wright,44 (Right) is an American couple from Wyoming, USA, who are new surrogacy clients of the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in Anand, Gujarat. India...- Robyn works as a nail tech. in Wilson, a town with reportedly among the highest per capita incomes in the US. .- Robyn's monthly income ranges between $ 3,000-5,000. Jason works as a guide in national parks and earns about $ 150 per day. .- They've been saving up for three years to be able to afford the surrogacy in India, which will cost them about $ 25,000 (not including travel costs).- Robyn has a 14-year-old daughter from her first marriage but had to have a partial hysterectomy a month after delivery due to a medical complication. ..Quotes.."To get us back here [to try again for surrogacy in India in case it doesn't work out this time], I would have to work everyday in the summer. I'll start selling my possessions, if I have to." - Jason."I definitely relate with the surrogates to the extent that everybody has to sell their soul to earn money." - Jason."A girl-friend offered to be a surrogate but that would have been harder. It would have led to complex emotions." - Robyn.., where some surrogate mothers stay, in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their environmentally controlled surrogate houses. .Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Robyn Wright,38 (Left) and Jason Wright,44 (Right) is an American couple from Wyoming, USA, who are new surrogacy clients of the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in Anand, Gujarat. India...- Robyn works as a nail tech. in Wilson, a town with reportedly among the highest per capita incomes in the US. .- Robyn's monthly income ranges between $ 3,000-5,000. Jason works as a guide in national parks and earns about $ 150 per day. .- They've been saving up for three years to be able to afford the surrogacy in India, which will cost them about $ 25,000 (not including travel costs).- Robyn has a 14-year-old daughter from her first marriage but had to have a partial hysterectomy a month after delivery due to a medical complication. ..Quotes.."To get us back here [to try again for surrogacy in India in case it doesn't work out this time], I would have to work everyday in the summer. I'll start selling my possessions, if I have to." - Jason."I definitely relate with the surrogates to the extent that everybody has to sell their soul to earn money." - Jason."A girl-friend offered to be a surrogate but that would have been harder. It would have led to complex emotions." - Robyn.., where some surrogate mothers stay, in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their environmentally controlled surrogate houses. .Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Technoserve Market Linkage Manager Rajiv Shinde (in dark blue t-shirt) supervises as Jeevika Field Associate Raju Kumar (in pink shirt) keeps purchasing records and issues receipts to producer group farmers selling vegetables to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with women vegetable farmers in Muzaffarpur, providing technical support in forward linkage, streamlining their business models and linking them directly to an international market through Electronic Trading Platforms. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Technoserve Market Linkage Manager Rajiv Shinde (in dark blue t-shirt) supervises as Jeevika Field Associate Raju Kumar (in pink shirt) keeps purchasing records and issues receipts to producer group farmers selling vegetables to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with women vegetable farmers in Muzaffarpur, providing technical support in forward linkage, streamlining their business models and linking them directly to an international market through Electronic Trading Platforms. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Producer group farmers leave after selling their harvests in the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with women vegetable farmers in Muzaffarpur, providing technical support in forward linkage, streamlining their business models and linking them directly to an international market through Electronic Trading Platforms. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Producer group farmers leave after selling their harvests in the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with women vegetable farmers in Muzaffarpur, providing technical support in forward linkage, streamlining their business models and linking them directly to an international market through Electronic Trading Platforms. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • A producer group farmer signs a receipt after selling vegetables to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with women vegetable farmers in Muzaffarpur, providing technical support in forward linkage, streamlining their business models and linking them directly to an international market through Electronic Trading Platforms. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Jeevika Field Associate Raju Kumar (in pink shirt) issues receipts to producer group farmers selling vegetables to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with women vegetable farmers in Muzaffarpur, providing technical support in forward linkage, streamlining their business models and linking them directly to an international market through Electronic Trading Platforms. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Jeevika Field Associate Raju Kumar (in pink shirt) keeps records and issues receipts to producer group farmers selling vegetables to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with women vegetable farmers in Muzaffarpur, providing technical support in forward linkage, streamlining their business models and linking them directly to an international market through Electronic Trading Platforms. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Technoserve Market Linkage Manager Rajiv Shinde (in dark blue t-shirt) supervises as Jeevika Field Associate Raju Kumar (in pink shirt) keeps purchasing records and issues receipts to producer group farmers selling vegetables to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with women vegetable farmers in Muzaffarpur, providing technical support in forward linkage, streamlining their business models and linking them directly to an international market through Electronic Trading Platforms. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Technoserve Market Linkage Manager Rajiv Shinde (in dark blue t-shirt) supervises as Jeevika Field Associate Raju Kumar (in pink shirt) keeps purchasing records and issues receipts to producer group farmers selling vegetables to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with women vegetable farmers in Muzaffarpur, providing technical support in forward linkage, streamlining their business models and linking them directly to an international market through Electronic Trading Platforms. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Jeevika Field Associate Raju Kumar (in pink shirt) keeps records and issues receipts to producer group farmers selling vegetables to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with women vegetable farmers in Muzaffarpur, providing technical support in forward linkage, streamlining their business models and linking them directly to an international market through Electronic Trading Platforms. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Photographs of Shardaben's pregnancy (right) and 2nd surrogacy baby are displayed atop the television set in her living room...Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their
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  • Technoserve Market Linkage Manager Rajiv Shinde (in dark blue t-shirt) supervises as Jeevika Field Associate Raju Kumar (in pink shirt) keeps purchasing records and issues receipts to producer group farmers selling vegetables to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with women vegetable farmers in Muzaffarpur, providing technical support in forward linkage, streamlining their business models and linking them directly to an international market through Electronic Trading Platforms. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Technoserve Market Linkage Manager Rajiv Shinde (in dark blue t-shirt) supervises as Jeevika Field Associate Raju Kumar (in pink shirt) keeps purchasing records and issues receipts to producer group farmers selling vegetables to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with women vegetable farmers in Muzaffarpur, providing technical support in forward linkage, streamlining their business models and linking them directly to an international market through Electronic Trading Platforms. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • A producer group farmer signs a receipt after selling vegetables to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with women vegetable farmers in Muzaffarpur, providing technical support in forward linkage, streamlining their business models and linking them directly to an international market through Electronic Trading Platforms. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Jeevika Field Associate Raju Kumar (in pink shirt) keeps records and issues receipts to producer group farmers selling vegetables to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with women vegetable farmers in Muzaffarpur, providing technical support in forward linkage, streamlining their business models and linking them directly to an international market through Electronic Trading Platforms. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Shardaben walks along the trench in the agricultural land that she leased for 5 years with the money she got from surrogacy...Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their
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  • Shardaben holds up a photograph of her first surrogacy job..Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their environmentally controlled surrogate houses. .Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Shardaben holds a photo album of her 7th month of pregnancy during the surrogacy. The Godbharai, which literally means "filling the lap", is a tradition of providing the mother with gifts etc. and dolling her up in finery. Dr. Patel said that many of these women don't experience such a nice godbharai and that they do this for the surrogates in their 7th month of pregnancy. . .Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).-Kantibhai was already a sperm donor at Dr. Patel's clinic when they came to know about surrogacy and its benefits from Dr. Patel and Shardaben went in for her first surrogacy in early late 2006, early 2007..- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the
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  • Shardaben holds photographs of her surrogacy jobs...Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their environmentally controlled surrogate houses. .Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Photographs of Shardaben's pregnancy (right) and 2nd surrogacy baby are displayed atop the television set in her living room...Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their
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  • Shardaben's eldest daughter, Lakshmi (18) walks out of a room. 200,000 rupees out of the money Shardaben earned from surrogacy will soon be given to Lakshmi's husband-to-be as her dowry. ..Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and cu
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  • Shardaben's eldest daughter, Lakshmi (18, in pink) carries a younger relative as Shardaben looks on. 200,000 rupees out of the money Shardaben earned from surrogacy will soon be given to Lakshmi's husband-to-be as her dowry. ..Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internatio
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  • Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their environmentally controlled surrogate houses. .Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • UK celebrity Myleene Klass interviews Rose Marie Ferrer, 33, in Rose's shop, selling funeral items, in an inhabited cemetery where she lives with her large family in Paranaque City, Metro Manila, The Philippines on 18 January 2013. She supports her family with income from this shop, has breastfed all her 5 children, and is 9 months pregnant now. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save the Children UK
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  • Nita, an ex-surrogate, has continued to work with Dr. Patel's Akanksha clinic by selling her breast milk to other surrogacy clients, and as a nanny for new-born test tube babies, like these twins in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Apara Nursing Home, where babies from the Akanksha clnic are often sent for neonatal and other post-birth intensive care, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Shardaben and Kantibhai walk toward their house in Vagpura village,  Anand, Gujarat. ..Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).-Kantibhai was already a sperm donor at Dr. Patel's clinic when they came to know about surrogacy and its benefits from Dr. Patel and Shardaben went in for her first surrogacy in early late 2006, early 2007..- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibh
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  • Shardaben poses with her buffaloes that she bought with the money she earned from surrogacy...Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their environmentally controlled surro
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  • Shardaben walks around the back of her house where she used the surrogacy money to build two toilets...Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their environmentally control
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  • Meena, from Rohtak town, selling Jamun fruits on the Himsagar Express 6318 on 7th July 2009.. .6318 / Himsagar Express, India's longest single train journey, spanning 3720 kms, going from the mountains (Hima) to the seas (Sagar), from Jammu and Kashmir state of the Indian Himalayas to Kanyakumari, which is the southern most tip of India...Photo by Suzanne Lee / for The National
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  • Nita, an ex-surrogate, has continued to work with Dr. Patel's Akanksha clinic by selling her breast milk to other surrogacy clients, and as a nanny for new-born test tube babies, like these twins in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Apara Nursing Home, where babies from the Akanksha clnic are often sent for neonatal and other post-birth intensive care, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A widow, Rubi Begum, 40, walks through fields as she goes from door to door to sell her products in Ghagoa Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. Living alone after her husband's passing, she has now (since 2.5 years) found financial independence by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (in turquoise & blue), arrives to sell her products in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Shahida Begum, 35, sells her products in her village, Palashbari Villlage, Taragonj, Rangpur, Bangladesh on 18th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to the family income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (in turquoise & blue), sells her products in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (in turquoise & blue), sells her products in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • A widow, Rubi Begum, 40 (sitting in center), sells her products in Ghagoa Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. Living alone after her husband's passing, she has now (since 2.5 years) found financial independence by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • (L-R) Mohd. Shahin Alom (13, son), Mahfuza Akhter (5, daughter), Shahida Begum (35), Shakil Alom (7, son), Mohd. Abu Taleb (41, husband). .Shahida Begum, 35, poses for a family portrait in her home in Palashbari Villlage, Taragonj, Rangpur, Bangladesh on 18th September 2011. She contributes to the family income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • As her daughter Mahfuza Akhter (5) looks on, Shahida Begum, 35, looks into her product bag in her hut's compound in Palashbari Villlage, Taragonj, Rangpur, Bangladesh on 18th September 2011, after a regular day of work as a saleswoman earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • As her daughter, Mahfuza akhter (5) looks on, Shahida Begum, 35, goes about her daily household chores in her hut in Palashbari Villlage, Taragonj, Rangpur, Bangladesh on 18th September 2011, after a regular day of work as a saleswoman earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
    Suzanne20100310-Jharia-Coal-0827.jpg
  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • River fishermen sell freshly caught fish just outside the meeting hut of a Children's Group in Bhashantek Basti (Slum) in Zon H, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 23rd September 2011. The Bhashantek Basti Children's Group is run by children for children with the facilitation of PLAN Bangladesh and other partner NGOs. Slum children from ages 8 to 17 run the group within their own communities to protect vulnerable children from child related issues such as child marriage. About 20150 people live in the Bhashantek urban slum, with an average household size of 5 in housing sizes of 8 x 9ft made of bamboo, tin sheets and scrap materials. The average annual income is USD 200. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (in turquoise & blue), keeps a record of her list of credit sales as she sells her products in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (3rd from right, in turquoise & blue), sells her products in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (in turquoise & blue), sells her products in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (3rd from right, in turquoise & blue), sells her products in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (right, in turquoise & blue), sells her products in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (in turquoise & blue), sells her products in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • A widow, Rubi Begum, 40 (sitting in center), sells her products in Ghagoa Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. Living alone after her husband's passing, she has now (since 2.5 years) found financial independence by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
    Suzanne20110919-Guardian-Care-1048.JPG
  • A widow, Rubi Begum, 40 (sitting in center), sells her products in Ghagoa Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. Living alone after her husband's passing, she has now (since 2.5 years) found financial independence by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • A widow, Rubi Begum, 40, sells her products in Ghagoa Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. Living alone after her husband's passing, she has now (since 2.5 years) found financial independence by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • A customer looks at sachets of shampoo as Rubi Begum, 40, (unseen) sells her products in Ghagoa Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. Living alone after her husband's passing, she has now (since 2.5 years) found financial independence by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • A widow, Rubi Begum, 40, sells her products in Ghagoa Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. Living alone after her husband's passing, she has now (since 2.5 years) found financial independence by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Shahida Begum, 35, cooks dinner in her home in Palashbari Villlage, Taragonj, Rangpur, Bangladesh on 18th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to the family income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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