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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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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 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 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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  • Shanti Adivasi (in yellow saree), 52, interviews a group of tribal women, as they take a break from their work carrying gathered firewood from the jungles to be sold in the towns, 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 group of tribal women, as they take a break from their work carrying gathered firewood from the jungles to be sold in the towns, 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 group of tribal women, as they take a break from their work carrying gathered firewood from the jungles to be sold in the towns, 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 group of tribal women, as they take a break from their work carrying gathered firewood from the jungles to be sold in the towns, 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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  • Collection centre owner Ganesh Kumar Singh (in white shirt), 30, weighs and sorts out vegetables that other producer group farmers bring in to be sold to his collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Ganesh and his wife, Asha Devi, a producer group member, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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 Jagganath Prasad (centre), reports after returning from the local markets with a top up of vegetables that is needed by the collection centre to be sold to their buyers in 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Tamsin Greig, an actress from the United Kingdom, speaks with Jasmine (name changed), aged 30, about her past experiences as they sit in Nirmal Bhavan, a rehabilitation home for trafficked and rescued girls run by Tearfund partner NGO Oasis India, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on 20 February 2014. Jasmine was ten when she was sold for 50,000 Indian Rupees by her family friends who were supposed to look after her. She was beaten, drugged and forced in to prostitution. Rescued from a brothel age 16, she came to live at Nirmal Bhavan and now works for Oasis. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Tearfund
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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
  • Jeevika Field Associate Jagganath Prasad arrives from the local markets with a top up of vegetables that is needed by the collection centre to be sold to their buyers in 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 Jagganath Prasad arrives from the local markets with a top up of vegetables that is needed by the collection centre to be sold to their buyers in 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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 carries a bag of okra that she has harvested to be sold 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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  • Collection centre owner Ganesh Kumar Singh (in white shirt), 30, weighs and sorts out vegetables that other producer group farmers bring in to be sold to his collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Ganesh and his wife, Asha Devi, a producer group member, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owners and farmers Asha Devi, 23, and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, sort through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. They rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Tamsin Greig, an actress from the United Kingdom, speaks with Jasmine (name changed), aged 30, about her past experiences as they sit in Nirmal Bhavan, a rehabilitation home for trafficked and rescued girls run by Tearfund partner NGO Oasis India, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on 20 February 2014. Jasmine was ten when she was sold for 50,000 Indian Rupees by her family friends who were supposed to look after her. She was beaten, drugged and forced in to prostitution. Rescued from a brothel age 16, she came to live at Nirmal Bhavan and now works for Oasis. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Tearfund
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  • Tamsin Greig, an actress from the United Kingdom, speaks with Jasmine (name changed), aged 30, about her past experiences as they sit in Nirmal Bhavan, a rehabilitation home for trafficked and rescued girls run by Tearfund partner NGO Oasis India, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on 20 February 2014. Jasmine was ten when she was sold for 50,000 Indian Rupees by her family friends who were supposed to look after her. She was beaten, drugged and forced in to prostitution. Rescued from a brothel age 16, she came to live at Nirmal Bhavan and now works for Oasis. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Tearfund
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  • Tamsin Greig, an actress from the United Kingdom, speaks with Jasmine (name changed), aged 30, about her past experiences as they sit in Nirmal Bhavan, a rehabilitation home for trafficked and rescued girls run by Tearfund partner NGO Oasis India, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on 20 February 2014. Jasmine was ten when she was sold for 50,000 Indian Rupees by her family friends who were supposed to look after her. She was beaten, drugged and forced in to prostitution. Rescued from a brothel age 16, she came to live at Nirmal Bhavan and now works for Oasis. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Tearfund
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  • Tamsin Greig, an actress from the United Kingdom, speaks with Jasmine (name changed), aged 30, about her past experiences as they sit in Nirmal Bhavan, a rehabilitation home for trafficked and rescued girls run by Tearfund partner NGO Oasis India, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on 20 February 2014. Jasmine was ten when she was sold for 50,000 Indian Rupees by her family friends who were supposed to look after her. She was beaten, drugged and forced in to prostitution. Rescued from a brothel age 16, she came to live at Nirmal Bhavan and now works for Oasis. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Tearfund
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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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  • 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)
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  • A boy continually rakes through his pile of burning coke coal in the open-pit coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. After burning the coal for 4 hours, it is cooled and is ready to be packed and sold to illegal middlemen.
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  • Jeevika Field Associate Jagganath Prasad (grey pants), coordinates with the local markets to purchase a top up of vegetables that is needed by the collection centre to be sold to their buyers in 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 Jagganath Prasad (grey pants), coordinates with the local markets to purchase a top up of vegetables that is needed by the collection centre to be sold to their buyers in 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's Market Linkage Manager, Rajiv Shinde, looks on as collection centre owner Ganesh Kumar Singh (in white shirt), 30, weighs and sorts out vegetables that other producer group farmers bring in to be sold to his collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Ganesh and his wife, Asha Devi, a producer group member, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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's Market Linkage Manager, Rajiv Shinde, looks on as collection centre owner Ganesh Kumar Singh (in white shirt), 30, weighs and sorts out vegetables that other producer group farmers bring in to be sold to his collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Ganesh and his wife, Asha Devi, a producer group member, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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 Jagganath Prasad (grey pants), coordinates with the local markets to purchase a top up of vegetables that is needed by the collection centre to be sold to their buyers in 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 carries a bag of okra that she has harvested to be sold 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 carries a bag of okra that she has harvested to be sold 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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  • Technoserve Market Linkage Manager, Rajiv Shinde, helps out as collection centre owners Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, and his wife Asha Devi, 25, grade vegetables that other producer group farmers bring in to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Ganesh and his wife, Asha Devi, a producer group member, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owners and farmers Asha Devi, 23, and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, sort through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. They rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owners and farmers Asha Devi, 23, and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, sort through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. They rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owners and farmers Asha Devi, 23, and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, sort through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. They rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owners and farmers Asha Devi, 23, and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, sort through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. They rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • 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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  • Shanti Adivasi (in green saree), 52, looks at a chart on the wall of the Khabar Lahariya district office in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th 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 a family of tribal villagers in their housing compound 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, 52, works without electricity on her interview notes while her granchildren play around her on a row of beds she shares with her 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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  • Jasmine (name changed), aged 30, looks at uplifting notes on a corkboard in Nirmal Bhavan, a rehabilitation home for trafficked and rescued girls run by Tearfund partner NGO Oasis India, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on 20 February 2014. Jasmine was ten when she was sold for 50,000 Indian Rupees by her family friends who were supposed to look after her. She was beaten, drugged and forced in to prostitution. Rescued from a brothel age 16, she came to live at Nirmal Bhavan and now works for Oasis. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Tearfund
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  • Tamsin Greig, an actress from the United Kingdom, speaks with Jasmine (name changed), aged 30, about her past experiences as they sit in Nirmal Bhavan, a rehabilitation home for trafficked and rescued girls run by Tearfund partner NGO Oasis India, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on 20 February 2014. Jasmine was ten when she was sold for 50,000 Indian Rupees by her family friends who were supposed to look after her. She was beaten, drugged and forced in to prostitution. Rescued from a brothel age 16, she came to live at Nirmal Bhavan and now works for Oasis. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Tearfund
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  • Tamsin Greig, an actress from the United Kingdom, speaks with Jasmine (name changed), aged 30, about her past experiences as they sit in Nirmal Bhavan, a rehabilitation home for trafficked and rescued girls run by Tearfund partner NGO Oasis India, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on 20 February 2014. Jasmine was ten when she was sold for 50,000 Indian Rupees by her family friends who were supposed to look after her. She was beaten, drugged and forced in to prostitution. Rescued from a brothel age 16, she came to live at Nirmal Bhavan and now works for Oasis. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Tearfund
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  • Tamsin Greig, an actress from the United Kingdom, speaks with Jasmine (name changed), aged 30, about her past experiences as they sit in Nirmal Bhavan, a rehabilitation home for trafficked and rescued girls run by Tearfund partner NGO Oasis India, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on 20 February 2014. Jasmine was ten when she was sold for 50,000 Indian Rupees by her family friends who were supposed to look after her. She was beaten, drugged and forced in to prostitution. Rescued from a brothel age 16, she came to live at Nirmal Bhavan and now works for Oasis. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Tearfund
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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 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)
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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)
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  • Jeevika Field Associate Jagganath Prasad (grey pants), coordinates with the local markets to purchase a top up of vegetables that is needed by the collection centre to be sold to their buyers in 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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  • Collection centre owner Ganesh Kumar Singh (in white shirt), 30, weighs and sorts out vegetables that other producer group farmers bring in to be sold to his collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Ganesh and his wife, Asha Devi, a producer group member, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owners and farmers Asha Devi, 23, and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, sort through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. They rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • Collection centre owner and farmer Asha Devi (in red blouse), 23, sorts through vegetables brought in by other producer group farmers to be sold to the collection centre in Machahi village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India on October 27th, 2016. Asha Devi and her husband Ganesh Kumar Singh, 30, rent out a part of their house to be used as a collection centre for Producer Group farmers. 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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  • 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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  • 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, 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, 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 (in white saree), 52, interviews a family of tribal villagers in their housing compound 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, 52, a community journalist since 2002 at Khabar Lahariya newspaper poses for a portrait at a dried up river in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  She has played a pivotal role in campaigning for water to be supplied to arid villages in the desert-like hills of Manikpur. 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 on her interview notes while her granchildren play around her on a row of beds she shares with her 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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  • 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, takes photographs to illustrate her articles in future issues of Khabar Lahariya newspaper of the Banda (language) edition in a 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, 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, chats with villagers as she distributes this week's Khabar Lahariya newspaper 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, 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, distributes this week's Khabar Lahariya newspaper as one reader reads his copy at his tobacco stall 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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  • 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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