Photo Feature: An Initiative in Rajasthan Is Transforming the Lives of Former Manual Scavengers
Nai Disha is an initiative that rehabilitates manual scavengers, especially women, and provides them with vocational training to find alternative livelihoods.
Rehabilitated manual scavenger, Usha Chaumar, 40, stands on the stairs of her newly built three storey house in Alwar, Rajasthan, India on 24 September 2016. Credit: Anindito Banerjee
She didn’t know what it was to stay clean. She never worshipped or touched any god. Health and hygiene were never a part of her life and for that matter, neither respect and dignity. But all this is now past for Usha Chaumar, a former manual scavenger, rescued and rehabilitated in Alwar, Rajasthan.
