Why not start this blog with a wonderful
story, a great human adventure, filled with meetings, drama and joy, screams
and laughs, but mostly full of success. After 12 years of presence in the slums of Gandhi Nagar, this blog
would like to trace all the distance we have crossed with those
we are privileged to share our day-to-day life.
We also want this blog to be the living memory of our
organization, SPEED Trust, and of all its beneficiaries, we want this blog to
witness, day after day, this long story of hope and courage.
The blog, launched in
July 2011, will regularly go back and forth between the present and the past to better understand the evolution
of this community, this area, and
the great revolution that we see every day.
And very often, this blog will also be an opportunity for the "voiceless" to express
themselves. These "voiceless" are the marginalized from a country in rapid development, yet
a rich country of 400 million poor people, the ones nobody sees
because no one want to see them, this
mass of workers from
the shadows and odd jobs in the
informal economy, without which India could not have progressed, just a few decades ago, from the age of famines to the age of being a major world power.
These "voiceless" too aspire to have decent
living conditions, to receive quality
health care, to give the best education for their children, just like any other citizen. It is to support them in the process of achieving their aspirations that SPEED Trust was created.
This blog is the story of ordinary people at the bottom of a slum in southern India, who decided one day to take their future in their own hands.
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