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Rain pelts the window of the ambulance, tired windshield wipers creak and groan, frantically sweeping across the foggy window. I reach across and hurriedly roll down my window and "fresh", damp night air rushes in the small opening.  Ashley sits beside me ho...

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Boomi's tiny fingers grasp the rusted metal edge of her tin doorway.  Just outside, a dog lazing on the pipeline growls but doesn't move.  With great effort, she climbs out  and drags her bare bottom along the broken concrete and  adjusts herself into a sitt...

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Sidestepping Haadrik, I (Kane) grabbed the man by the back of the neck and pushed him forcefully away from the two women. One woman clutches her yellow sari, dabbing at her bleeding nose while the other disappears in a flash of blue fabric only to reappear s...

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The clack of my flip flops echo off the dimly lit stairway as I take two steps at a time. I rush past an altar and the flames from the candles flicker casting an eery shadow of myself on the pale hospital walls. It's 11 pm and the hospital is nearly deserted...

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I'm sitting by the window in my apartment watching a hawk glide by, listening to the call to prayer from a nearby mosque. I don't know what is being said, but I find it soothing. The sky is a faded purple and Mumbai'...

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Sweat drips off my forehead. I squint to block the sun and watch Ashley climb the cement stairs to Maya's home. Water leaks from a broken pipe near her door and creates a dirty pool under the bridge. It is one o'clock in the afternoon and her door is closed....

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A young woman sits on her haunches swinging a flat wooden stick. With a whoosh of water and a wet thud the stick hits the balled up piece of wet clothing. She repeats this process over and over, using her left hand to deftly manoeuver the wet clothing into a...

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Over the last 6 weeks, I've been working closely with Ashley Pereia of Janvi Charitable Trust who is responsible for the amazing work being done by Janvi in the Saki Naka slum area. I have witnessed a humble man, possessed by his work, working from sunrise t...