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Monkey See, Monkey Do
Monkeys enjoy a dawn hop around the walls of Amber Fort near Jaipur, India.
With the help of a patient, left, nurse’s aides, right, mop up after "Bireeh” at the fistula center. The women are former fistula patients themselves. They work as nurse’s aides preparing patients for intimate surgery and cheerfully mopping up the unending puddles and trails of urine. Most are illiterate, but uniquely able to communicate with their fragile and frightened patients.
Women who make it to the fistula center are the lucky ones. No woman suffering from fistula is ever turned away.
Lost Daughters
Varsha Hitkari is helped to a drink of water by her parents. Her husband hung his wife from the showerhead after she gave birth to a second girl instead of the son he wanted. Her brother found her in time to save her life but she was in a coma for six weeks and has not been the same since. Her second daughter Pari, 18 months wears a shirt that says "boy" and drinks from her bottle at their home in Kanpur, India. Her father Ramesh Chandra cannot afford the 200.000 rupees (about $4500 dollars) needed for the kind of physical therapy she will need to recover. Local police have not caught the culprits.
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