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Living with hunger
22/05/2008:
The enormity of human deprivation among the vulnerable and destitute in India is overwhelming. A newly published paper describes the experience of living with hunger as recounted by persons from intensely insecure social groups from eight villages in Orissa, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. The research study on hunger is written by Harsh Mander, convenor of Aman Biradari, a people’s campaign for secular democracy in India. The study is funded by DanChurchAid in India.
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Mikkel Østergaard
The paper "Living with Hunger" seeks to illustrate the experience of living with chronic hunger, including prolonged deprivation of sufficient food to lead a healthy and active life; recurring uncertainty about the availability of food; loss of dignity in securing food for bare subsistence through involuntary resort to foraging and begging, debt bondage and low end highly underpaid work; self denial; and sacrifice of other survival needs like medicine.
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Deprivation among the aged, single women and people with disability
The paper reflects the experiences as recounted by destitute persons from intensely food insecure social groups – specifically aged people without care givers, single women headed households, and adults with disability – in eight villages in Orissa, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh.
The research study was funded by DanChurchAid India. It owes a great deal to the steady faith, support and counsel extended by DanChurchAid Representative in India Nina Ilona Ellinger. Harsh Mander is convenor of Aman Biradari, a people’s campaign for secular democracy.
The article was published in Economic Political Weekly in April 2008
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