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Flex Mentallo

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    Most of Roshni's beneficiaries are ultra poor - earning less than 15 rupees per head per day. (This is less than 30 cents.) They include150 adolescents, 50 younger children and 40 mothers.
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    Roshni's core activities currently include: - Right Based work on domestic violence with women - Computer Training to young people - Teaching spoken English to young people - Awareness raising of young children on the early indicators of planned abuse - Life training to mothers and children - Raising awareness on community health & sanitation
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    This is Kshama, a Roshni peer leader. She lives in a single room shared with eight other people comprising two families. She goes to college at 7 a.m. every day except Sunday, and when she returns home, she sets out to work with the children of Rajabazaar. She is 20 years of age.
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    'Roshni' is the Bengali word for Light.
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    After three generations, Paddyfield School had lost the vitality and genuine sense of mission I remembered from my early visits in the 1980's. Now, standing in Rajabazaar, I breathed that pioneering spirit again.
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    Together they tackle domestic violence; illiteracy, poor health among mothers and adolescent girls; substance abuse by early adolescents and youths; and child trafficking.
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    The group consists of 16 courageous young people, most of whom are women.
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    With a small amount of financial support funneled through Prantakatha, Shahina founded Roshni.
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    Here, in this heart of darkness, Shahina Javed grew up.
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    This woman lives with her husband and two children in a space not much larger than a cupboard. I am about 6 feet tall, and would neither have been able to stand nor lie in it.
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    Yet in this tiny space I am surrounded by 15 families.
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    I am standing in a courtyard so small that I can almost touch the sides if I stretch out my arms.
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