Empowering The Slums - Mahila Housing Trust

The Mahila Housing Trust's mission is to empower and organise women in slums across India to improve their habitat. Services such as clean water, toilets, electricity, plus light and ventilation can have a real effect on families and communities. Through its grassroots programs in habitat development, climate change resilience, and participatory governance, MHT empowers women to exercise their rights and improve living conditions for their families and neighbours. I volunteered to document three slums around Ahmedabad. Revealing an intimate glance at these resilient women and their communities, I was asked to show not only the poor living conditions these families deal with, but also the strong social fabric that binds them together that it so essential to MHT's work.