Amari became a widow three years ago at just 37 years old. Her husband, Selvan, was attacked with witchcraft and became seriously ill. Amari and Selvan tried to get help from doctors…
After Dyumna’s husband passed away, she lost the ability to think clearly. She distanced herself from her three sons and their wives by wandering from village to village. Month after month, she…
Tanaya didn’t have much, but Gospel for Asia (GFA) pastor Niranjan and the film team visiting the area weren’t looking to make a profit when they offered to show her family a…
Oditi had seen her husband in the grips of demonic attacks and suffering from a serious illness that ultimately led to his death. Suddenly, she was a widow with young children to…
“Twenty-four years have passed since my son threw me in this old-age home. He has not yet come to see me.” —Chairavali Dahal, a South Asian widow On the outskirts of a…
Lopa could not get well. She couldn’t afford proper treatment for her ongoing infections and sicknesses, because she was a widow working as a day laborer. The longer she went without medical…
The new hut offered little more than four walls and a roof, but Naamagal was plenty grateful to have that for a night. At 56 years old, she had raised two children,…
At the end of her life, with her children grown and years of hard work to her credit, a South Asian widow rarely receives the love and respect usually reserved for elders.…
How would she care for her children? How would she provide for their needs? Would she be forced to beg? Or worse? As Taanusiya processed the news of her husband’s sudden death,…
The 65-year-old woman lay still in the small bed. Nabanipa had been confined there for three days and still no one had come. Sickness robbed her of strength, and the elderly widow…
