Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India -- We just finished three weeks of interviews with formerly landless women who acquired land through a government-subsidized land purchase program. As a result, they have increased income, food, social status, and respect from their husbands, including fewer beatings. They are moving out of huts, building houses, and able to get credit. The women also shared that because of the land, they no longer plan to marry off their daughters at 15 years. Instead, they will let them stay in school until they are at least 17.
May 30, 2009
Women and Land
May 25, 2009
Namaste
Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India -- As we were about to leave her village, this widow came out to bid us farewell.
May 20, 2009
Too Old?
Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India -- This tribal woman is too old to qualify for the governmental subsidy for landless women to purchase a small plot of land. She looked on as we interviewed those women that did qualify.
May 19, 2009
Land Pattas
Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India -- These formerly landless women now proudly hold up their land pattas, or titles, showing that each of them now owns a small parcel of land.
May 3, 2009
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