After doing intensive training as a Yoga teacher in India in 1991 I travelled to Calcutta. I was so appalled at the conditions of families living on the pavements there that I volunteered to help in one of Calcutta Rescue's Street clinics. Under a scorching sun, families would queue from early morning to get a place under the makeshift awning that we called a clinic. Indian and British doctors offered free medical care,  medication and baby food to families who literally lived by the side of roads, under flyovers or in sewers. Some made their beds on railway tracks at night after the last train had left Howrah station. These images and the dignity of the mothers in particular has never left me. Please help to raise money which goes directly, with no administrative costs, to this small charity which does amazing work. 

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