Gopi Devi – I can lead a life of dignity
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Gopi Devi – I can lead a life of dignity
The story of Gopi Devi etches out clearly the challenges that disabled personsface.In this case a disabled person is a woman, who experienced four-fold barriers of gender, disability, poverty,and last but not the least low educational attainment and skill. In the context of the pandemic, these challenges became even more life threatening. However,it is at this stage that the Water for Women Project played a very important role. Not only did Gopi get the unflinching support of the Community Management Committee (CMC) and the project team but also a platform to speak up and reach out to and sensitise many key stakeholders and leverage the much-needed opportunity to ensure that the WASH system commits itself to disability inclusion in ways that has never happened before. It is in this context that this case study based on Gopi’s testimony assumes significance.