Articles by Poonam Nalawade

I work with the youth and children of Behrampada, Bandra and Ambujwadi, Malvani as a Psychosocial Counsellor with the non-profit Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA).  The two communities I work in are distinct in their own ways. Both communities comprise of the urban poor. While in Malvani people from different religious backgrounds live together, in Behrampada it is primarily the Muslim community. People from both communities largely work in the informal sector; in Behrampada many run small-scale businesses.  In Behrampada, they don’t give much importance to  education, rather work is given a priority. Hence the number of school…