Just a few samples from the pictures I took when we went to document BreakThrough's performance at a garment factory where the workplace intervention program, Namagaagi Naave is being implemented.
These are portraits of members of the Core Team at the factory, workers and management representatives. They had some amazing stories about how the program has changed the lives of workers and where they see it going in the future. The woman in the last portrait is a worker at the factory who told a personal story of how the skills she learned from the workshops and training applied to her life. She is three months pregnant with her first child and lives in her husband's family home. Her mother in law had put an extreme amount of pressure on her to find out the sex of the baby and told her that an abortion was expected of her if her first born wasn't male. She told us how she used the communication skills she learned from the program and talked to her husband, convincing him that regardless of gender, their first born needed to be protected and loved. He then talked to his mother and the young woman told us that she hasn't been harassed since. Of course, this whole story was understood only through a brief translation given to us by one of the program's coordinators, but with without all the details, it sounds like it's at least making some difference.
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