Kamalawathi and her family live in a temporary house with a tin roof and no toilet.
When they need to go, they head to the forest next to their home. They’ve been living this way for a long time.
She’s forty-two. Her two older sons are grown and have their own families now.
But her youngest is eight years old and in grade three. He’s going to school, he’s learning, and he comes home every afternoon to a tin-roofed shelter that gets too hot to bear during the day.
Her husband fishes and does carpentry work. Kamalawathi goes out to sell turmeric, and on the days when that’s not enough, she asks people for help. Between the two of them, they keep the family going, somehow.
Building proper house for Kamalawathi means her youngest son has a comfortable place to come home to while he’s growing up. Somewhere cool enough to do his homework. Somewhere that doesn’t turn into a furnace in the afternoon heat.
And with your help, we can make it happen.