As one of the tribal communities residing in the heartland of West Bengal, Mahali tribes traditionally meet the demands of their sustenance mainly by making and selling items made of bamboo like baskets. Thus they try to eradicate poverty and hunger.
Basket Makers 2
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With a pet in her arms, a girl from a poverty-hit area is smiling.
Smile
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They are enjoying their family life although they lead a hard life.
Happy Family
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A rural grandmother is telling a story to the next generation.
Grandmother's Story
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A little girl aged between 8 and 10 in the village is carrying a bucket full of water on her head and keeping this routine everyday by walking almost 3km.
Hard Life for Village Girl
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This man grows and sells flowers in a small village outside Colombo.
Flower Seller
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An old woman in her fifties, is pushing her bicycle loaded with groceries for her little grocery shop，under the hottest sun at noon.
An Old Grocery Owner
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Photo shows a Narga family living in a small hut in Lahei, in Chin State in Myanmar. There is no living room, nor bed room or kitchen room. They live, eat and sleep only at one place, near the fire which is usually the centre of the hut.
A Narga Family in Lahei Village
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During Narga Festival, some children seated on the ground with their parents were helping their families selling something, such as snacks, drinks and local made toddy beer.
Narga Children at Work
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Children are playing in the small village of Bidya.
Children Playing
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A Muslim devotee is giving alms to the poor.
Need
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A man is selling toys between two trains during Taungpyone Pagoda Festival on the way to Mandalay. It was really dangerous for anybody to do so as the trains are coming in and going out all the time.
Selling Toys Between Two Trains
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Children are playing in a village which is 150km from Kolkata in one of small islands of Sundarbon. Farming and fishing is the occupation of the villagers. There were no electrifications in this island earlier, but recent years every family is using a solar panel and dish antenna by the help of the government.
Switching the Energy
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One morning after raining during Taungpyone Pagoda Festival,a young girl is selling some paper hats beside the muddy street in the Taungpyonegyi Village. She just counted the money in her hand. It could not be very much.
Selling Paper Hats
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Some people are selling their edible things on the ground of Madaya township during Taungpyone Pagoda Festival. They cannot afford to buy any place or shop to sell their goods.
Selling Edible Things
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Village people are working in project of digging pond, a hundred days work, which is organized by the Gram Panchyat (Village Head). This project helps villagers from water scarcity in summer and also helps people to earn money.
Women at Work
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A fisherman takes a break from work and looks at the others casting their fishing nets and waiting patiently for the catch. The daze in his eyes speaks a thousand words about their daily hardships.
Hope
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Photo shows the reflection of the highway halogens on the rippling water. The fisherman with his 'dingi-nouka' (canoe) sits still waiting patiently for his catch with his shadow as his company.
Night Shift
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More than a thousand indigenous fishermen and women make their living out of collecting fish at the River Mayurakshi with their own hand-made traditional fishing nets and bamboo fish-baskets. Sometimes their entire day's effort at work is worth just as little as Rs. 30-40 (even less than a dollar).
Fishermen of Birbhum
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Salima with her five kids, husband, brother in law and father-mother in law lives in a small room in Korail Slum. She works alongside with his husband to support her family. A big family like this always has big scarcity of food and children suffer from malnutrition.
Life in Slum
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