Sunday, December 18, 2011

A community effort to curb suicides in Mumbai

Kumbharwada, a hamlet of potters in Mumbai's Dharavi slums, suffered from a very high rate of suicides some three decades ago. Men, women, young boys and girls or even senior citizens would just walk to the nearby railway tracks and end their lives seemingly at the slightest provocation.
http://ummid.com/news/2011/December/19.12.2011/community_effort-to_curb_suicide.htm