We visited this 48-year-old migrant man, Ubale Baburoa, who lived in a one-room shack in a Pune slum with his wife and four children. Baburoa fell on a construction job and broke his spine. At the hospital, he learned that he also was infected with HIV. Baburoa was confined to this bed when outreach workers from the John Paul Slum Development project found him. They brought him medicine for his tuberculosis, talcum powder for his back, and food for his family. Three months ago, he left his bed for the first time in more than a year, he said. "You're running a good organization, helping the poor and people like me," Baburoa told George Swamy, head of the program. "Before, we were in a total dilemma. We didn't have anything to eat. We'd be like beggars if you didn't come." |
