When law fails, listening helps

When law fails, listening helps
A group of elderly women turn to each other as they await benefits promised by senior citizens law
Elderly women from Younisabad meet every two months since 2019 to discuss implementation of the Sindh Senior Citizens Welfare Act, 2014 that still remains pending. PHOTO: Sameer Mandhro
KARACHI:
It had been around two months when the women, at least 16 in number, had last met. From a distance, it was difficult to distinguish one from the other - their postures had slight bents, their skin full of wrinkles, and their voices shook with emotion if not frailness. Yet, all of them had the same story to tell - but with slight variations - of another struggle, another misery, another affliction and another misfortune, all of them now spiraling in the face of a raging pandemic.

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