Clad in a simple sari, Sister Jyoti Rosamma sits among the women in a self-help group discussing their issues. In a circle they are all equally important, including the 74-year-old nun, who taught them to fight abject poverty.
The frail-looking Catholic nun was “a stranger to us but now she’s like a mother goddess. Our eyes were opened and we were appalled to see our reality,” said Malti Devi, who escaped poverty because of the self-help groups.
Malti Devi, a 52-year-old woman, is among hundreds of socially and economically poor caste women the nun has helped free from the clutches of moneylenders in the Chhapra area of the eastern Indian Bihar State.
