On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 1:24 PM Vikalp Womens Group wrote:
In 2012 a LBT couple who had eloped in August and who had to be provided shelter in the organization’s various shelter/offices, because of the pursuit of the parents and the police, they were supported to settle in a town near Ahmedabad. In the process the couple lost out on a good job, had to move away from their own house, away from a familiar city to a low paying job. Now after a little over a year, they wanted to come back. The organization helped them return in October, sheltering them for a fortnight in the organization ensuring their safety and relocating them in the city of their origin- Baroda. However returning to the house owned by them was impossible. The risk of being attacked existed even now. A rented accommodation had to be found where some community people lived, in case of an emergency, support could be gathered: Besides the rent had to be below the market prices. Negotiating all these variables Vikalp resettled them in their own city, in a reasonably rented house