on HIV awareness,care and support for military families.  A sewing skills program which gave HIV affected military wives a means of support when they returned to their village homes, has recently been implemented in a large Delhi slum whose residents are at high risk for drug abuse, STD’s and HIV/AIDS.  The sewing skills project will not only provide a trade for women living in the slum, but will also create opportunities to empower them through HIV/AIDS education and prevention.  

It is within this context that I had the opportunity to visit and to record the faces and activities of a huge slum community.  Relatively isolated from the mainstream by stigmas associated with caste and poverty, with many at risk for the additional stigma of HIV/AIDS, they indeed live, function and thrive as a supportive community as exemplified by these images of a day in the life of a Delhi slum.

~DMG