The Women of Madanpur Khadar want jobs – and to play football
Womens Group Madanpur Khadar South Delhi "They live off the
wages of their husbands, mostly employed as vegetable sellers.
They barely get by". Photograph: Joanna Griffin  "Your driver
got drunk," explained Avik. We entered a tiny room, wall to wall
with women in colourful saris who had been expecting us for the
past two hours. They were sitting patiently; cross-legged on the
floor, awaiting their opportunity to have their stories heard.
My first day in Delhi, researching the role of sport in
international development, hadn't got off to a speedy start.
We'd finally recruited a second driver, stopped to ask rickshaw
drivers for directions and made our way through the draining
heat of the late monsoon to a small resettlement community in
South Delhi.  The women didn't seem to mind - they had plenty to
say. Driven from their own communities by government
development, they had been forced to re-settle south of the
city. Most had been employed as dome