I’m Prema, and I turn 50 this year. I have been a nurse for more than half my life now. I now work in the ICU ward in Muscat, Oman. As a medical professional, 2020 has been a challenging year for us. I’ve seen desperation and death up close my entire career, yet nothing could […]
Author Archives: Humans of 2020
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For the past twenty years, I’ve lived in the Middle East. I currently work in Dubai as a nanny. I’m sixty years old, have never been married, and my whole family lives in India. I never imagined I’d live to see a time like this. In 2020, when the talk about the virus began, I […]
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I was keen on starting a global youth organisation to raise awareness on Female Genital Cutting when my dad said, “Be the change you want to see in the world”. I am currently in my second-year law degree in the UK and have worked with intellectual and disability awareness organisations in India for several years. […]
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I’m Rajamma, seventy years old from Palakkad, Kerala, India. I currently work with a family as a maid – cooking, cleaning and doing other odd jobs around the house. I’ve had to depend on myself my entire life. I am a widow who has raised her children and three grandchildren all by myself. I won’t […]
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