The need for decent housing is vast in India. To have a roof that doesn’t leak and walls that are not steadily crumbling away is a dream many millions will never realize.

I often cite statistics when I am trying to convey the profound needs in India.  But I realize that often real people and their real problems are blurred by the very statistics that seek to define the problem.

So when I say that 70% of India’s population lives on less than $2 a day, you may wonder what that looks like.  Well, as you would guess, that amount of money is barely enough to survive on.  So a family at this level can barely buy food and may or may not be able to keep their children in school.  And the places where they live are often in worse shape than the buildings we would keep animals in.

Please allow me to share the story of an elderly couple my family and I visited in India this year. More »