Asylum for widows

young or old, widows often become outcasts, cut off their own communities deprived of their civil and economic rights, and sometimes thrown out of their homes by their own families.

Hundreds of widows in India, abandoned by their families live in a shelter Vrindavan providing them education, health and professional navyki.

Widow posing for photos in her room at the ashram in the city of Vrindavan in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

In India, when a man dies, traditionally it expected that his widow should renounce all earthly pleasures, such as wearing colorful clothes and monitor soboy.

In addition, she could face serious social discrimination.

We Indians are not thinking a life outside of marriage, widows are pariahs on an equal footing with the untouchables, but if the latter can at least communicate with each other, the widows are often denied and etogo.

The reason for this attitude is the belief that women are deprived of a family hearth angered God, and now they have until the end of life to beg him proschenie.

Source: mirfactov.com/