
Success Story: A Journey to Leadership Starts with Land Ownership
Freedom Begins: Reclaiming the Right to Choose When Hareram* was freed from bonded labor in May 2023, freedom meant more than leaving exploitation behind. For Hareram and others in the lowest caste Musahar community of northern India, it marked the beginning of a journey toward dignity, legal identity, and a future they could finally help shape. Before his release, Hareram’s community was landless and lived in extreme poverty, with little access to information about their legal rights and government entitlements. Generations of systemic marginalization had left families
