A decade after her husband died cleaning a septic tank, a woman in MP struggles to keep going

The sight of her three-year-old son and her infant daughter reminded Rekha Devi of the reason to live. Rekha Devi and her children. This article is part of “India’s Dirty Secret”, a series on manual scavenging and sewage worker deaths. Based on a study of the International Labour Organisation, Delhi, it brings together stories of families whose…