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Caption:		South Delhi, India. Eleven-year-old Saroj Mahavir takes her tuberculosis (TB) medicine from Mumta Gupta, a community health volunteer. World Vision's health strategy, in the face of a resurgence of TB in the slums, is to employ volunteer monitors to make sure that every single TB patient in the community takes their medicine properly, thus reducing the chance of resistant TB developing. The slums where World Vision works in the southern part of Delhi are like most slums in India, created by people coming into the city from the countryside, usually in search of employment or a better life. The South Delhi Area Development Program is providing health care and education, especially to girl children, in these slums. World Vision recently developed an intensive campaign to fight an outbreak of TB. The project is also creating Tutoring Centers in the slums to provide quality education to students who are working or are otherwise too busy to attend regular school. Photo by Steve Reynolds/World Vision.
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