India. Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal. 2014.

Shahzadi Bi (front, standing) with her family.

Shahzadi Bi, aged 60, lives in Blue Moon Colony, one of the 22 communities that surround the old Union Carbide pesticide factory. The area is ravaged by water contamination, caused by pollution caused by Union Carbide operations.

I am a victim of both disasters, the toxic gas leak and toxicity in drinking water, she explains. The disaster overturned her and her family's lives. Everyone has dreams, she says. I too had those. My dream was not about becoming a teacher or doctor I wished that we would provide a good education to our children¦ but the gas leak shattered all these dreams.

Shahzadi is now a member of a number of campaigning groups, including the Stationary Workers Association and the Bhopal Gas Victims Struggle Committee.

We did many demonstrations and carried out many rallies, burnt many effigies, sat on hunger strikes, carried out two marches on foot from Bhopal to Delhi, in 2006 and 2008, explains Shahzadi. In 2006, we raised the issue of toxicity in ground water of these 22 slums. The government listened to us and agreed to provide us clean water from the Narmada pipeline.