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Written from the heart

Mujeres de Bombay, a book by Spanish journalist and activist Jaumes Sanllorente, weaves in narratives of social injustice through the lives of seven women from Mumbai's slums

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Works with survivors of human trafficking in Kamathipura

Works with survivors of human trafficking in Kamathipura

It is funny how, being born and raised in Barcelona, when I land at its airport, I have a neutral feeling. But when the pilot announces that we are landing at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, I say to myself 'I'm home'."

Shuttling between two countries for over a decade, Spanish journalist Jaume Sanllorente, 42, doesn't feel like a tourist in Mumbai. Moved by the condition of children raised on the streets while on a vacation in India in 2003, he founded Sonrisas de Bombay or the Mumbai Smiles Foundation (MSF) in 2005, a charitable organisation that works with disadvantaged communities in the city through advocacy projects and offers support to survivors of human trafficking.

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