CASE STUDY: REMARRIAGE OF A WIDOW

Sabhai ben is a widow who lives in her mother’s house together with her two daughters and her son in Mindiyana village. Before the earthquake she was living together with her husband in another location. In the quake her husband was killed and their house destroyed so she had to move back to her mother’s house. Her husband had kept the house in her name so the compensation legally belonged to her but her in-laws kept the compensation she was supposed to receive. 

With the efforts of PRAYAS she joined a human rights advocacy group and it was decided that a combined effort should be taken so justice could be redeemed. With help from the PRAYAS team she started a dialogue with her brother in-law. He told her that he would not give her the compensation for the destroyed house if she were remarried outside the family. The brother was unmarried and Sabhai ben did have any alternative proposal of marriage, so therefore they agreed upon to marriage each other. Sabhai ben got the money for a new house and could start to rebuild her life.

See also case study on Women empowerment and description of Human Rights Advocacy for Single Women Program.