Poverty and illness have made the life of Ghulam Sakina Baji extremely difficult. She is suffering from a deadly disease — cancer — and poverty has reached such an extent that even two meals a day are hard to afford. Her husband is a hernia patient and unable to work, while their only son works as a laborer on daily wages — sometimes he finds work, sometimes not.

Old Man Hardworking Yet Helpless
The Story of Hayat Baba – A Hardworking, Helpless, and Lonely Elder
Meet Hayat Baba, a man who spent his entire life doing hard labor with dignity. Today, in the final phase of life, he finds himself alone—with no children, no income, no shelter or good health.


