Shaheen Mistri walked into a Mumbai slum at 18. She is still there, at 55, with 50 Million Children.
She was 18, a college student in Mumbai, when she first walked into the city’s slums to teach. There was no organisation behind it, no fellowship, no grant. Just a young woman who had grown up in India and abroad and could not reconcile the world she had been given with the one child in…