When Fatima Mynsong, Acquiline Songthiang and Matilda Suting came to Civil Society’s Hall of Fame, they sang an anti-corruption song. The energy in the room was electric. They pursued social justice with the same enthusiasm in Jongksha in Meghalaya.
Fatima was the community coordinator of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) and she found that the money for payment of wages had been fraudulently withdrawn. Her enquiry did not go down well with the male village heads. The three women were ostracised and their rations were stopped.
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