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This book Stories of Resilience, brings to life stories of badly wounded world of children, who ultimately offer an incredible message of encouragement and hope to all readers. Children who have healed themselves and one another from the deepest personal injuries of child rapes, sexual violence, child marriage, intergenerational poverty and patriarchy. Protsahan’s dear friend and renowned author, Ramendra Kumar says, “I got slender threads of fact, from the Founder of Protsahan, around which I had to weave tales of fiction that would showcase the resilience of the Protsahan girls in the face of almost impossible odds. The brief given to me was to tell stories which would epitomise the spirit but not reveal the persona of the girls in the remotest way. It was a tough task, possibly one of the most challenging ones I have ever undertaken. The book is my tribute to the girls of Protsahan – the angels who are ready to fly despite the broken wings, smothered hopes and smudged dreams…” As director and founder of Protsahan India Foundation, working against child abuse in every form, Sonal Kapoor, has borne witness to the devastating consequences of the most unspeakable acts of violence against children in the past decade of her work at grassroots for India’s most vulnerable children and girls. Furthermore, she has seen firsthand how victims of inhumanity have found the inner strength to overcome lifealtering trauma with renewed faith and have even regained humor and optimism at Protsahan. Book’s author, Ramendra over long interview based research with the Protsahan team, has beautifully, subtly and intricately described selfhealing in children in an ambience of love and through trauma informed compassionate care model of Protsahan.