Pammi is the oldest inhabitant of the shelter. She is 69 years old and half blind. To some people she is like a mother, to others like a grandmother. A small house with two rooms is the first state-funded shelter for trans women in Chennai. Pammi lives here with her protegees. In India, security in old age is usually provided by the family, but Pammi has no family. The younger residents take care of her - they cook and eat together. The shelter is a safe place for Pammi and the other residents. She gives them advice and is proud when they succeed at school or at work. The women who live here have been abandoned by their biological families. Now they live together like a family.
Pammi is the oldest inhabitant of the shelter. She is 69 years old and half blind. To some people she is like a mother, to others like a grandmother. A small house with two rooms is the first state-funded shelter for trans women in Chennai. Pammi lives here with her protegees. In India, security in old age is usually provided by the family, but Pammi has no family. The younger residents take care of her - they cook and eat together. The shelter is a safe place for Pammi and the other residents. She gives them advice and is proud when they succeed at school or at work. The women who live here have been abandoned by their biological families. Now they live together like a family.