The Migration Story 76d ago

Every summer, Delhi's temperature crosses 45°C on multiple days, pushing the government to shut down schools and offices and forcing millions indoors. But the city's 650,000 street vendors have no such option. Because for these workers, a day off the street is a day without income, and there is no savings account, no sick leave, and no safety net to fall back on. The Migration Story explores the lives of women vendors in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, and Hyderabad to understand how extreme heat affects those whose livelihoods depend on outdoor work. The impacts are layered and compounding. At the surface: heatstroke and dehydration are immediate, visible, and increasingly common. And beneath all of it are the economic losses: customers who stop coming when the heat peaks, produce that spoils before it can be sold, and medical bills that quietly swallow the day's earnings. Read The MIgration Story offering 'Heat Shift' here: https://themigrationstory.com/theheatshift/ Video by Sajid Ali Contributors Almaas Masood, Hyderabad Amoolya Rajappa, Bengaluru Supreet Sapkal, Mumbai Nihira Pillai, Ahmedabad #DelhiHeatwave #StreetVendors #WomenWorkers #ClimateChange #India #ExtremeHeat #InformalEconomy #MigrantWorkers #TheMigrationStory Visit : www.themigrationstory.com Subscribe to our newsletter TMS Dispatch here: https://lnkd.in/drZUNPBs Follow The Migration Story on: Twitter: https://x.com/TMigrationStory Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-migration-story/ Instagram: themigrationstoryindia