A new home for Sandhya Thakur, and more

Seven-year-old Sandhya Thakur is finally getting a new family.

A new home for Sandhya Thakur

Seven-year-old Sandhya Thakur is finally getting a new family. A year ago the building where she lived in Mumbai suddenly collapsed, killing more than 70 people, including the girl’s entire family. She spent the next 23 days in a hospital under the care of senior nurse Veena Kadle. “I felt an instant affection for the girl,” said Kadle, and since Sandhya’s release she and her husband, who are childless, have been battling India’s bureaucracy for permission to adopt her. Last week they finally won. “Now our family is complete,” said Kadle’s mother-in-law.

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