They may be widowed at personal level, but their iron will is not widowed. Three of the six members engaged in food/snack business of the Subhodaya Mahila Sangham (SHG) lost their husbands and, with them a major source of family’s livelihood. Most of the poor and lower middle class families require both partners to work in order to make both ends meet. This delicate and fragile economic routine gets easily disturbed when one partner dies. Intervention of MEPMA into the hard realities of life of suffering women in urban towns of Andhra Pradesh constituted the break of first light that inaugurated a new life for them in terms of carving out a meaningful and purposeful life patterns. The Subhodaya SHG group...