Climate action initiative brings together disability community worldwide
Puneet Singh Singhal grew up in a slum in New Delhi, India, with his chronically ill mother, according to a blog post that he published almost a year ago. Singhal also shared in this blog post that he battled dyslexia (a learning disorder affecting a person’s ability to read and write), dyspraxia (neurodevelopmental disorder affecting movement and coordination), and a stutter as a child, and both he and his mother are survivors of domestic violence. He then shared what it’s like to live through heat waves and how he, his mother, and other residents in his neighborhood were affected by one during the past summer. “Living through a Delhi heatwave, in a ramshackle home with no respite from the sweltering heat, feels like being trapped in an oven. During one unbearable summer, our neighborhood faced an acute water crisis,” he said. “My mother’s existing health issues were aggravated terribly. Dehydration ravaged her body while her chronic ailmen...