a girl who have to go through life without a face.

"I was visiting my sister in Allahabad when it happened. She had recently separated from her husband and was getting a divorce, that summer. My sister, our two friends and I were walking near a railway station when her husband and two friends were waiting with acid. He held my sister’s hand and tried to pour acid on her but she was fighting him off. She shouted, ‘Reshma, you run!’ but before I could do anything, his two friends pushed me to the ground, held my hands and poured acid all over my face. I was only 17 at the time and my offenders are walking free today, while I have to go through life without a face.

After the attack, I didn’t receive a single rupee in compensation from the government, but instead from an NGO- Make Love Not Scars and that’s where I met Ria Ma’am. She changed my life…I used to cry all day after the attack and had no hope for my life, but she drew me out of my shell. I used to have no courage, but now I want to study and work for so many other women like me who have been subjected to this brutality. I want them to have hope, like I do now. I want them to have faith, like I do now. I want them to know that beauty isn’t skin deep and it goes a far way beyond that. I am brave. I am beautiful."