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Laxmi Saa’s Face of Courage

Feb 22, 2016, at 06:02 am

Laxmi was 15 when she rejected a 32-year old man’s offer of marriage. He decided to get even; he disfigured her by throwing acid on her face. That is whereLaxmi’s advocacy started: speaking out against the unregulated sale of acid in India and campaign for harsher sentence for those guilty of acid attacks.

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