Anand, India
By Mansi Thapliyal
Reuters - September 30, 2013
A smooth, modern road in the prosperous Indian state of Gujarat leads
to 35-year-old Chimanlal’s small, windowless brick hut that he lives in
with his wife, young son and two daughters. Earning 2500 rupees ($38) a
month as a driver, Chimanial says it is not enough to feed his
children. Only his son goes to school. But in a year’s time, their lives
are set to change.
Some 50 kilometers (31 miles) away is the small city of Anand, known
as India’s “surrogacy capital”. Chimanlai’s wife is carrying a baby for a
Japanese couple in which she will be paid 450,000 rupees ($7,200), an
unimaginably large amount of money for a family like theirs.
Since 2004, over 500 Indian women have traveled to Anand from
neighboring villages and towns to become surrogate mothers for families
from nearly 30 countries. Dr Nayana Patel and her husband run Akanksha
clinic, the city’s only surrogacy facility.
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