Poor need everything that a non-poor need, to lead a decent quality of life. However, while the non-poor have graduated to needs + +….the basic needs of the poor remain largely unmet. They seem to be caught in a quagmire of issues pertaining to affordability and accessibility that continue to hamper their fulfillment of needs including those of food,  health, education, housing, livelihood, security etc. In this context ‘livelihoods’ attempts to enumerate the felt needs of the poor; the list is by no means exhaustive….