Shavina’s story of survival, strength and resilience

Key points

• Maribyrnong resident Shavina Hill has published her debut memoir, Why Did It Happen To Me?, on Wednesday 28 October. The book traces her childhood poverty and homelessness in India, her adoption by an Australian family at nine, and her founding of Street Born Foundation, which supports vulnerable children in India.
• Hill said she wrote it to help readers who ask similar questions about their own lives.
• She said her hope is that readers will recognise that their past does not have to define their future.