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The mobile bus stop installation will travel through these routes to address critical gaps in accessibility and connectivity and also act as a symbol for informal women’s voices collectively demanding to be connected to the grid through a bus stop in their neighbourhood, said an Alli Serona member.
Childhood, interrupted
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Children who lost their parents to covid are being put to work although there is an easy way to send them to the classroom
When the toss-up is between books and being a breadwinner, the latter wins. Many children who lost their fathers to covid have been forced to take up jobs, along with their mothers, to survive. Child rights activists are trying to safeguard the rights of a child to education, a constitutional right.
After Monisha (name changed) lost her husband, the lone earning member of their family, she and her 13-year-old daughter were forced to look for work to support her in-laws and her younger daughter. “My husband was working in a small eatery and died in May due to covid. I haven’t paid school fees since last year and with no income, it is becoming difficult to run the house. I started working as a domestic help and my eldest daughter joined me. I know she is a child but I have no option,” said Monisha.
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Last year, Shyam , 17, became one of the thousands of children in danger of living on the streets of India.
Shyam’s father had abandoned his family in Gudhiyari – a village in Raipur in Chhattisgarh state – eight years earlier. Shyam’s older brother, Gopi, who was 16 at the time, had turned to alcohol to cope, subsequently becoming violent towards their mother, 47-year-old Kishori .
To protect her and help support the family, Shyam dropped out of school when he was 10 and worked odd jobs as a dishwasher. But, unable to bear the stress and violence at home, he ran away in February 2020, in the hope of reaching Mumbai.