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My Scholarship entry - Shahpur: Illiteracy, Unemployment and Poverty

INDIA | Monday, 24 November 2014 | Views [303] | View Larger Image

Old Ram Kumar with his family and his sons. Both his sons work in the nearby town of Daltonganj, one as a daily labourer and the other as a peon. It is a daily fight to earn their livelihood.

Shahpur village, Palamau District, in the eastern part of India, a backward village, during a cold winter morning of January 2014, with Ms. Minz, the Principle of a local school, on a social visit. Not many children go to school from this village; Ms Minz tries to persuade these people to send their children to school, as the government has schemes for free education.

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Kishan, who runs a small cycle repair shop, smiles with his wife and sister in front of his dilapidated house. He has no money to repair his house. He never went to school; today he barely earns enough to feed his family.

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