These
are children who have the privilege of working and of doing meaningful work at
each phase of their growing up. A child of four sweeps the courtyard and put
the muggu (rangoli). A child of six starts the fire and heats up bath water for
the family, a child of eight cooks the evening rice. The middle school children
leave for their school three kilometers away after doing some basic morning works
of cooking, cleaning vessels and
clearing cowdung. They come back from the government school by six in the
evening. Then they heat up water for their bath, cook the evening meal if the
parents are away at labour, and come neat and eager to sit together and do
their homework. They have luckily not been told that to have to work is a sad
situation and they are able to engage
fruitfully in the home responsibilities along with school. On holidays, they go
grazeing the cows or go for labour. Happy children, with a sense of responsibility and anchor in real life. Lucky
children.
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