TusharKumar
Striving for education
In India many young children opt out of education in favour of a life on the streets or working as child labourers. Realising that people living in slums don’t have an income proof, schools use this as an excuse to reject applications. The schools employ different ways to discourage them. Ranging from shortage of admission forms to outright humiliation. For the poorest group of children, poverty is both a cause and a result of inaccessibility to education. The poor cannot afford education, and the illiterate cannot hope to earn enough to overcome poverty.
Striving for education
In India many young children opt out of education in favour of a life on the streets or working as child labourers. Realising that people living in slums don’t have an income proof, schools use this as an excuse to reject applications. The schools employ different ways to discourage them. Ranging from shortage of admission forms to outright humiliation. For the poorest group of children, poverty is both a cause and a result of inaccessibility to education. The poor cannot afford education, and the illiterate cannot hope to earn enough to overcome poverty.