Help for India's young rag pickers

Published: 5 February 2009 y., Thursday

Many children living in slums in the eastern Indian state Jharkhand are so poor that they have pick through garbage to earn extra money for their families. Parents are reluctant to send their children to school.

Šaltinis: Reuters
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