Short summary of the lesson children at work it's so happened
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The chapter Children At Work deals with the plight of children working in different parts and sections of India with lower than the minimal wages and their conditions. The chapter deals with the story of one such boy named Velu. Velu lived in a small village of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu with his drunkard father.
Summary of:- Children at work
Written by:-
Gita wolf
Anushka Ravi Shankar
Orijit Sen
{ From trash-on ragpicker children and recycling}
This is a short realistic and sensitive story of those children who are deprived, underprivileged and poor. It is an excerpt from trash or drug picker children and recycling written by Gita wolf , Anushka ravishankar and Orijit Sen.
Velu, young boy of 11 years, run away from his home because he was tired of his father's beating. He boarded train and reached Chennai without ticket. He was utterly tired and hungry and was also confused seeing the crowd.
A young girl of his heels called out to him and ask him his where about and offered to help him to search food. He blindly followed her. The girl took him to a big building. She took him behind a big hall. There was garbage bin overflowing with rubbish. It was surrounded with extreme dirt and filth. The girl pick up a rotted banana and a left over vada and gave it to Velu. But Velu I was shocked to think that he had to eat the leftovers. He resetted but as there was no option left he get down vada at banana, the girl ate only banana.
He asked the girls name, she replied it was Jaya. They walked along the roads until they came to a bridge across a dirty trickle of water. There werr rows of huts near a dirty puddle. Jaya dumped her sack outside one of these huts. When Velu asked her profession, Jaya said that they were the rag pickers. They collected garbage at sold it to jaggu in jam bazaar who in turn sold it to a factory. The whole descriptions made velu sad, he had not run away to pick up the things from the garbage with but unwillingly he thought of staying back, until he could find a better job