Saturday, October 20, 2012
Indian rickshaw-puller forced to take baby to work
This article gives a brief story about a man in India, whose wife died in child birth, and because of this death he now must carry his baby daughter to work everyday. His job is to taxi people in a rickshaw; he must pedal the wheels of the rickshaw, with one hand on the handle bars, and the other carrying his baby girl. People around the world have all types of situations similar to this, and what choice do they have but to endure. This man is receiving help to care for his child, because of the publicity from articles about his situation. Otherwise, he most likely would not have received any sort of aid. The article also says how Mr. Jatav struggles to pay 500 rupees for rent each month (equivalent to $6), as well as the 30 rupees he must pay to continue to use his rickshaw. As a 16 year old in America I posses enough money, simply lying around, to pay this man's rent for at least the next 3 years. People live on less than a dollar a day. For men like Bablu Jatav, his only hope seems to lie within his arms.
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