THE LITTLE MOTHERS


  • Photographer
    ARUP GHOSH
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    MR
Story

Today in the brickfields of India where both mother and father earn the living, the elder daughters, who are merely 5 to 8 years of age, look after the younger ones as their mother. They play, feed, clean, bath and dress them. They console and cheer them. They enjoy their duty. It is their game. This is their happy life. They are proud to be ‘THE LITTLE MOTHERS’.

Is there any chance for them to go to school? Their parents must work to earn their living and they must take care of their sisters and brothers. Then after 10 years of age they will work with their parents. Not only education, they do not have any scope for a better health. They cannot afford both. The money their parents earn (app. Rs.200 or $ 4 per day, at no work no pay basis) goes for the food and minimum clothing. Sometimes these poor girls become victim of human trafficking. They are lured with good job and then sold away. Some are lucky to go to school but as because they migrate from one state to other they cannot complete even a forth-standard education. When they are 15 ‘the little mothers’ get married and the story repeats… from one generation to next….

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