Getting to know International Contacts

This week I researched poverty in India from the Childhood Poverty website. It was very profound to have read about these children and their families that were living in poverty. Overall, I chose the case study of a boy named Nanuram who is twelve years old living with his parents and two siblings (7 and 8 year olds) in a Tonk district that is located in the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan. His father works as a casual labourer on his land and also own some livestock while his mother does the household chores along with agricultural work and animal husbandry.
Nanuram is enrolled in Class VIII in a school that is located approximately 2 kilometres away from his village.Therefore, he walks to school together with other children from his village.Due to the death of his grandfather, Nanuram father burrowed a lot of money to finance his funeral and was unable to repay therefore, his lost a portion of his land and due to severity of drought his father was unable to make ends meet for his family. Therefore, Nanuram was pushed into earning to make an income so as to help ends meet for his family by selling ice cream.
Upon selling ice cream Nanuram was cheated by many persons, some of which credited ice cream from him and did not pay, older boys robbed him and stated that he sold it too expensive and due to hot weather conditions a lot of it melted. There are also times when there is too much household work for him to do and so he is unable to go to Chan to buy the ice cream. However, when he does sell ice cream, he is able to earn on average 30-40 Rupees a day. Of this sum, he gives 25 Rupees to his mother and keeps the rest for his own needs. He saves up his money to have clothesm,ade for himself.
Nanuram is troubled by the fact that his father is an alcoholic and is sometimes violent with his mother. He attributes his father’s frustration and ensuing violent behaviour to the family’s poor standard of living.

As I read the case, I was truly touched to know that at the age of twelve years old a child as to be working so hard  to help his family as well as do a lot of house chores and attend school.  I have learned that life is not easy at all for a lot of people living the world and even though their are organizations formed to help combat some of these issues and trends a number of perons are still left behind without getting any aid or assistance.

My new insights on the issue of poverty is that I think its level is increasing globally and children are struggling and are being stiffled towards their childhood years.It is a very ande serious issue that needs to be dealt with unitedly.