A Girl Selling Flower

 12 year old girl grew up in the street. Her father took her out of school when she was in 5 grades and sent her to work for selling flower .Her rights are humiliated of going to school and she was earning for her family.

 She told us that for her responsibility mean to listen to his father. She told us that she did not enjoy the work but she does it for his father. She also told us that she don’t know that what is her responsibility towards her self and her parents responsibility? She dreamed to carry on this work.

                We thought she was unhappy because the mindset of her about responsibility has change her life .we also thinks that it is important to understand the value of our responsibility. We should not execute our responsibility in wrong way because it can make his/her life unsatisfactory.

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The Garage Boy

The boy grew up in a poor and violent home. He told us that “his father would always spend his salary in alcohol”. After drinking alcohol father of the child would beat him and his mother because of this problem child stared working in the age of thirteen. He repairs small parts of car in garage.

He had left his school while he was studying in 3^rd STD. The word responsibility means to him is to take care of him.

 He was unable to answer that what are his parent’s responsibility towards him.

 He was also unable to answer two general knowledge questions like who is prime minister of India and what are child rights and human rights?

After listening to him we thought why do some people drink so much which after that they become mad and start hitting their wife or children .Do alcohol is need of human?

Then why to spend so much money on alcohol? Alcohol kills people. People should think before drinking alcohol that if they will die who will take care of their family? Are they leaving their responsibility incomplete or not? What do you think? 

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Fisher Boy

Today’s story is about a boy who catches fishes and sells It. The boy may be 12 years old. Before going to him and take his interview, we were scared because the boy worked very close to our area and there were also some people from our community who sell fish. We both thought what they will think about us but my friend Akash ahire said in a courageously “chal ek bar try toh karte hai”.

The boy was working with his friend. He was in a joky mood.  We went towards him and tried to communicate with him. The boy told us that he catches fish and sells for whole day.

He also told us that he had studied till 5^th STD. One of the reasons he gave

Why he works is that because his mother is ill for long time and father always spends money in drinking. For him responsibility means to take care of his parents and earn money. He told us that he worked for his mother. For him parent’s responsibility is to take care of his child but it did not happened .His father never goes to work and he drinks alcohol from his son salary. When we asked about his dream he told that “nothing can  happened“. He was not able answer our general knowledge question is prime minister of India? And what are child rights and human rights?

   The boy was just 12 years old and in this age where he should play and have fun but he was playing with his life. We also think that here his right was affected because of his father who had passed his responsibility for his own benefit without thinking about his son's future and his responsibility towards him. Why today he/she using his power in a wrong way? why today it has become difficulty for an individual to take his own responsibility? why? I think that irresponsibility leads to child labor. Think on it.

                                                 STOP CHILD LABOR
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Child Who Works In a Hotel

Today’s story is about a boy who works in a hotel .Yesterday, it was his birthday and he turned 17.His name is Vishal*. He failed in standard 10^th. His dad works as a washer man and his mother is a housewife in his hometown. He came from other state to Mumbai. He has been here for 1.5 years. Now he lives in hotel where he works. He works Every day from 6:00 am to 10:00 pm. He only gets 2 hours for rest.

We asked him “Did you come here voluntarily or your parents force you to?” He replied “No! I forced my parents to let me go.” He was able to answer that who is prime minister of India. But he was not able to answer, what are child rights and human rights? Then Akash asked him “Do you know what your rights are?” He answered, “I have no rights, but I’ll make my own rights.” He also said he came here (Mumbai) because he felt that there were financial problem in his house. He has 2 younger brothers. He thinks responsibility means for him is to take care of his family. We asked him, “don’t you think it is your parent’s responsibility to take care of you?” He said, “Sometimes parents face problems (financial) but are not comfortable asking their children to leave their education and start working.”

At the beginning of our interview we asked him “do you go to school?” He said, “No I don’t go to school I left my school when I failed in 10^th standard. But I want to go because my aim is to become a businessman.” He craves to study further but because of his job he can’t study. 

After this talk we had some questions in our mind: Why are people giving chance to their children so that they force them to let them work? Why can’t our friends, teacher etc. think about friends or students?  Like this child who had low confidence when he failed,

why could his friend or teachers not motivate him in a positive way? Isn’t it is our responsibility?

* The name of the child is changed to maintain privacy.

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