Pratap Singh Bora is a migrant laborer from Nepal who had to leave his construction job in India and is now living in a relief camp. But there's an upside to this turn of events.
But at the Tanakpur relief camp, residents get something extra: an opportunity to learn.
"He was embarrassed that he was the oldest of all the students in the class," says municipal official Prema Thakur who teaches the laborers. Most of the students are in their thirties, says Thakur."He used to say, 'what am I going to do learning to read and write at this age?'" says Thakur. Navidad, who goes by one name, learned to read and write when he was a kid but dropped out in middle school. Now, he's helping his lockdown classmates with their homework.Blamed For Coronavirus Outbreak, Muslims In India Come Under Attack
That's different from how laborers stranded in some other parts of the country are coping with the lockdown.earlier this month and thronged a railway station. They were demanding that the government allow them to go back to their villages. In the end, police used batons to disperse the crowd.
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