As their classmates set off to play after school each day, nine-year-old Sakshi ...
MUKUNDWADI, India - As their classmates set off to play after school each day, nine-year-old Sakshi Garud and her neighbor Siddharth Dhage, 10, are among a small group of children who take a 14 km return train journey from their village in India to fetch water.
India’s monsoons have brought abundant rain and even floods in many parts of the country, but rainfall in the region around Mukundwadi has been 14% below average this year and aquifers and borewells are dry.“This is my daily routine,” said Garud. Their cramped shanty homes are just 200 meters from the train station. “After coming from school, I don’t get time to play. I need to get water first.”
“Some people help me, sometimes they complain to railway officials for putting pitchers near the door. If we don’t put them near the door, we can not take them out quickly when the train stops,” Dhage said.
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