A young girl looks after her baby brother while her parents are out to look for work in a nearby hamlet. Majority of the people here have been migrating for years. Even the implementation of the National Employment Guarantee Act that provides 100 days of employment per year per household is not enough to curb migration.
Most households are extremely large sometimes growing even as big as 8-10 members and so there's never enough to feed the family. Parents  go to near by hamlets to look for employment while some of the children go to work at the worksites and others stay back to look after the household and their siblings. (image by Sohrab Hura)
A young girl looks after her baby brother while her parents are out to look for work in a nearby hamlet. Majority of the people here have been migrating for years. Even the implementation of the National Employment Guarantee Act that provides 100 days of employment per year per household is not enough to curb migration. Most households are extremely large sometimes growing even as big as 8-10 members and so there's never enough to feed the family. Parents go to near by hamlets to look for employment while some of the children go to work at the worksites and others stay back to look after the household and their siblings.
©Sohrab Hura
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