India: One rupee a day to go to school!

This is the solution found by the municipality of Bombay to fight against female school absenteeism. Twelve thousand little girls leave school every year to stay at home and do household chores. Worrying figures that made the municipality of Bombay react. One million euros was granted by the administration to encourage young girls not to leave their school. A timely initiative for parents. "My father has no job and my mother is a cleaning lady. By earning one rupee a day, my mother insists that I go to school", confides a schoolgirl to the "Mumbai Mirror". MS
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