Children of gravediggers at Kalpalli cemetery
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Twenty dalit families live in the graveyard here and make a living by digging graves. DH Photo
Thirty children of gravediggers’ families at Kalpalli cemetery in Bengaluru have made a few new good friends. A group of volunteers from an NGO are visiting them daily to conduct after school classes right at the graveyard.
Twenty dalit families live in the graveyard here and make a living by digging graves. They have been pursuing their family profession for the last three generations.
Most of them have not gone to schools and find it difficult to get any other work. As digging graves is a low paid job and with burials not happening every day, they struggle to feed their families.
They do not want their children to follow them into their profession. All the families hope that their children will get good education and find better prospects in life.
The children go to nearby government schools and were not happy with the quality of teaching there. The families say but for the after-school classes, the children would have lost interest in studies.
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Twenty dalit families live in the graveyard here and make a living by digging graves. They have been pursuing their family profession for the last three generations.
Most of them have not gone to schools and find it difficult to get any other work. As digging graves is a low paid job and with burials not happening every day, they struggle to feed their families.
They do not want their children to follow them into their profession. All the families hope that their children will get good education and find better prospects in life.
The children go to nearby government schools and were not happy with the quality of teaching there. The families say but for the after-school classes, the children would have lost interest in studies.
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