These Heartbreaking Pictures From A Construction Site Show A Kid Tied Up To A Stone While Her Mother Works
15-month-old Shivani is tied to a rock at a building site in Ahmedabad. Her mother says she has no option but to tether Shivani to the stone despite her crying. There are about 40 million construction workers in India at least one in five of them women.
Fifteen month-old Shivani tugs at a plastic tape her mother has wrapped around her leg and tied to a rock at a building site in Ahmedabad. Barefoot and caked in dust, the toddler spends nine hours a day in temperatures topping 40 degrees Celsius attached to the 4.5 foot tape marked ¡°caution¡±.
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Sarta Kalara, her mother, says she has no option but to tether Shivani to the stone despite her crying, while she and her husband work for Rs 250 rupees each a shift digging holes for electricity cables in the city.
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¡°I tie her so she doesn¡¯t go on the road. My younger son is three and a half so he is not able to control her,¡± said the 23-year old, covering her face with her sari.
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¡°This site is full of traffic, I have no option. I do this for her safety.¡±
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There are about 40 million construction workers in India, at least one in five of them women, and the majority poor migrants who shift from site to site, building infrastructure.
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Across the country it is not uncommon to see young children rolling in the sand and mud as their parents carry bricks or dig for new roads or luxury houses.
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