Andrew Wander; 9/9/09
For the women who live there, the daily challenge of scratching a living from the scorched land means that education has become a luxury rather than a right. Life in Bundelkhand, a desperately poor district of Uttar Pradesh in northern India, is hard at the best of times. In a land ravaged by drought for the past decade, farmers can only look on as their crops fail, their cattle die and their incomes wither under the searing Indian sunYet among Bundelkhand’s barren fields, a pioneering literacy project is flourishing in some of the district’s poorest communities.
See: http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/09/20099882935561705.html
Tags: Global, India, Womens Rights