Support-11500-kids-out-of-child-labour-&-poverty

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Anita Jedgule, bidi-roller

Anita in the cigaretter 'bidi' rolling factory

Anita in front of bags of tobacco

The sacks of tobacco that the women and children roll into cigarettes

A girl sleeping in the bidi-rolling factory

Until the project set up creches and pre-school facilities, infants and children had to spend all day in the toxic enclosed atmosphere of the factories, which gave them bad health and kept them out of education. Many would start helping their mothers as soon as they are big enough.