India

Question 1

Poverty

Answer 1

-2013 20 % line below poverty line
Reasons : increasing food prices, caste system,high population growth rate
Consequences: no education, malnutrition,poor health care facilities

Question 2

Girls education

Answer 2

• local initiative in Pune : spreads awareness about education, use example of “Adarsh Mahila” to show how education is the key to success
• government provides scholarships
• attendance allowance programme
• protest by Rajasthan school girls

Question 3

Child Labour

Answer 3

• pay may be as little as 10 rupees (0,13€) per day
• Vasant Kunz worked as a maid
• > was beaten, denied food, locked up
• between 60 an 115 million children are employed as maids or servants or as cheap workers in factories and farms

Question 4

Dalits

Answer 4

• the quota system
• Mr. Vemula -> killed himself , lost everything because he was a Dalit
• positive example: K.R.Narayanan, the 10th President of India, who was born into a lower caste of fishermen