Who are the people risking their lives on India's 'dirtiest job'?
Sewer cleaners die every year in India but caste-based discrimination means their suffering remains largely ignored - Anadolu Ajansı
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Sewer cleaners die every year in India but caste-based discrimination means their suffering remains largely ignored - Anadolu Ajansı
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Get them going to look over there. and it's dangerous oxygen levels can be low in large cesspools last year some three hundred sewer workers died in india from drowning suffocation or exposure to toxic gases the more privileged social classes prefer to ignore the dullards plight they're invisible to most in india's more than three thousand year old caste system that does it's of the lowest of the low even today seventy years after discrimination on the basis of caste was officially banned with no chance of upward mobility it's hard for people like to maintain even a semblance of dignity it's t...
Going to new elementary schools. what are called the welcoming schools in the system. displaced by those 47 closures. and because of the violence in chicago, because of the gun violence on the streets, although the chicago police statistics show, and correctly, that murders are down by about 25% from last year, shootings are down by about 25% from last year. murders are on a pace to be at the lowest level since 1965. but there are still violent incidents on the streets. so to protect those kids who are going to new schools, a lot of them crossing gang territory, crossing over gang turf, border...
Year. there are about 2,000 fewer employees, including teachers. 12,000 students because of the school closures, are taking longer walks to school and sometimes crossing dangerous gang turf. and because of that, there is a new program called save passage, trying to identify safe routes for these children to their new schools. lining these roots, along these roots, not only police, but city workers, water, sewer workers and parking enforcement workers, all eyes and ears to watch these routes for violence, to listen to the kids, to listen to their concerns. there are a number of community activi...