COVID'S IMPACT ON SLUMS OF INDIA: STORY OF A GIRL
Photo by Somia D Costa on Unsplash My mother works as a laborer and earns very less because the contactor has set a low fixed wage i.e. Rs.350 for her. They don't let me work because I'm a child and thus, I cannot contribute to my family. Said a girl who has been dropping by my house almost every week since a month. The first time she came, I thought she was some needy child, who was a victim of the covid situation and was thus asking for food. I gave her some pieces of bread and a mango and wanted to know her whereabouts after which she left. She came again one day, and my mom gave her some food and she left. Today, she opened up more about her life when my mom asked her about it and this is what she said (written above). I felt so privileged after this. I went inside trying to find anything in the house that we weren't using that would make her happy. We gave her some clips to pin down her hair and some old hairbands that my sister had along with a kurta set. On being
