Given the right kind of support in terms of health, education and training for a life outside the gruelling salt pans, families such as Bhavnaben’s can indeed escape the only life they have ever known —a life of constant deprivation and untold poverty.
Praful Patel is vice-president of the World Bank for South Asia. This article has been republished with permission from The World Bank. Comments are welcome at theirview@livement.com
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