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Achal used to narrate poems, stories and lesson that she had learned in school to her cousins in the initial days of her stay, but as days passed, she stopped narrating and singing songs.
They were primarily dependent upon meager income from seasonal agriculture until alternative livelihood opportunity was created for them.
Women in the village spent countless hours fetching water for the family or spent their hard earned meager income to purchase water.
When the landlord asked about bringing their eldest son to work to repay the debts, she decided that her children should not have the same fate.