Make Your Way 5, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

SAMSHAAD (Bidi-roller) B The room is dark. There is hardly any ventilation and when you step inside there is a strange smell. It is the smell of the tobacco leaf. If you squint your eyes, you’ll see 11-year-old Samshaad, her mother and sister, sitting in a corner rolling bidis . They all look pale and undernourished and all have a skin infection. Samshaad’s father, a paan seller, came to Bangalore to find a better job. But things weren’t much better, so everyone had to help to add to the family income. The two sisters earn about 15 rupees a day for rolling about 500-600 bidis. What about play? “I wish I could go out and play,” says Samshaad, “but I can’t. Since we are Muslims my parents are strict and don’t let us go out even for short walks. Besides, we have to make as much money as possible. But we listen to the radio while we work. That’s our entertainment.” Meera Govil Child workers in India CHARAN SINGH (Brass worker) A Black, metallic dust. Unbearable chemical fumes. A child covered in dust from head to foot. Only the teeth and eyes gleam and the voice laughs. This is Charan Singh, a 12-year-old brass polisher at a factory in Moradabad. The dust that covers him is because of the work he does, polishing brass articles on a fast-moving wheel. The workplace is covered with metallic dust and with chemical fumes. Charan Singh has been breathing in all of this since he was eight years old. Charan cannot read or write. He went to school for only a little while before he was sent to work by his parents. Now the factory is all he knows about. Accidents at work? “I’ll pay for my treatment,” he says, “from my own pocket.” And he laughs. Charan walks 7 km every day from Mehlapur, where he lives, to the factory. He has no complaints. “When I work in a factory, I like it most. What else can I like?” he asks. And he laughs again. Vineet Kumar bidi: eine indische Zigarette paan: Blatt zum Kauen, das mit verschiedenen Zutaten gefüllt ist 71 4 Extensive unit 4: India Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verl gs öbv