The Story & Context

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Kaala ram (changed Name) lives in Mahula village of Sulav panchayat, Kotra Block, Udaipur, Rajasthan. He lives with his wife & 5 children. Farming fulfills his family's stomach & also work as a Daily wage laborer fulfills the financial needs to an extent. He migrates every time, as there isn't much work in his village. Once he went out for work his youngest child got sick. His wife Sakli (changed name) took the child to the nearest PHC (Primary Health Care) center which is 5 km away. As PHC was closed during the afternoon, she was forced to take the child to a quack (Bengali doctor) for treatment. She has to spend Rs 250 for the treatment which otherwise would have been used for household expenses & children’s education (notebooks, stationary, etc.) His eldest child Ram (changed name) is a graduate who couldn’t find a job after graduation. He is working as a laborer. Seeing this, the family decided to educate the rest of the children up to grade 5 or maximum up to grade 8 and then nurture them for 'other' work. 

Just like this family, there are 86 families in Mahula who experience the same or 'something similar' like this. 

The Reality & Idea 

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In society, Social problems are complex as they are interconnected, influence & affect each other - Families' livelihood nature & problems (daily wage labor, migration) influence education which can be seen through the non-participation of parents in child education.

Lack of access to proper health care in time, affecting education which can be seen in children not being able to attend school or spend time at home, due to an increase in responsibilities to look after youngsters or household chores because of sickness in the child or family members. This is true for areas like Kotra. 

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In the case of Kaala ram & family, we see how Livelihood, Education, and Health, affect each other in their day to day and dreams for a better life, this is just one story of many more such dreams.

 

"Supporting & Solving a problem in a vertical would solve an issue to a certain level but it won’t be enough and neither sustainable as the root cause of a problem in one vertical may lie in another, which is often overlooked and underestimated."

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