The Children of the Tea Gardens
The Children of the Tea Gardens
For more than a hundred years, the children of the tea gardens, their parents and earlier generations have lived here in North Bengal as isolated migrants from Jharkhand and Nepal.
Tea garden in West Bengal
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Swaraj Mahali, a Jharkhandi child only nine months old, living in one of North Bengal's closed tea gardens. On a closer look, she is a tiny body ravaged by tuberculosis. More than half of the children in these gardens suffer from severe malnutrition. Read the complete story
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As you sip your first cuppa in the morning, you can promise yourself to help change the situation.
Children of the tea gardens
