With only the bridge for a roof overhead, their learning could be jeopardised anytime by a reasonably strong spell of showers. Serving as a constant backdrop to their class is their parents engaged in myriad jobs, from cooking to mending fishing nets. For, what functions as their makeshift school also doubles up as their home. A few children were students of the school, while some are about to be enrolled. Resource crunch hampers any attempt to reach out to more such children, while the prospect of the reopening of the school with its infrastructure challenges remains far from reassuring, said Ms. Fernandez.

Source: The Hindu June 10, 2020 17:51 UTC