no-longer-a-slumdog
no-longer-a-slumdog
no-longer-a-slumdog
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No Longer a Slumdog<br />
away for the children to reach by foot.<br />
The truth is that free education isn’t really free anyway. There<br />
are fees, plus books and school supplies that are needed. Proper<br />
clothing is expected too. All of these requirements cost too much<br />
Although education is<br />
supposed to be free,<br />
many parents can’t even<br />
afford the supplies their<br />
children need in order to<br />
attend school.<br />
for most poor families. According to one of our social workers<br />
who ministers to slum children, most of them have only a single<br />
change of clothes. He says, “When we tell them to bathe and<br />
change their dress, they can’t. So they will go home and wash, but<br />
the next day they will come in the same dress.”<br />
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