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France baby-swap families win damages<br />
(France)<br />
As Hugh Schofield reports, the swap was only discovered when one of the girls felt she<br />
did not look like her father. The families of two French girls who were accidentally<br />
switched at birth 20 years ago have been awarded nearly €2m (£1.5m) in damages. The<br />
clinic involved in the mix-up was ordered to compensate both girls - now women - their<br />
parents and siblings. Both babies had been treated in the same incubator and were then<br />
given to the wrong parents. Although the error was discovered 10 years ago, neither<br />
family has wanted to swap the girls back. On Tuesday, the court in Grasse, southern<br />
France, ordered the clinic in Cannes to pay €400,000 to each of the girls. Read the full<br />
story at : http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-3<strong>13</strong>50550.<br />
Project launched to ensure children of sugarcane<br />
factory workers attend school.<br />
(India)<br />
When the kids are small and both the parents work, the kids are taken along and they<br />
lose out on education. Pune division’s Women and Child Development department has<br />
recently started a pilot project in Solapur to increase enrollment of children of sugarcane<br />
workers in schools. The project includes making school leaving certificates easily<br />
available to making local people take responsibility of the kids. The department intends<br />
to spread the project to other districts too.“What we are trying to do is create an all-