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The Slaves of mica, India

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India - Jharkhand - Dhab - Sarita Devi's house. “That day I went to mine at 9, together with my parents. When I started digging, the walls were so soft that they collapsed upon me. I fainted immediately” A beautiful mother of four kids, four months ago 25-year-old Sarita Devi fractured her right leg when the mine she was working subsized, completely burying her. Today, she still cannot walk properly, bend or crouch. Unable to help her family in the mine, she stays at home, looking after her sons and elder relatives. Although she doesn't like the idea of going back to the mine, Sarita will have to, once she will completely recover from the accident in one-year-time. The eldest of two brotherless sisters, it's Sarita who will have to look after her aging parents and find a way to repay the 100,000 rupees loan the family took to pay for her hospital expenses.