Child drives rickshaw to save family
That day I was shocked to see a boy named Rana (11) driving rickshaw on Jahangirnagar University campus. I asked him why he was engaged in this hard work at this age instead of going to school. He replied, “My father has been suffering from old age complications for the last six months. My mother is a housewife. I am the eldest among three brothers. So I left school and started working to feed my family."
At one point he said with tearful eyes, “I dreamt to be an engineer one day but now I am just trying to remain alive." Hearing his story I could not control my tears. Can't we do anything for these hapless kids on the campus?
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