TEASED FOR HER HEARING DISABILITY, SHE DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL

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Until July this year, Anandi was in the list of those girls who had dropped out of school. A resident of Ajmer, Rajasthan, Anandi has suffered from hearing defects since birth. Unable to hear well, she was always an easy target for ridicule from her friends and neighbors. As she didn’t go to school, and her parents spent most of their day working in the fields, her grandfather was her only friend.
With five daughters and a son in his family, Anandi’s father enrolled all his children in school at the correct age. Something that’s not very common in that region. Despite his encouragement to study, when her two older sisters didn’t show much interest in education, he got them married at an early age. One of Anandi’s younger sisters aged five, is interested in studying. However, unable to walk due to being handicapped, she cannot go to school easily.
Anandi was enrolled in the local government school in Class 1 in 2013. After 3 years of going to school, she refused to go anymore. When her father tried to send her to school again, she started making excuses and would insist on going to the fields to work with her mother.

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