Case Studies
And her longing for school
TWINKLE JENA
And her longing for school
11-year-old Twinkle Jena, a student of class 5th, from Raipur village in the Manika Gram Panchayat in Krushnaprasad block of Odisha.
She had found her world devastated in the aftermath of Cyclone Fani, she lost her books, pens, and pencils. Twinkle just like many other children tried to collect her books and pens and pencils and other study materials from the rubbles of the house. She was inconsolable as she couldn’t retrieve a single pen or a page from the house. It took her many days to collect old books from her seniors as it was still summer and she had thought to start her studies earlier than many of her classmates. Nobody was there to console her as the entire world around her was looking devastated.
Days passed by, Twinkle was feeling the pressure of monotony as the school opening days were getting shifted and in spite of several requests her father had did not buy her a drawing book or even a small notebook as they didn’t have enough money.
RANI
Uncertainity and hopelessness
Rani is an 11th class student living in a remote village in Brahmagiri block in Puri, Odisha, India. She lost her house, her school, her books, all her belongings after cyclone FANI had hit the coastal districts of the state of Odisha, India on the morning of 3rd May, 2019. Almost a week after the fury, Rani, her six siblings and her parents are staying at the RabanaNuguan, Middle School.
Rani’s father has a small grocery shop in the hamlet the family stayed in. With eight people to feed in the family after the cyclone her father can hardly make two ends meet. To add to their worries, Rani’s mother being a cancer patient needs constant attention.
With minimal food support extended in the cyclone shelter, the family like many other families is facing a hard time. While formal relief is yet to reach the population at ground zero, the fate of at least half a million households across three districts of Odisha is indeed a gloomy one. Children are greatly affected by this tragedy as with no educational support, and minimal livelihood, the fear of rampant child trafficking, child marriage and children getting engaged as child labour is looming large.
