{"id":10828,"date":"2025-11-19T21:26:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/education-for-girls-in-rural-india-hit-hard-as-wells-dry-up-in-extreme-heat\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:26:32","slug":"education-for-girls-in-rural-india-hit-hard-as-wells-dry-up-in-extreme-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/education-for-girls-in-rural-india-hit-hard-as-wells-dry-up-in-extreme-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Education for girls in rural India hit hard as wells dry up in extreme heat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NANDUBAR (India), Nov 19 — Each morning, 17-year-old Ramati Mangla sets off barefoot with a steel pot in hand, walking several kilometres to fetch water from a distant spring in India’s Maharashtra state.<\/p>\n

By the time she returns, school has already started.<\/p>\n

“I have kept my books,” she said. “But what if I never get a chance to go back?”<\/p>\n

In the drought-hit villages of Maharashtra’s Nashik and Nandurbar districts, wells are drying up and rainfall has become increasingly erratic—forcing families to adapt to harsher living conditions.<\/p>\n

As men migrate to nearby cities in search of work, girls like Mangla are left to take on the responsibility of collecting water.<\/p>\n

It’s a chore that can take hours each day and leaves little time for school.<\/p>\n

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Local officials estimate that nearly two million people in these regions face daily water shortages.g<\/p>\n

A 2021 Unesco report warned that climate-related disruptions could push millions of girls worldwide out of classrooms.<\/p>\n

It is a pattern already visible across India’s rural heartlands.<\/p>\n

Teachers say attendance among girls has sharply dropped in recent years, particularly during the dry months.<\/p>\n

Many families, struggling to survive, see no option but to keep their daughters home or marry them early.<\/p>\n

“Children living in drought prone areas, with family responsibilities for fetching water, struggle with attending school regularly—as collecting water now takes a longer time due to water scarcity and pollution,” the UN children’s fund wrote in a report.<\/p>\n

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For Mangla, and many other girls across India, climate change is turning the simple act of fetching water into a choice between survival and education.<\/p>\n

Mangla’s story has been spotlighted alongside a photography series shot by Shefali Rafiq for the 2025 Marai Photo Grant, an award open to photographers from South Asia aged 25 or under.<\/p>\n

The theme for 2025 was “climate change” and its impact on daily life and the community of the photographers who enter.<\/p>\n

The award is organised by Agence France-Presse in honour of Shah Marai, the former photo chief at AFP’s Kabul bureau.<\/p>\n

Shah Marai, who was an inspiration for Afghan photographers throughout his career, was killed in the line of duty at the age of 41 in a suicide attack on April 30, 2018, in Kabul. — AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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NANDUBAR (India), Nov 19 — Each morning, 17-year-old Ramati Mangla sets off barefoot with a steel pot in hand, walking several kilometres to fetch water from a distant spring in India’s Maharashtra state. By the time she returns, school has already started. “I have kept my books,” she said. “But what if I never get…<\/p>\n

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