The Difficulties of Being an “Untouchable”Presented by: Mayra Pinedo

What are the difficulties of being treated and casted as

an Untouchable?

?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5JkfYcxiQ8

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The Meaning of Being a Dalit

Employment and Working conditions• Work as slaves

• No shoes• Cannot leave the job because they

need the pay• Do arduous work such as picking

out and cutting stones• Work in very bad weather

conditions• No days off • Child labor

“Equipped with nothing more sophisticated than a brush and bucket or pieces of cardboard, such groups

have cleaned the toilets of higher-caste people, carrying away the waste, or "nightsoil", in baskets

placed on their heads”

Education• Cannot send children to school • Need more money at home• Have to do what family once did• No future

• Parents still have hope, and wish to send their children to school

Poverty-health conditions• Live on less then a dollar a day• Working conditions can affect

health conditions• Work in sewers• Have no protection towards

infectious diseases• Do not go to the doctor so often• Poor medical literacy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5JkfYcxiQ8

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