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 CHIP Activities
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 Click on the links below to find a particular case study: China | India | Kyrgyzstan | Mongolia Click on the case study title to read more. China Nan Nan: life in a poor migrant family is toughFourteen-year-old Nan Nan moved to Hefei, the capital of China’s Anhui province, a year ago. She used to live and go to school in a rural part of Anhui, and is finding life in her new school difficult: “I do not like studying at the school in Hefei, I have no friends here, all my friends are ... Xiao Bo: Determined to study hard for a better lifeThirteen-year-old Xiao Bo lives in Chongqing in south-west China, a large city with a population of about 31 million. The community where Xiao Bo lives is relatively far from the city centre, about one and a half hours away by bus. It is situated in an area where, since 1989, the government has b... IndiaPoverty and ill health pushed Banwari out of school and into workSeventeen-year-old Banwari belongs to a poor Bairwa (a scheduled caste) household in a village in Tonk district, which is in the north-westerly Indian state of Rajasthan. Banwari has six brothers and is part of a family of ten. His family owns 6 bighas1 of land, but the ... Nanuram: the schoolboy ice-cream sellerNanuram is 12 years old and lives with his parents in Tonk district, in the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan. Nanuram has two siblings: a brother who is 7 years old and a sister who is 8 years old, both of whom are studying in Class II. His father owns 14 bighas1 o... Laxmi: married at 10, and aspiring to become a teacherSixteen-year-old Laxmi is the most educated girl in her village in Tonk district, in the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan. She is also the first girl who learnt how to ride a bicycle. In recognition of her academic achievement, Laxmi was given a bicycle by a NGO (non-governmental org... KyrgyzstanZarina: migrant child worker dreams of becoming a teacher13-year-old Zarina was in the 7th grade when her parents decided it would be best for her to leave school and migrate to live with better off relatives. In January 2004, she moved to a suburb of Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, where she lives with her uncle’s family. While her uncle and aun... Bakyt: Missing out on school and play because of povertyBakyt is an 11-year-old boy living in southern Kyrgyzstan, in a town called Kokyangak. During the Soviet period, coal mining was the town’s main industry, but it is now dying out. Kokyangak is situated among the mountains, where there is very little land that is suitable for agricultural ... MongoliaChildren in Rural Eastern Mongolia Talk About Their LivesIn Khalkhgol soum, Dornod Aimag (Eastern Mongolia), the CHIP Mongolia Team talked to a group of out-of-school children to find out more about their lives and their views. The group comprised 5 boys and 4 girls aged between and 11 and 15 years. Most of them had now started school recently, either... |
  Photo: Kyrgyzstan CHIP team
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