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It was a cloudy winter afternoon in 2013. The SEEDS team was assessing the Chakra ward in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. There were a few children playing in the murky waterlogged areas. One of them was 10-year-old Manoj, who was running a small stationery shop. The school there was an informal settlement in a riverbed. There were no permanent structures were allowed. A few parents enrolled their children in schools across the highway, more than 2 km away. But it meant crossing the National Highway, which was infamous for accidents. The end result: Most children stayed at home.
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