{"id":24608,"date":"2020-11-10T15:45:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T06:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/nov\/10\/from-schoolboy-to-tea-seller-covid-poverty-forces-indias-children-into-work"},"modified":"2020-11-10T15:45:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T06:45:01","slug":"from-schoolboy-to-tea-seller-covid-poverty-forces-indias-children-into-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24608","title":{"rendered":"From schoolboy to tea seller: Covid poverty forces India\u2019s children into work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pandemic has pushed millions of urban poor into crisis \u2013 and left children struggling to help their families survive<\/p>\n<p>Subhan Shaikh used to start the day with a cup of cinnamon-flavoured tea, brought to him by his mother, Sitara, before he got ready for school. But the lockdown in March brought her salary as a school bus attendant to an end, and providing food \u2013 never mind tea \u2013 for Subhan, 14, and his two younger sisters, became a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Today, life for Subhan revolves around tea, which has become a lifeline for his family. After seeing his mother struggle, Subhan decided to do something and became a tea seller on the streets of Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/nov\/10\/from-schoolboy-to-tea-seller-covid-poverty-forces-indias-children-into-work\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pandemic has pushed millions of urban poor into crisis \u2013 and left children struggling to help their families surviveSubhan Shaikh used to start the day with a cup of cinnamon-flavoured tea, brought to him by his mother, Sitara, before he got ready &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,59,62,958,79,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-india","category-poverty","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24609,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24608\/revisions\/24609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}