Girls traditionally spend their days doing household chores - collecting water from the borehole, making meals, cleaning and looking after younger siblings. But in many households that has changed, say villagers, due to the Pudhu Vaazhvu project.
"Before I struggled to send my children to school, even food was a problem," says Latta Gubendran, mother of three, whose 19-year-old daughter, Divya, works at Intimate Fashions and earns a monthly salary of 7,000 rupees ($130).
"Divya earns more than I thought possible. My two younger girls can go to school and we have bought a fridge, a television and even tiled our floors in our house. She is like the son I never had. She brings me and my family respect."
as you know those in India do not get the wages of the american worker..
