“E-mails started to pour in the next morning,†Sonia Faleiro wrote in The Opinion Pages of The New York Times describing the response to her article in India Ink about “a family's daily life in the impoverished eastern state of Bihar.â€
After their mother died of starvation three years ago, the children, Meena, 10, her brother Sunil, 11, and the eldest 14-year-old Anil, were left to fend for themselves. Anil, driven by the desperate poverty found work in a brick kiln in a neighboring state.
A record producer in Los Angeles “offered to pay all three children's education and living expenses until they turned 18, an amount equal to $1,200 per year,†Ms. Fa leiro wrote.
“It was an opportunity of a lifetime. Why, then, did the children's relatives refuse to let them take it?,†she said.
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