lilabai in A Sentence

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    Lilabai's husband helps too.

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    Bhagu Memane, Lilabai's husband, adds,“We cannot live only on our own farm produce.

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    Lilabai and her husband Bhagu have nine children- the oldest is 23, the youngest is 4.

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    Lilabai dries fruit from the hirda tree outdoors, and then sells it to traders by the kilo;

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    Through their decades of hard work, Lilabai and her husband have tried to give their children an education.

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    From March to May, Lilabai, like most of the women in Phalode, collects fruit from the hirda trees.

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    Twice a week, Lilabai walks around 10 kilometres to a forest to bring back 7 to 10 kilos of firewood.

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    When Lilabai wakes up by 3 a.m., one of her first tasks is fetching water from a well two kilometres away.

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    Even after working for long hours, Lilabai volunteers to teach the village women at these informal classes, often held in someone's home.

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    When some women were reluctant to take time off from housework to attend the classes, Lilabai went from house to house to talk to them.

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    Everyone at home felt that a son is needed to provide support in old age and so I have eight daughters and one son,” Lilabai says.

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    A few families in the village then cultivate other crops like bajra, and Lilabai and her husband work on their fields as daily wagers when work is available.

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    From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. six days a week, Lilabai is at the state-run anganwadi to cook food for 30 kids and for pregnant women in the village.

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    In March, Lilabai collects the fruit after completing her anganwadi tasks, and when the anganwadi is closed in April and May, she finishes housework and collects hirda from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., along with her daughters.

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