Meet Kailashi: Overcoming illiteracy & polio in rural India - a READ Global video

Описание: At the age of two, in rural India, Kailashi was infected with polio. As a result, she was stigmatized in her community and taunted by her peers, so she dropped out of school. She was married at age 16, but wasn't fully accepted by her husband's family because she was illiterate and couldn't earn an income to support the family. Listen to Kailashi's tale of overcoming illiteracy and disability by learning to read and sew through her local READ Center.

Although polio was declared officially eradicated from India in March 2014, Millions of polio survivors still face discrimination and continue to live with the disabling consequences of polio.