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The Hindu, in association with Birkbeck, University of London, and the Centre for Law Policy and Human Rights Studies, Chennai, announces a national photo competition ‘The Working Elderly’.

Research undertaken by Birkbeck, University of London, and the Centre for Law, Policy and Human Rights Studies, Chennai, has found that elderly people work in every sector of Chennai’s economy, particularly in low-paid work. Typically their work is invisible or denigrated and their status as workers is unacknowledged. Research into the work of the elderly people across the country is negligible — generally because it is assumed that old people are not working.

The aim of the contest is to reverse this situation by uncovering the work of the elderly people across the country, revealing the diversity of their work and demonstrating their contribution to family, society and economy through their determination and endurance.

From Caritas India we have also submitted a photograph (titled: closed doors-Darwaza Band hein) from the field of JEEVIKA ( Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh), we request you to log on to http://thne.ws/12zh5hE and vote for Caritas India photograph and also share this for more votings! At present we are having the maximum vote , lets continue to vote for the photograph from our own field and lets make our photograph to advocate for brining change in life of old age people.

Hope for maximum votes!