Muneeswari tells her visitors that she gets paid Rs 100. "For a day?" she is asked. "No, for a week. I work from 7 am to 6 pm," she says. She is an important breadwinner for her family of five. Suhasini (13) makes 4,000 match boxes a day from 8 am to 5 pm and gets paid Rs 40. The Manitham activists claim that while the district administration says that there are only 1,700 children working, there could easily be 100,000 children toiling in the fireworks and matches factory blatantly ignoring safety precautions.
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