Word: rubina
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...Colson to provide shelter, education and health care support for the two young stars of their award-winning movie. Lade visits the school three times a week to check on the children's progress, and she says that for the past six months, their attendance has been steadily dipping. "Rubina has 28% attendance, while Azhar has 37%. They didn't even sit for their last examination," Lade says. (See pictures of Slumdog director Danny Boyle...
...tells TIME that "Rubina's attendance was low as she had burned her foot. I couldn't inform the school on time. But I went and apologized later, and requested them not to make an issue out of this. I don't understand why such a big deal is being made out of this." Azhar's mother Shamim says her son has missed school because of his father's death from tuberculosis in September. "These are all rumors," she insists. "A little irregularity has been blown up. Despite the fact that the school is quite far from where we live...
Lade has been counseling the children and their families for the past few months, and she says their behavior is often rude. "I would be talking to Rubina, but she will talk to someone else or do something else, her body language making it clear that she has no interest in what I am saying. Azhar will often cut in rudely while I am talking to his mother, trying to get her away from talking to me." Shamim maintains that Azhar's rudeness is just "immaturity." She says, "He is finding it difficult to cope with his father's death...
...Azhar have moved into a new 250 sq. ft. apartment in Santa Cruz West, Ali has refused to move out of the slum, saying that 2,500,000 rupees ($50,000) is not enough to buy a flat. "I wanted to live in Bandra, as it is near to Rubina's school and I don't want her to travel a lot to get to school every day. Can you get a flat in Bandra for that amount? I asked them to increase the budget a little bit, to around 4,000,000 rupees ($80,000) so that I could...
...hope that their ongoing efforts will help to ensure a happy and stable future for our two young stars," he said in a statement. "For that to happen, the children's families will, however, need to honor their part of the bargain, and we are disappointed that Azhar and Rubina's school attendance remains patchy...