Ladrymbai, India A crane lifts miners out of a 300-foot-deep mine shaft.
Ladrymbai, India The wages offered for mining coal lures many children to leave school and work.
Ladrymbai, India A boy carries coal to be crushed as he works at a coal depot.
Ladrymbai, India Workers cross a bridge to load coal onto a truck.
Ladrymbai, India Twelve-year-old Abdul Kayum carries coal to be crushed.
Ladrymbai, India A miner makes his way through a tunnel.
Khliehriat, India Prabhat Sinha, 38, unloads coal that he carried from inside of a mine shaft.
Ladrymbai, India Workers load coal onto trucks at a coal depot.
Ladrymbai, India Miners wash as they break for lunch.
Ladrymbai, India Children walk through a coal depot on their way home from school.
Ladrymbai, India Workers make their way home after a shift in the mines.
Ladrymbai, India Inebriated young workers loiter near a coal depot.
Ladrymbai, India Kala Rai, 13, attends an English grammar class at the Biateraim Presbyterian Church school.
She worked in the mines for six months but was able to to return to school.
Ladrymbai, India Coal trucks pass through the town.
Ladrymbai, India Coal trucks and other vehicles move through town after being delayed by a traffic accident.
Ladrymbai, India People gather in a market to gamble on a dice game.
