Tinku Sheikh: Migrant worker who became a CJP Grassroots Fellow Introducing our new Grassroots fellow
28, Dec 2020 | CJP Team
CJP is proud to introduce its newest grassroots fellow Tinku Sheikh. Growing up in poverty, Tinku managed to study till the 8th standard before he moved to Mumbai as a daily wage worker. During the lockdown, when Tinku was facing tremendous difficulty, CJP came in touch with him amid our ‘CJP against hunger’ campaign.
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Meet Tinku Sheikh:
Tinku Sheikh had first come in contact with Citizens of Justice and Peace (CJP) in April 2020, the CJP volunteers had been helping migrant workers stranded in Mumbai, in the wake of the sudden Covid-19 lockdown. Tinku had reached out and sought emergency supplies on behalf of five other workers. On the resumption of interstate travel, Tinku went back home to West Bengal and documented the journey. Second of three brothers Tinku had realised it won’t be possible to continue his education beyond class 8, the family’s economic condition was bad and he left to look for work in Mumbai in 2010. Then the lockdown struck, Tinku has been at home in West Bengal ever since, but is yet to find work. The 27-year-old Sheikh has a young wife and a 4-year-old daughter, and aged parents to support. The CJP fellowship 2020 hopes Tinku Sheikh will help him chronicle and share the real stories of workers like him who feel they have been betrayed by the political class. The end of the lockdown, is just the beginning of this story.
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