Asmita Lokhande

In a world where a child’s biggest burden is to bear the weight of her schoolbag and the biggest worry is to study, play and to manage to eat 3 meals a day. Asmita on the other hand has to carry the weight of the household and has to worry if she would be able to provide even one square meal a day to her sick mother. Asmita used to work at a brick factory as a wage laborer at the age of 10. 13 years old, Asmita Lokhande has to shoulder such responsibilities that no child of this age should ever be concerned about. Her day starts at 3 in the morning. The time usually spent by children daydreaming and building their own little fairy tales is the time which Asmita is jarred into the harsh reality where she builds a brick fort by keeping the hot, newly made bricks one after the other in such a tight formation that there is no room for light or dreams to penetrate through. Her work consists of catching the newly made bricks thrown at her and then lining them up .It’s almost like playing ball but here there is no room for mistakes for if she drop the bricks, she either faces the danger of injuring herself or faces the wrath of her father provided of course that the fatal smoke constantly being brewed up underneath the factory doesn’t get to her first. Since she is living at Mann Deshi, Asmita’s life has taken a turn. In the first year she won silver medal at the district wrestling games. Asmita aims to become a MMA fighter and support her family financially.

• Event Wrestling
• Achievement District