Londor

The story of an ex-nomad tribe that used to recollect their own food, now obliged to beg and how they survive

 

by Bernardo Buendia

The people of ‘Londor’, like most of both, recognized and non recognized Scheduled Tribes of India, has been isolated by the government, repelled by a major part of society and deprived from education and real useful jobs. According to the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, this is the story of at least 8% percent of India’s total population which translates to more than 84 million people that swim against the tide surviving a huge social stigma and bearing a life with less than a dollar a day, most times earned by begging and doing unskilled jobs for the government.