WEEKLY BULLETIN: 13 FEBRUARY 2015

France baby-swap families win damages
(France)
As Hugh Schofield reports, the swap was only discovered when one of the girls felt she
did not look like her father. The families of two French girls who were accidentally
switched at birth 20 years ago have been awarded nearly €2m (£1.5m) in damages. The
clinic involved in the mix-up was ordered to compensate both girls - now women - their
parents and siblings. Both babies had been treated in the same incubator and were then
given to the wrong parents. Although the error was discovered 10 years ago, neither family
has wanted to swap the girls back. On Tuesday, the court in Grasse, southern France,
ordered the clinic in Cannes to pay €400,000 to each of the girls. Read the full story at :
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31350550.
Project launched to ensure children of sugarcane
factory workers attend school.
(India)
When the kids are small and both the parents work, the kids are taken along and they lose
out on education. Pune division’s Women and Child Development department has recently
started a pilot project in Solapur to increase enrollment of children of sugarcane workers
in schools. The project includes making school leaving certificates easily available to
making local people take responsibility of the kids. The department intends to spread the
project to other districts too.“What we are trying to do is create an all-inclusive set-up of
Anganwadi sevikas, school headmasters and a special group of people called ‘bal mitra’
(friends of children) aware about the situation of these sugarcane factory workers. Once
the community in the area decides to help these people, then there will be better chances
of education among the students,” said R S Patil, deputy commissioner, Women and Child
Development. Read the full article at http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/projectlaunched-to-ensure-children-of-sugarcane-factory-workers-attend-school/.