An Indian girl takes notes from a blackboard at an open school at Ramsnehi Ghat...

An Indian girl takes notes from a blackboard at an open school at Ramsnehi Ghat in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on January 8. Until 1991 nearly 40 percent of the schools in India did not have a concrete building and 47.9 percent of the country's 930 million people cannot read or write their names, count up to 100 or even recognise signs, the bare minimum necessary for them to be listed as literate. Every child in India is considered an extra earning hand. Families often do not approve of spending money on education, they would rather have the child work and contribute to the family income.