Meet Kanan T, from Kolkata, India! She is one of my youngest sponsored children- she is 6 years old. Her birthday is July 9, 2004. Kanan is 3'4" tall and weighs about 30 lbs, which seems teeny tiny for a 6 year old, but then again, I'm going off American standards. Other sponsors who have experience sponsoring Indian girls have said that it's actually pretty average for a just-turned-6-year-old girl in India. (By contrast, my sponsored child Henry Daniel, from Honduras, is 2'10" tall and weighs 30 lbs as well. Henry Daniel is two years old.)
Kanan lives with her parents and her four siblings. Father Rajesh is a daily worker, and mother Rina is a homemaker. Kanan has two older sisters, Jyoti (11) and Arati (9), and an older brother, Rahul (7). She also has a twin sister, Kanak! The family lives on an income of about $53 a month. They speak Hindi. The home they live in consists of one multi-use room, with walls, floor, and roof all of concrete. Cooking is done on a kerosene stove, water is from community faucets, and the sanitary facility is a community latrine. Kanan sleeps on the floor with a mat. Electricity is available.
Kanan attends school, where her favorite subjects are languages. At home, she is too young for chores, but in her free time she likes drawing and playing with friends.
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