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प्रश्न
What do Prashant and other volunteers resist the plan to set up institutions for orphans and widows? What alternatives do they consider?
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उत्तर
Prashant and the other volunteers resisted the plan to set up institutions for orphans and widows because they felt that in such institutions, children would grow up without love and the widows would suffer from stigma and loneliness. Prashant’s group believed that orphans should be resettled in their community itself, possibly in new foster families made up of childless widows and children without adult care.
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