From a conversation with my maid..

..I learnt that her most common ailments are a cold or some minor injuries she used to get while playing.She hasn't ever attented a school and bears no regrets about it. She has learnt needle work from her aunt and her father which she thinks is enough learning for her to get along just fine even if she stopped working as a housemaid. She just got married last year to a man of her choice she shyly admits.She doesn't play anymore, so now her only common ailment is a common cold she says with pride.
When i ask her about children, she says she'll have them only when her in-laws insist on it. Does she plan to educate them,i ask her to which she says- her husband is educated and all the other children in the household go to schools, so she will have to send her children to school too maybe.
Everyone in her family goes to Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital whenever they feel there is a need for more medication than what the local private clinic can provide. It also happens to be the same hospital that the PHC in my area refers medical cases to. She is the new maid my mother just got.
From a conversation with my maid, i learnt that she is a very cool maid :) she is just 19 years old.
Though I think she would've had a slightly different story to tell me had she been educated. Probably confident enough to open her own little shop as a tailor. When i had asked her why she hasn't done that yet, she said that all the women in the family she has gotten married into,besides her mother in law, do the same work as her and opening a shop will mean keeping accounts, she doesn't know how to that.