Family on the Fringes Sees Hope in 7-Year-Old

7-year-old Farmaan poses for a photograph near his home, a wooden fruit vendor's cart, in New Delhi, India, on Jan. 18, 2019. Altaf Qadri/AP Photo

NEW DELHI—Someday, the family says, the 7-year-old will save them.

“I’ll fight,” the boy’s mother said when her husband insisted their son start working. She vowed he would stay in school, no matter what.