[inexplicable]

While this is true... the significant factor here is that these children are saving.

If there were no saving, the money would have been spent/stolen/taken almost for certain. I can understand the feeling of the boy who saved ₹4000 in 7 months. Given the living standards and challenges these children face, it would have impossible to have even a quarter of that left over in 7 months.

Edit: added the rupee symbol

[praxulus]

I'm definitely not saying they shouldn't be saving. The (now deleted) comment I replied to was awed by the high savings rate the kids were getting, 5%. I was just putting it in perspective.