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Indian children run over an incomplete model of a large male figure based on the character Lemuel Gulliver from the classic novel Gulliver's Travels, which was being used to teach youths about bodily functions, and had been receiving foreign funds for its completion, at the Navsarjan Trust's centre in Nani Devti village near Ahmedabad on December 23, 2016. An Indian charity running schools for Dalit children will close down after the government banned it from receiving foreign funds over alleged threats to national unity, officials said December 23. “We had no option left as foreign funding was the major source of running our operations”, Martin Macwan, managing trustee of the charity founded in 1988, told AFP. Charities, especially foreign-backed aid organisations like Greenpeace India, have come under increased scrutiny since a Hindu nationalist government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP Photo)
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