India, Aug. 2 -- Forty-year-old Arvind Shah's family has been rendered more than homeless by the collapse of the building in which they lived. "It has threatened the one dream I had spent my entire working life trying to protect - that my children should never have to live the life I did," said Shah. An orphan since birth, Shah came to Mumbai from Bihar at the age of 17 and has worked as a power loom worker ever since. Shah, who lived in the Kohinoor Building for nearly 11 years, said a significant part of his home had collapsed. He said that all the years of hard labour taught him one lesson - the cycle of poverty can only be broken through education. But Friday's tragedy has thrown his children's education into uncertainty. His three children are enrolled in a private English school, which has stretched the family's finances. Their eldest daughter Komal, a Class 9 student at Romeo English High School, dreams of becoming an engineer. "He has only one dream that we study hard and succeed in our life," said Komal. His wife Sunita Devi, 31, said she cares less about their lost possessions than the road ahead. Without a home and with little money to spare, she fears they may no longer be able to afford to keep their children in school. "We have lost our home and our belongings. We don't know what will happen now. My children won't be able to go to school for some months. We have to start from scratch," she said. When the building collapsed, they escaped but nearly half of the family's belongings like jewellery and important documents remain trapped beneath the debris...