Street Children

Launched by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and NGO Save the Children, the project aims to cover five states in two years.

Using mediums like movies, plays, sports, music, art, and humour, Picture Wala organises workshops in slum areas and opens the window to creativity for children in such areas.

Jamghat is a Delhi-based organisation that brings street children into the mainstream by providing them with resources and helping them stand on their own feet.

Visha Suchde tweeted an image of the numerous packets of Parle G that she stocks up in her car so she can give them to impoverished children.

Satish Pawar’s family came to Mumbai from Beed district in Maharashtra in the year 1997 with the hope of finding work in the big city and building a better future for themselves. But little did they know that they’d have to spend their lives on the streets for years and generations to come.

Angel Xpress Foundation connects people who want to do constructive social work with less privileged children who want to learn. The volunteers teach municipal school children in public spaces like parks or promenades for 2-3 hours a day.

Elizabeth Sholtys believes in giving and teaching street children more than just the basics. She treats them like she would her own children and this has earned her the love of 200 slum kids who call her Ashraya centre their second home.

A newspaper written and published by street children in Delhi helps them tell their stories and fight for their rights. Balaknama is, literally, the 'voice of children.'

Five street children from Chennai represented team India at the Street Child Games in Rio. They won a total of five medals, including one gold by Hepsiba for the 100 metre dash.

A 7-year-old girl was found begging in Dehradun in 2011. She had only one arm and leg, and was the sole breadwinner in her family. Today, she has a prosthetic leg, is a brilliant student of Class 5, and writes beautiful songs. All thanks to one Dehradun-based organisation.