The Underprivileged
Posted by: jisha in planning, homeless, children on
Jan 31, 2009
What are your basic needs as a child? Answer might be- food, safe water to drink, a house where you are secure enough to live, good clothes to wear and education to learn new things. Now, think for a moment about the children who are deprived of all these basic necessities of life. India has a population of 1 billion with about 35 million orphans, many of whom live on the streets, in railway stations and in filthy areas, taking each day as it comes. Some children have been orphaned or abandoned by their parents or relatives, others have chosen to run away from the harsher realities at home. Yet there are some others who have been born on the streets and knows no other life.
This is a world of 'Street Children' which most of us close our eyes to. These children do not know where they are going. They lead and live an incomplete life. Most of these children might have never experienced the parental care and may never know what care and concern is. Due to various circumstances they are left on the street and survives, if the world they live in shows any mercy on them. Every child has the right to grow up in a family environment- in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding. Millions of street children around the world are denied of this right.
What makes these children homeless? There are many reasons behind this, mainly poverty. The most trecherous disease HIV/ AIDS has a great part in contributing to the number of orphaned children in India. Violence at home or other internal conflicts that in turn creates a mental trauma to the child also add to this cause. Children who are born illegally are also deserted onto the street. All the above stated reasons are what makes them and stigmatize as “The Underprivileged”.
This is a world of 'Street Children' which most of us close our eyes to. These children do not know where they are going. They lead and live an incomplete life. Most of these children might have never experienced the parental care and may never know what care and concern is. Due to various circumstances they are left on the street and survives, if the world they live in shows any mercy on them. Every child has the right to grow up in a family environment- in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding. Millions of street children around the world are denied of this right.
What makes these children homeless? There are many reasons behind this, mainly poverty. The most trecherous disease HIV/ AIDS has a great part in contributing to the number of orphaned children in India. Violence at home or other internal conflicts that in turn creates a mental trauma to the child also add to this cause. Children who are born illegally are also deserted onto the street. All the above stated reasons are what makes them and stigmatize as “The Underprivileged”.
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