Experience a situation that every 5 minutes, a child arrives alone at a railway station in India. The survey conducted by RCI says in 2015 indicates that over 1.2 lakh children found/arrived alone near 32 stations across all 16 railway zones and this continues from year to year. These children constantly face all sorts of risks, even death, while living at and around a railway station and end up working as rag pickers primarily. These children migrate unsafely from various states to Delhi for reasons like attraction to cities, employment and peer group influence, deciding to leave families due to abuse situation, lack of food and poverty.
Most people in India cannot get their two-time meals properly, sleep on the side of the road and wear dirty and old clothes. Poverty is a condition in which people are deprived of the daily basic necessities of life such as primary health care, healthy nutritious food, education, clothes, shelter and other essential things.
Large numbers of people living in slums are illiterate and this too is a major cause of concern. Though some initiatives are seen but no major outcome is felt at grassroots level regarding poverty reduction. Poverty is increasing drastically in urban India due to an increase in urban population as people from rural areas prefer to migrate to cities and towns to get employment for better financial gains.
Some measures that can play a big role in solving the problem of poverty are: proper and adequate support and facilities for good agriculture to make it profitable. Unemployed or underpaid should be given necessary training for livelihood for a better life, better employment opportunities followed by a proper family planning ecosystem to keep a check for the increasing population and thus poverty.
It even forces young children to work at a low cost in compromising and severely inhumane conditions (even when we leave human trafficking aside for a moment despite the reality how big a problem this has been) and help their family financially rather than going to school. It has various effects such as poor diet and nutrition, child labour, poor housing, poor lifestyle, unemployment, poor sanitation, etc.
We believe need based counseling, support for de-addiction and enroll them back into schools by providing them basic education, etiquette and support them is a must, our society must protect innocent children and support them with shelter, food and education and either ensure sustainable restoring them back to their families or care homes.
Since we all are aware that poor people cannot arrange for basic needs due to lack of money which creates a huge difference between rich and poor. Rich people getting rich and poor people becoming poor is something we often talk about, in a country where millions of people live below the poverty line and around 50 million are at the threshold level of the poverty in urban areas, it is very important to solve the problem of poverty instead of talking about it.
We support the ecosystem of helping deprived children through our initiatives and follow up with rehabilitated children to see that the how the conditions that were responsible for children sufferings can be addressed and imply family strengthening programme through counseling, wherever possible. This has enabled children access to formal education and sociolegal support services, link them to livelihood training under social protection schemes.
Humbled with the work of our volunteers, associates, contributors and the communities we're involved with, our endeavor to support the ecosystem of helping deprived children and underprivileged is scaling at grassroot. Our team of committed individuals and organisations call people for association from all walks of life as we firmly believe, Together We Can.
