{"id":10313,"date":"2012-07-10T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/street-children-need-your-help\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T06:20:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T00:50:32","slug":"street-children-need-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/street-children-need-your-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Children need your help"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nVineet Aggarwal<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nMahatma Gandhi said that Children are the future on free India. They reflect true picture of what we make of our country and society as a whole. Somewhere in our race to beat others and prove that we are at the helm \u2013 be it in terms of money, power, position and numerous other measures, we have literally forgotten\/ ignored what Bapu said.<\/div>\n
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\nHow many of us tread the path of truth or have the courage and conviction to abide by it \u201cCome what may\u201d.<\/div>\n
\nI quote the state of the street children in Dwarka \u2013 to say the least it is pathetic. It is very common sight to see them at the various traffic signals asking for bheekh<\/i>, in torn and dirty clothes, barely covered backs and holding children smaller than themselves. <\/div>\n
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\nThey are organized gangs<\/b> operating in the sub city now. I share an incident of Rani <\/i>\u2013 who used to sit at one of the crossings in Dwarka – about a fortnight ago – holding a baby (sonu) and asking for money from the passersby, so that sonu can be fed, as he was hungry from days. She herself was about 7 years old.<\/div>\n
\nHer uncle had brought her along from Jodhpur in bus. He was a drunkard and she was now on drugs. The feeding bottle (of the baby) was only used as a show piece, as the money went into buying liquor, beedi<\/i> and drugs. I asked her one day \u2013 does she not want to get out this vicious cycle. She started crying understanding that she has no where to go \u2013 which actually is true. I contemplated on whether anything can be done \u2013 for such victims \u2013 as I am unable to decide \u2013 so I come to Dwarkites \u2013 asking the question \u2013 Can anything be done for such helpless street children?<\/div>\n
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\nHere is my analysis:<\/b><\/div>\n
\nDelhi Police says dial 1090 if you observe \u2013 any such incident, but then the downside is that \u2013 these children will be taken to the \u2018Adolescence Center\u2019, tried in courts and housed in these centers. NGOs also come forward and tread this same path.<\/div>\n
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\nIt is not uncommon to read in the newspapers – that the inmates (for the lack of words) have absconded from such centers because they were physically and mentally abused, put on drugs, forced into prostitution and what not. <\/div>\n
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\nOnly about 0.5%<\/b> of them are able to move onto a barely decent life. A primary reason for this is the apathy of the authorities, who declare their job as \u201cDONE and OVER\u201d \u2013 once these children are put into the Adolescent centers. Why do they not realize the fact that, there are other \u2018more deteriorated childhood cases\u2019 housed in the same center \u2013 who are longer drug addicts, into more evil habits \u2013 who will definitely subject these relatively gullible souls to harsher and more severe torture \u2013 \u2018inside the center. This leaves  them LOST and ERODED on all fronts \u2013 mentally, physically and emotionally.<\/div>\n
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\nWhen thinking about this, I was left with only a single option \u2013 bring Rani<\/i> home. But honestly speaking, how many of us \u2013 if at all – would bring them home \u2013 not to maltreat them as servants. How many of us would actually be willing to give them the status and stability that we give to our children. I accept the fact \u2013 I CAN\u2019T. But can someone show us the path, what can be done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vineet Aggarwal Mahatma Gandhi said that Children are the future on free India. They reflect true picture of what we make of our country and society as a whole. Somewhere in our race to beat others and prove that we are at the helm \u2013 be it in terms of money, power, position and numerous other measures, we have literally forgotten\/ ignored what Bapu said. How many of us tread the path of truth or have the courage and conviction to abide by it \u201cCome what may\u201d. I quote the state of the street children in Dwarka \u2013 to say <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,508,1],"tags":[65,1879],"class_list":["post-10313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-problems-and-issues","category-update","tag-member-article","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52398,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions\/52398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}