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Temporarily Deserted Street!
Two days back, I was walking back from Street Smart to where my scooter was parked and I see two of our kids, Rajkumar and Sunita- who also happen to be siblings and are the only homeless ones among the bunch- walking around and sniffing diluter. I give several disapproving looks to the duo, who … Read more
Green Street Smart, Clean Street Smart: We Hope!
Today was a great day in terms of art as well as in terms of moving forward! Right across from where we hold Street Smart right now, is Gandhi Park. This is a huge, enclosed space- lush green obviously since it is a park- and an absolute waste of brilliant potential, seeing as how the … Read more
The Missing Piece
With whatever development India did after liberalization and all of that jazz, us people suddenly became rich and maddeningly rushed into the middle-class slot. It was great! We all now had television sets and refrigerators and cars and many other comforts and luxuries. Money could buy so much happiness! Who would…
The Same New!
Saturdays is Shani Daan day and all our kids were walking around with bowls of mustard oil with a steel man who I am told is supposed to be the Shivji from Hindu mythology. Shani Daan works well for us because by the time we reach for class, the kids have earned enough in the mornings and so spend more time with…
Doc Visits Street Smart!
While at the shelter, we were also able to get Naina, Sunita and Gautam to brush their teeth and they spent the rest of the day baring their tobacco-stained dentures!
Happy Little Tents!
To begin with, we were appalled when the weather turned for worse recently. Thankfully, a wonderful organization SOIR-IM that is based in Sweden but works in 15 countries worldwide ( http://www.manniskohjalp.se/en/Where-we-work/Where-we-work/South-Asia/Indien/ ) provided us with general-purpose tents to provide…
Day 14 And 15: We Need More!
Street Smart started fifteen days ago with a vague idea of what we would be working on, with the street children at Astley Hall in Dehradun. We started out with painting and art, and it has been going great so far. However, we are losing the connection that we had established with these children when we had started…
Day 13: Aao, Khao, Jao!
The weather is going wild here! It started pouring yesterday and we had a bit of hailstone as well yesterday and today and I was up half the night going crazy thinking about how the kids and their families would be. So owing to bad weather and the fact that we work outside, we skipped school today and instead…
Day 11 And 12: The Bird’s Eye View
I am writing about yesterday, as promised yesterday but I am cheating a little bit by adding the descriptions as a little part of the main, Day 12 post. The reason for this is one, I was not present and two, well I am desperate to describe what I believe is an important step that we took today.
