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Malti is one of our many kids at Street Smart who regularly attends the program. She is always dressed in a salwar-kameez and arrives everyday with a sack of garbage slung over her shoulder. She dumps the sack near to where we sit in the park, picks up a slate with a sheet of paper […]

The school at Bindal is at a stage where we feel it is relatively settled in that we have space and desks and chairs and teachers. We have an exercise routine following a prayer routine. Then there is the routine of unexpected hurdles, delays, conflicts, confusion, which is as consistent as the school itself. So […]

Kar Kamal fair at Welham Girls was a great experience for us at Street Smart. As I have been gushing about in the past few posts and photo albums, on the morning of April 14 we reached the grounds of Welham Girls at the unholy hour of 8:30 a.m., armed with some wonderful products that […]

Over the last few days we have been running all over the place, getting our products ready for the two-day Kar Kamal Mela at Welha Girls on 14th and 15th. Ergo the delay in updating the blog. We are now finally ALMOST ready for the big show tomorrow and day-after and I have to say, […]

Working with street children comes with the statutory warning of LICE! Lots of it! So a few weeks into the Street Smart program, my nice-smelling strawberry shampoo was replaced by Medicare and two lice-combs stand proudly moved in with my hair brush in its stand. Such is life! So on Saturday, the kids decided they […]