Category : Street Smart Diaries
We need to establish legal identities for our street children. They currently do not exist on paper.
Staffing for projects like ours is always difficult. We require not just the skill set for the job in question but empathy with our children who come from such difficult backgrounds. So, just when you think you have everyone in place and things are running smoothly for the moment, you reach behind and pat yourself […]
NAINA…..Our Failure Or Our Hope? When we walked into the shelter yesterday, we were greeted by the shy, embarrassed smile of 9 year old Adi, & a shifty, condescending leer from 11 year old Bhola, younger siblings of Naina, our ‘star queen’! Naina had come in only to bathe. To explain I’ll go back a […]
JUDGE PEOPLE BY THEIR BEST, NOT THEIR WORST Each day is life in miniature. You wake up to a new day of laughter, sorrow, joy, disappointments, hope, despair. This has been driven home to me more soundly since the inception of Street Smart, more than a year ago. We never know what the children have […]
Our outreach programme continues unabated to bring more children under our fold. This is one of the toughest tasks faced by us. Convincing parents / ring leaders to change the course of a child’s life from that of a pitied beggar to one of a semi-skilled worker, living a life of dignity, has been an […]
