Dear ,Funastic, I would like to do this in Mumbai. Please join together.RegardsJ. Kumaresan2008/9/22 Natarajan Raman <natadreams@gmail.com >
Dear All,
Glad to see a discussion on this topic. I am writing this on behalf of the NGO, Dream India, run by my friends and myself. At Dream India Pune Chapter, we started our action against the child begging one and half years ago. Till date we have conducted six Anti Child Begging Campaign [ ACBC ] in the Pune city and have reached 3000+ people with the message of Anti-Child begging.
Points covered:
Some snaps and videos of the event:
- We made pamphlets and posters on ACBC.
- Informed people NOT to give money to kids just for their satisfaction. Told them how indirectly they are encouraging them to go on with Child begging.
- Told them about the 5 residential schools being run by PMC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=s46zYnFS- WM
http://picasaweb.google.com/ ramdhavepreetam/ ACBCPhoto? authkey=_ ttvY_gstP0
http://picasaweb.google.com/ grovershah/ Campaign
http://picasaweb.google.com/ grovershah/ 2008_03_30_ acbc#
We have plans to conduct a entire city covered campaign. Soon would take this forward to other cities like Chennai, Bangalore etc. Please do let us know if any of you can conduct the same at your cities. We promise you to provide all possible support. All the best.
Regards,
Natarajan
Dream India
www.dreamindia2020.org
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:08 PM, vidya shankar <relieffoundation@hotmail.com > wrote:
Dear Friends
I completely agree with Navin. I have worked as a Chairperson of the Child Welfare committee and also as a member ot eh Juvenile Justice Board. I have found that these children are used extensively by adults and then they graduate into petty offences and then slowly into gang operations in early adolescence. They turn into ruthless youth and enter the criminal justice system soon.
Lets pledge to do more for providing quality care and education for children, and create public awareness on Anti Child Beggary campaign which is a need of the hour.
Regards
Vidya Shankar
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From: navingulia@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:34:52 -0700
Subject: [India_Vision_2020] ADAA - plight of beggar children
sorry, my earlier mail developed some faults
In my work with street children/beggar children, I have found that there are four types of beggar children.
1. Those who beg to supplement their income by earning an additional 100-200Rs a day. I am not addressing them.
2. Those who beg in front of temples or for other religious reasons like shanidev. They collect quiet a fortune, in fact they have their areas distributed and powerstruggles and fights to maintain supremacy and control over these areas. I am not addressing them.
3. Those children who come to beg because of their need and their own wish to beg. They will take coins given by you and buy something for themselves to eat/wear. This is an imaginary kind of beggar kids which exists only in the mind of common man. I have not yet met a child who falls in this category.
4. Large nuumber of toddlers, infants, babies, small kids, who live with some elders who may/maynot be their parents. They are kept dirty, naked, starved and sent to beg in the hot sun and the extreme cold. They are gold mines. They are able to extract coins even from the soul less people. At times the coins come because the person giving it wants the dirty thing to go away from him at the earliest. The coins they collect are taken away by elders who are into alchohol, drugs, cheap prostitution and the kind. Thanks to the coins(which today are useless for the affluent class and an ideal thing to give away to satisfy an urge of charity), thanks to these coins coming in, these people are encouraged to have/arrange maximum kids and infants.
Since no one would give coins to a covered, clean and well fed child, it is anybody's guess how these kids will be kept.
Have you seen a small baby at a traffic crossing lying on the muddy footpath, covered in mud, even his eyes are stuck from not cleaning and another 5-7yr old kid shuffing an empty dirty milk bottle into that baby's mouth. Such a scene forces even the most affluent to pull down the powerwindow of their luxury sedan and take a hand out to give some coins before quickly drwaing it back in. Ensuring that the kid is kept in that very condition and more such kids are arranged. Alas! The poor baby would never know that he was born to die in a dead society of dead people.
No, I don't want to use harsh words but if I don't will I be heard??? In these age with people obsessed with spicy, news stories and bollywood movies which are merely a product of a director's fantacy. In this age of sensation creating news and votebank politics. Will the silent voice of these kids be heard?????
1. Please don't give coins to begging kids. If possible give food/clothes.
2. If you see a child being exploited please raise your voice.
3. It is an ADAA dream to change the lives of these children for the better, if you can, please help us.
Regards
Navin Gulia
ADAA
ADAA - Apni Duniya Apna Ashiana – help these children
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