{"id":14932,"date":"2013-02-08T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-08T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T18:02:12","slug":"-Slumdog-children-of-India-fighting-lonely-battle-to-make-5-00-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14932","title":{"rendered":"‘Slumdog’ children of India fighting lonely battle to make $5.00 a day"},"content":{"rendered":"

These moving new pictures show the desperate plight of India’s most vulnerable young children, left to fend for themselves on the streets of the New Delhi.<\/strong><\/p>\n

January was a bitterly cold month, with children withstanding the coldest day in the capital for 44 years.<\/p>\n

In New Delhi there are 100,000 homeless children and 33 per cent of them are only six to ten-years-old, according to UNICEF.
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\nRather than looking after them, heavy-handed police officials treat them like any other petty criminals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One homeless project manager even says that they are often beaten for being on the street.<\/p>\n

Among the children struggling to keep going is Sanjay Kumar, 13, who sells car phone chargers at a busy traffic junction.<\/p>\n

He came from Bihar, one of India’s most impoverished states, and now survives by earning up to 300 rupees (\u00a33.50) on a ‘good day’.<\/p>\n

Sanjay explained:<\/strong> ‘I ran away from my home six years ago because my father used to beat me up.’<\/p>\n

‘One day I ended up on a train and when I woke up I was here. Sometimes I want to go back but I don’t know how.’<\/p>\n

Across town from Sanjay, six-year-old Anita has made her home under a flyover overlooked by one of India’s largest IT business districts.<\/p>\n

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