{"id":4161,"date":"2009-05-23T02:05:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T02:05:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-22T23:05:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T23:05:47","slug":"Help-for-the-Slumdog-kiddies-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=4161","title":{"rendered":"Help for the Slumdog kiddies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nAfter the runaway success of their film, "Slumdog" director Danny Boyle and producer Christian Colson set up the Jai Ho trust to ensure the children receive proper homes, a decent education and a nest egg when they finish high school.<\/strong> They have also donated $747,500 to a charity to help slum children in Mumbai.<\/p>\n

The filmmakers have agreed to raise the amount of money they will spend on new apartments for each family from $30,000 to $50,000, a Jai Ho trustee and Rubina’s father, Rafiq Qureshi, both told The Associated Press on Saturday.<\/p>\n

In addition, the filmmakers have agreed to give each family a stipend of $130 a month and a lump sum of $3,000 a year to support the children while they are in school, the trustee and Qureshi said.<\/p>\n

That is substantially more than any of their neighbors in Garib Nagar make, where many bring home $4 a day as auto rickshaw drivers and maids.<\/p>\n

"We are trying our best to finalize things as soon as possible," Jai Ho trustee Nirja Mattoo said Saturday. She said representatives of the trust took Azhar’s family to look at a few nearby apartments earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Slum demolitions are common in India’s cramped cities, and government promises to resettle slum-dwellers often come to nothing. Even when slum-dwellers are given housing, it is often in poor-quality buildings on the outskirts of cities, far from jobs.<\/p>\n

Danny Boyle seems to have set up the children, let’s hope he put the money in the right hands.
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Source AP<\/a><\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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