Click to play videoNew Delhi: Classroom assignments are like a dream come true for thirteen-year-old Yasmeen.
Till three months ago she was living in Viklang Basti, behind Delhi's Nehru Stadium, with a handicapped mother and three younger siblings.
The only source of income for the family being the meager amount her mother made by begging. But life smiled on her after Khushi Rainbow Home picked her and the other 44 children from the streets, three months ago.
“I'm really enjoying myself. I was living on the streets earlier. I enjoy studying,” Yasmeen said.
The Delhi government along with an NGO called Aman Biradri have set up four schools in the Capital which at present are looking after 200 street children.
These children are provided with shelter, basic education and three square meals a day. The plan is to eventually transfer these children to government schools after initial training.
“The idea is to provide a home to these children in school buildings after school hours, and train them to be in a position to compete with children who come from other families,” Conveyor of Aman Biradari, Harsh Mandar said.
And of course, these kids are already dreaming big. While one says she wants to be a lawyer, the other wants to “grow up and become a social worker.” But the one profession that most children wish to embrace is teaching.
For these children life in this schools brings with it the promise of a better and brighter future and with it a resolve to become self reliant and independent.
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