Comments on: India’s Railway Children

By: sucheta chakraborty

sucheta chakraborty — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:41:41 +0000

commendable work………….should be carried forward….

thanx…..

By: Slumdog Millionaire: A Voice for Children « The Weight of Silence

Slumdog Millionaire: A Voice for Children « The Weight of Silence — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:32:02 +0000

[...] Salaam Bombay has a grittier, more realistic feel without the rags-to-riches ending. While I love the Slumdog Millionaire movie, while watching it there did resonate in me a sense of reinforcement of just such fantasies that lead kids into street life in Mumbai all the time. While traveling India and researching for my book, I interviewed many social workers and child advocates who told me that thousands of children run away from home and catch a train to “Bombay” with fantasies of the movies or making it big in the glamorous city filling their head. Sadly, most of them fall prey to just such exploiters as those found in both these movies: traffickers, begging rings, brothel owners or factory recruiters. Many of them remain living in the railway stations in which they arrive, begging or scratching out a living by sorting through trash for recycling or other dangerous endeavors. You can read my story here about my day spent with just such railway boys in Mumbai. [...]

By: rangashilpi(kolkata)

rangashilpi(kolkata) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:36:57 +0000

rangashilpi is reputed theatre organisation of kolkata under reg. of west bengal govt and natya academy.
not only making theatre we also use theatre as tharapy for devloping mental,social and physical helth of humen.
we work with railway children of west bengal past 3 yr. with prajaak devlopment socity,kolkata. disable women,street children,hiv patient and many more.
we spacely work with railway children thats way we be pleased if we also build a relation with your organisation.
thanking you,
plaban basu, rangashilpi

By: Meghna Dave

Meghna Dave — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:13:53 +0000

March 17 2008
I recently made a short film on street children specially those living on railwaystations to find about their problems as part of our MBA program and after talking to a few of them on Borivli station on platform no. 7 we did our lil bit by giving them some food and clothes.Later on we discovered another sad truth about those 8 yr and 10 yr olds that they were regularly under drugs intakes like whitener. Please can you do something about them?

By: anna fischer

anna fischer — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:39:51 +0000

Thanks for this interesting website. I would like to know if there is an official number for how many children living in the train stations there are in india for my project.
or where can i go to find out more about how many homeless children are living in India´s train stations.
Thanks beforehand,
Anna Fischer

By: Neha

Neha — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:14:03 +0000

I was placed with Saathi as a student social worker for a year. I’ve not seen another organization work with that level of dedication and professionalism in a long time. I’d written out quite a bit on the plight of the “invisible” street girls. The truth is the number who go missing is probably pretty much the same – but most of them disappear from the Bombay Central station – which is about 4 minutes from Kamathipura.

By: Shirley Smith

Shirley Smith — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:54:09 +0000

Thank you for this up-date on the situation of children in India. My, how it makes one’s
heart ache. It gives me such a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. How I wish I had
the strength and monies to take care of some of these childen myself. We are so
grateful for your making others aware of the plight of these children. Hopefully, there
will be those who can do so much more to give a helping hand to those so desperate
ly in need and so deserving. Those children deserve a chance. Will be anxiously
awaiting more. Love you, Mimi & Granddad