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Oxfam in India - The street children of Mysore
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Street children and staff outside the Mysore shelter
Photo: Mark Davies/Oxfam |
Some children in India are homeless and have no family or house
to go to, so they live on the street. This leaves them vulnerable
and open to exploitation. Oxfam has funded groups in India working
with these street children.
Shelters provide safe accommodation for homeless children and can
provide them with basic education and training - something they
would never normally get during their life on the street.
In Mysore, in Karnataka State, Oxfam helped to set up a project
for homeless boys. Boys come to the shelter and are given a safe
place to sleep, basic education, some training, and lessons in mechanical
skills and music.
Devraj is 13 years old. He travelled 300km to the boys’ shelter.
"My parents separated and weren't able to look after
me or my brother,” says Devraj. “We hitch-hiked here to
Mysore to find work, to support ourselves. It is difficult for me
to find work as I am crippled as a result of polio when I was younger.
Now I roam the streets during the day, and come back here to the
centre in the evenings.”
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