Half of all children living on the street or from homeless families work for a living–at construction sites, hotels–and do not study, reveal data from surveys conducted across five Indian cities.
As many as 37% of street children counted were girls, and about 5% were orphans who fended for themselves, according to a joint study by Save the Children India, New Delhi, an international NGO, Rainbow Homes, a nation-wide project for homeless, currently working in eight states, and UK Aid , a UK-based NGO.

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