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Newspaper By Street-Children Tells Stories Of Lost Childhood

Newspaper By Street-Children Tells Stories Of Lost Childhood

by The Daily Eye Team April 18 2016, 11:04 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secs

Balak nama has been in circulation since 2003. It is a unique newspaper, written by and for street children. The story of how it came to be published is very interesting and deserves to be told. Today, this publication touches the lives of almost 10,000 street children. Childhood Enhancement through Training and Action (CHETNA) is a public charitable trust founded in 2002. This organisation empowers street children in many ways and one of its main points of focus is education. It helped the first bunch of street children it supported to form a federation of their own, which they call Badte Kadam.

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