I am proud to be in touch with this great institute which is able to reach out to 62,000 kids. But is it really enough to be satisfied with this institutes accomplishments? India is adobe for highest number of street children in the world. The survey done by New International in 2008 produced statistics which were really disheartening and shocking. India posses over 11 million street children standing at the top of the charts. India is leading the chart by a huge margin from the second ranker Egypt which has 1.5 million street children. If we progress at this rate we could lose the advantage of our demographic dividend. 24%youth in our country who are currently lying in streets would end up as rag pickers or anti social elements. This would be a huge setback to the country’s progress. In reality it would put our country in a situation which is much worse that what we are currently in.
This shows that we need to reach the door steps of many millions of children in our country who are residing in open areas devoid of doors. This is possible only through scaling of institutes like Door Steps and setting up similar institutes across India.
Want to change the lives of the needy people around you? Want to support this NGO in this noble cause please http://www.doorstepschool.org
Want to set up similar NGO in your location, and need guidance in this regards? Please mail to dvnwar@gmail.com
