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The United Nations defines a street child as, “Any child for whom the street is the habitual abode and/or a source of livelihood.” It is estimated that there are 250,000 such street children in Mumbai alone.

These children perform such menial unskilled jobs as ra-g picking, scavenging garbage, polishing shoes, selling drugs, or begging. This type of exploitative life produces such negative effects as stunted growth, increased susceptibility to disease, and psychological scarring. This work also deprives the children of an education that will allow them the mental growth necessary to escape this degradation.

VOICE, a registered public trust, has worked with these very children of Mumbai since 1991 to ensure that they are not forgotten, but instead given the tools necessary to succeed in life. At that time, we were armed with nothing more than the belief that the quintessence of the human condition is a yearning for dignity and self-worth – and that this dignity can exist even in the most degraded circumstances of human life.

VOICE’s mission is “ to reach out to vulnerable and neglected street children and, through education, enable them become whole human beings and self-reliant, responsible, contributing citizens.”