India’s Abandoned Children Who Cares for Them?
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Children are the heritage of the Lord. They bring joy and give meaning to the life of the family. Today, I would like to share with you about the forsaken, suffering, neglected children who are in the streets. I grew up seeing street children and now work as a social worker for them. I would like to share my first-hand experience. Why are they on the street? Sometimes we take things for granted, basic things which they long for like- parents and a roof over their heads. When I was a teenager I was on the bus to school, I was holding a bar of chocolate. A boy was begging for money. I said, “I am sorry, I do not have any money on me.” That boy asked me if I could give him my half-eaten 32
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chocolate. I gave him the leftover, I could see his sad face changing into happiness, not because of the taste of the chocolate but because his acute hunger was relieved. That incident changed my life. That face and smile still convict me whenever I take things for granted. It reminds me that I can share my blessings. What feels unimportant to me becomes their essential. Maybe that’s the reason I became a minimalist. So, who is minding the street children? Now, it’s people like me, Christian
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youths with the heart for them. My family has been in the children’s ministry for the past twenty years. We call ourselves a “HEBRON” family, the shelter for many. My father and uncle rescue the children from the railway stations and under the bridges. Once rescued, we bring them home to a good meal, a shower, and a place to stay. Children are so forsaken that no buses or vehicles take them in due to their appearance, no Barbers are ready to cut their hair because they scorn them. We work on the basis of three things: 1. Soap 2. Soup 3. Salvation Firstly, we treat them as fellow human beings by respecting them. We rescue them, buy them soap,
