INTRODUCTION: The name A.R.Rahman needs no introduction. Several of the tourists venture a guess. They have to spend everything they earn every day. Street children have no place to keep the money they earn where it won't be stolen - by adults, by bigger kids, and sometimes by corrupt police. Glass whiskey bottles are the best, he says, fetching about 3 rupees apiece. They're selling bottles and cans that they've scavenged around the neighborhood. Boys are emptying filthy sacks onto the ground outside the shop of a trash recycler. One day he beated my mom very badly, and he killed her. 8- year- old guide, Satender Sharma, is a former street kid himself, so he knows firsthand about the perils and freedoms of living by your wits in the city. It's a tour called City Walk, onto the turf of the scruffy kids who beg, steal, shine shoes and smear car windows in an effort to make a few rupees. But every morning, a young Indian guide shepherds a dozen or so visitors into the maze of alleys that surrounds the New Delhi railway station. Salaam Baalak Trust is an Indian charity for homeless children. A street child looks out from his classroom during studies conducted by the Salaam Baalak Trust at the New Delhi railway station in September 2. Taking A Walk Into the Lives Of India's Street Kids : NPR.
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