Shine a Light

India is home to millions of indigent children. Many of them — according to some estimates, 18 million of them — are forced to live in the streets by the loss of their loved ones, the breakdown of their families, or simply because they no longer could endure the abuses inflicted upon them by parents, relatives, and employers. Many more — all too often illiterate, sick, and malnourished — live in neglect in the miserable makeshift homes made of scrap plastic, tarp, and mud that litter the landscape of every Indian city. Social change lies well beyond the reach of any humanitarian organization. However, for each individual child humanitarian assistance is the difference between a life of misery and despair and a fulfilling, self-affirming life lived as a productive member of the local community. Our intervention is designed to snap the self-reinforcing cycle of poverty, ignorance, and disease — one life, one child, one family at a time.

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• andhra pradesh
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• poverty
• relief
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• children
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• street children
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[Crystalv5484]

@gjsterp Until you have gone to India and witnessed the devastation for yourself, you have no room to talk. I did go to India and I came back under great stress. The poverty and hunger in India compared to America are two completely different things. Shame on you.

[punchfromnorth]

Poor Indians are suffering and their government is spending billions of dollars in purchasing arms and ammunition.

[gjsterp]

India boasts some of the RICHEST FAMILIES in the world. Why don't they make sure their children get some of the spoils?

Are we suppose to feel guilty that there are hungry children in India when there are children living in poverty and hungry in America?

Feed your own first, then try to feed the rest, but not until then.

[mbatang]

Good video. Put the full URL of Care Share India in the video description to make it easy for people to find out more.

[manishbancil]

Way to go...nice work!!