Today is #internationalstreetchildrensday. My foray into street photography began when I was moved looking at the miserable lives eked out by street children on Mumbai footpath. Since then I have been documenting Mumbai street children and sharing it on social networking trying to create awareness about them to society at large and to government who are primarily responsible to take care of these hapless children. The first ever census on street children conducted by Tata institute of social science (TISS) it was estimated that 37059 lived on Mumbai streets as per newpaper report in 2013. Since then thier population keeps on increasing. These street children are victims of verbal, physical and sexual abuse, starvation and rampant drug addiction. We have laws such as rights to education, these children are not even aware about it, they unfortunately remain ignored by the government as they do not constitute vote bank and society prefer to look the other side @rajennair #internationalstreetchildrensday #streetchildren #children #poor #gettyimages #gettyreportage #reportage #reportahespotlightroundup #everdaymumbai #_insomumbai #streetphotography #streetphotographyindia #mumbai (at Mumbai, Maharashtra)
