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Podcast - street kids and the slum-dwellers foundation

Submitted by Nathalie McDermott on November 21, 2006 - 16:41.

On our last full day in Mysore, Stan took us to 2 projects run by the Rural Literacy and Health Program (RLHP). 

Firstly, we visited a small village that started out as a slum - we heard from the people who came from rural poverty to look for construction work in the cities and ended up finding even worse conditions like many other slum-dwellers in India.

Then he took us to Asha Kirana, a home and school for street kids.  Stan said it's where he goes when he feels disillusioned...we all saw what he meant when we were swamped by these gorgeous smiling kids, most of whom had come from horrific circumstances and were rebuilding their lives with infectious energy and unbelievable courage.

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