Campaign
Did you know
- ...that a child dies from poverty every 3 seconds - that's 30,000 children each and every day?
- ...that India has a quarter of the world's poor - more than any other country?
- ...that in India, 350 million people live on less the 55p a day?
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...that India has an estimated 18 million street children?
- ...that millions more are not in school and are involved in child labour, spending the day on the streets begging and the nights sleeping at the side of the road or on railway platforms?
About Frishta
Nigel and Rachel Studley have for many years wanted to take positive action and do something practical to help these desperately poor children to escape the grinding cycle of poverty that traps them and give them a home, an education, a hope and a future.
So with others they have formed Frishta*. So, if you are interested in helping or getting involved, please click on the links below:
* Frishta means Angel in several Asian
languages (Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Farsi and
Arabic)
Frishta are building a children's village for Indian street children who
have nothing and no-one...
- Living in a Frishta family home will transform their lives!
- The children can play and be themselves without the fear of being
beaten up - They can go to school - be able to read a book for the first time!
- They will get a good education, then a job and a place of their own
to live - Frishta helps them escape the grip of poverty over their lives and to
become normal children again.
"Don't let what you cannot do stop you from doing what you can do."
Ram Gidoomal
Ram Gidoomal