Advocating for the Rights of Urban Homeless Citizens - CityMakers Programme.
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Winner duo
Hindustan Times
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Neelam Pandey and Mallica Joshi on Tuesday received Shreshtha Award for Excellence in Journalism for Social Justice from K P Fabian, president of Indo-Global Social Service Society, a non-profit organisation working on the issues of urban poverty and social inclusion. They wrote a series of special articles on the plight of the homeless in Delhi, especially in winter.
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A life of human dignity for all
The Hindu
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The “invisible citizens” of India -- its homeless -- deserve a life of dignity, and after over six decades of Independence the homeless need to be given their due by the Government and society, said participants at a day-long consultation on “Making Delhi a Caring City: Review and Way Forward”organised by the Indo-Global Social Service Society (IGSSS) here on Tuesday.
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Shivering and Hungry on the streets of Delhi
Rediff.com
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While most of us huddle in our beds with multiple woollens during the wintry night, there are people struggling to survive on Delhi's bitterly cold streets. A Ganesh Nadar and Priyanka reportNew Delhi and old Delhi may well be two different cities in two different eras. While New Delhi, dotted with high-rises, is in the 21st century, Old Delhi still lives in the 19th century.
You don't find people sleeping on the pavement in New Delhi, but it is not an uncommon sight in Old Delhi.
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New Delhi’s homeless wait out biting cold.
DW-World.De (Deutsche Welle)
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India's homeless are waiting out the biting cold winter, which has already killed over 100 people, mostly in Uttar Pradesh.
Kalyani, 15, refuses to come out her comforter as she snuggles even deeper when her mother, Saraswati Bai, crouching over a cooking fire, calls out loudly that it is time to eat. It is early morning; the diminutive girl has a flyover over head but no protection against the chilly wind.
She is asleep on one of the many cold and hard walkways of the capital. Full Article |
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The Homeless in Delhi Struggle to Survive this Winter
Jamia Journal
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On a cold December night a few days ago, I walked a narrow and pebbled passage way that headed to a group of homeless people sitting around a campfire at a night shelter near Delhi’s Bangla Sahib Gurudwara. Helpless, they fought the furious cold weather of Delhi in their scant apparels.
I was part of a group of students who took part in a Jamia initiative called ‘Night Walk in the... Full Article |
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Homeless find cold comfort in dump, cops say clear out
Hindustan Times
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Unable to bear the cold and haunted by a death in the group, 25 homeless people cleared a garbage dump in south Delhi and pitched two tents for shelter at night. Three days later, they are again staring at cold nights, out in the open.
Authorities want the group — left homeless after their
slum cluster near the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium was razed ahead of the Commonwealth Games — to move from the dump near the Lodhi institutional area.
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