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No Longer a Slumdog Many children throughout the world live in a perpetual state of hunger and pain, their bodies struggling to keep up with the demands that are placed on them. ensure your growth. You might also suffer night-blindness from vitamin A deficiency. Soon your mom had to resume her day job of cleaning streets with a hand-broom and washing other people’s clothes, because when she didn’t work, the family didn’t eat. So you were left in the care of an older sibling. As you started to crawl, you explored on your hands and knees the open sewer trenches running along the alley between neighboring shacks. If you had any clothing at all, it was made from rags found in the nearby dump, which is where all the household treasures came from. 28
stolen childhood If through strength and providence you survived the first few years of life, at the age of 5 or 6 you might be sold by your parents into bonded labor to help secure a little desperately needed money for the family. Otherwise, you probably joined your siblings sifting through garbage to find rags, plastic bottles, pieces of metal or anything else that could be sold for a few pennies to help the family survive. You may have become a beggar or even a thief, desperately doing whatever you could just to eat. School It wasn’t even a possibility. Your small contribution to the family income was needed just to survive. Besides, nobody in the family had ever been to school anyway. You think I’m exaggerating. No, I am See what it takes to be a firstgeneration reader. not. According to UNICEF, more than Third-Grade Dropouts 1 billion children around the world are deprived of one or more of these essentials: ad- www.nolongeraslumdog.org equate shelter, food, safe water, sanitation, health care or education—living in conditions you and I can hardly imagine. 2 Desperate Poverty As bad as this sounds, millions of children every year experience a far worse fate. In despair of ever being able to care for you, your mother might one day have thrust you onto a passing train bound for Delhi, Bombay or Calcutta. At the end of the run, you would have been pushed onto the streets of a megacity by a train employee as you screamed in vain for your mommy. It is hard to imagine this could really happen—but it does. I heard this very story told by a girl named Asha. Here’s her tale in her own words: 29
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Notes Front Matter 1. Shane Claibor
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notes Appendix II: Believe It or No
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After 2,000 years of Christianity,
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Give HOPE to a child in need today!
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Share Their Hope in Your Hometown H
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DISCOURAGEMENT: REASONS AND ANSWERS
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