no-longer-a-slumdog

No Longer a Slumdog
Then her story started to tumble out. Her parents had died
several years earlier, and she had been left living on the railroad
tracks with her brother. That was until he, too, recently passed
away.
The little girl said that the children she used to play with
were all gone. They left her and were now in our center. So she
had come to ask, “Would you take me too”
Due to the acute poverty throughout southern Asia, almost half of the children there
live without adequate shelter. Some have homes made of whatever materials they can
find, while others simply sleep on the streets.
Of course we did. But the sad reality remains that most such
children do not find a place of hope like this.
Throughout the slums of southern Asia, there are millions
of children living with only one of their parents. Many dads and
moms have died because of easily preventable diseases. Some are
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