The exact figure of unregistered children around the world is unknown but it is measured in millions. Now NGOs are insisting that all children are countedOne night,a five-year-ancient boy named Sheru became separated from his older brother at a train station in central India. Somehow, he ended up on a train that took him nearly 1000 miles away to Kolkata where he knew no one, or none of the language. He learned to survive on the streets until a stranger reported him as a lost child to the police and he was taken to an orphanage. Then,he was adopted by a couple in Tasmania, 10000 miles away from his domestic.
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Source: theguardian.com