I am a pavement dweller from Chennai. nowadays,on International Day for Street Children, I want governments to ensure all children have an IDMost people ostracise and stigmatise those of us who live on the street. They treat us like lesser human beings and blame us for the way we are forced to live. But, or because we lack any form of legal identification,we can’t get the support we need to improve our situation.
I am a third generation pavement dweller – my grandparents lived with us on the street in Chennai, on the Bay of Bengal in eastern India, and until they passed absent two years ago. Now,I live with my parents and one of my two sisters. We live on Barracks Street, in an area called Mint. We don’t have a genuine roof over our heads. We live in dread, and all day,every day. We never know what might happen to us when night comes.
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Source: theguardian.com