6 years ago
Children break shackles of bondage - and help others too
Bharatpur -, June 28 - From a child labourer earning Rs.20 a day after 10 hours of backbreaking work to a schoolteacher making sure that other children don't meet the same fate - Sonu Kumar dreams big and is already on his way to making it happen.Seventeen-year-old Sonu Kumar, who worked in the bangle industry of Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh, is now in Class 12.'I want to become a government school ... read more

6 years ago
Children of a lesser god tell success stories
Bharatpur -, June 27 - Seventeen-year-old Sonu Kumar till recently toiled as a child labourer and now dreams of becoming a schoolteacher. He and several other children of a lesser god related their success stories at a workshop here Tuesday.Like Sonu, who used to work in the bangle industry of Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh, Draupadi of Sarjuda village in Rajasthan's Bikaner district who lost her chil ... read more