User talk:Shem222

The EDUCATORS Trust
There are hundreds of children living on the streets and in slums in India. Many of the children have parents that either do not have the means of looking after them or do not want to look after them.

The children we have decided to concentrate our work on to start off with all stay in Goa during the summer seasons and return to their villages during the monsoon season. These children are often found on the edge of roads playing whilst their parents do labouring work nearby. Some are left in small groups in fields to look after themselves all day, their parents leave before the sun rises and return when it is dark.

All of these children have at least one parent who normally cares about them very much. The problem is that the parents are trying to earn a living to look after their children and need to work. With no one to look after their children whilst they work they leave them alone and hope they will be ok.

The living conditions of these families is normally very hard. They live in make shift tents made out of bamboo and plastic to cover them. They have no running water, often having to walk a long distance to fetch any water they need, and no electricity. Everything they own can fit into a small plastic bag and can be moved from one area to another easily.

These families return to their villages during the monsoon as the homes they build in Goa cannot withstand the rain and also the work they do is not needed during the monsoon season. When they are in their villages they also do hard labour work, mainly in the fields helping farmers with their crops. Shem222 (talk) 15:14, 27 May 2008 (UTC)