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Heartbreaking Images Of Underprivileged Children Struggling To Survive During Lockdown

With 472 million children under the age of 18 in the country, India reportedly has the largest child population in the world. Campaigners says that the lockdown has adversely impacted around 40 million children from poor families. And while the rest of us are sitting inside our houses, one question remains: Where do the children without a home go?

Anuj Tiwari Updated on Apr 25, 2020, 17:47 IST

With 472 million children under the age of 18 in the country, India reportedly has the largest child population in the world. Campaigners says that the lockdown has adversely impacted around 40 million children from poor families. And while the rest of us are sitting inside our houses, one question remains: Where do the children without a home go?

The world's largest democracy has been under the world's biggest lockdown for last 30 days.

Thousands of underprivileged children have been adversely impacted and are going to bed hungry.

Dayaram Kushwaha, a migrant worker with his 5-year-old son, is jobless, homeless and miles away from home after coronavirus lockdown was announced in India on March 24, 2020.

A homeless girl eats food on a street during a nationwide lockdown in Hyderabad.

A homeless child plays during the nationwide lockdown in Guwahati. In India, an?estimated 176 million people struggle to survive on $1.90 a day or less.

Thousands of calls are received by helpline number daily while thousands are going to bed hungry as the country shuts down to battle the pandemic.

Homeless children rest on street in Chennai.?India has the largest child population in the world and campaigners say the lockdown has impacted around 40 million children from poor families.

While the entire country is busy talking about maintaining good hygiene and social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus, there are some people who can do neither. Their first priority is getting food for themselves during the lockdown.

According to the official estimates, Delhi has about 70,000 homeless children but groups who work with these children say that the numbers are actually much larger.

The homeless child and those stranded because of shutdown scramble for food packets when a volunteer reached to distribute in front of Rajiv Gandhi General Hospital in Chennai.

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Anuj Tiwari writes stories for SEO and is a Youtube wizard. An engineer turned social media champ, he keeps a track of all that goes around the world. His interest areas include historic events, political and social-sciences.

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