On the 21st of July, 2000, there was an article in the Times of India, Mumbai stating that there were nearly 200,000 homeless/orphan children in Mumbai, and every week, more than fifty come in from other states to join them.
Mumbai is still deemed the 'city of opportunity' to many and because of this, if things are not going well for a family in the villages, they move to the cities or send the children to the cities to make their lives better and get money.
With the population of Mumbai surpassing 18 million and growing almost by the minute, it is clearly impossible to sustain a high enough standard of living and enough 'opportunities' for everyone.
One! targets the street children, and their families, of Mumbai. In particular, the central Mumbai areas between Bandra and Andheri, where there are numerous pockets of slums with between 50 and 200 people each. These areas are filled with people who have no jobs and have arrived within a year from Gujarat or Rajasthan, or other states to the east.
...half the city's [Mumbai] 18 million people live in temporary slums who do not figure in municipal data.
The Times of India - November 10, 2006
Government data shows there are more than 11 million child labourers under 14, but [a child activist] said this was a gross underestimate and the figure was closer to 60 million.
The Edmonton Journal - August 2006
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