Where do they come from?
Diksha children are typically:
- From Migrant labour families living in jhuggis (make-shift homes)
- Belong to economically weaker sections living in Chauma village, Dharam colony, Caterpuri and New Palam Vihar
- Found loitering in the streets begging for alms
- Drop outs from up to three previous schools
- Refugees from Bangladesh
Who are they?
Diksha children:
- Belong to families with a monthly income of Rs. 8000 or less
- First-generation learners
- Unsupervised with both parents working full-time
- Belong to single parent homes
- Guardians for younger siblings
- Subjected to physical and verbal abuse
- Recipients of alcohol-induced violence
- Weak and undernourished
- Abandoned
- From gender-biased homes
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