New Delhi, March 06: If Mumbai’s slum children could walk the red carpet at the prestigious Academy Awards ceremony in 2009 for Danny Boyle’s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, Delhi’s urban poor youth would have a chance to go all the way to Australia for studying.
Under an exchange programme between Delhi-based NGO Asha and the University of Melbourne, selected students from around 400 slum youths currently studying in Delhi University will get this golden opportunity.
“Education is the only way for these children to break the shackles of poverty and take part in the economic progress of this country. They are as talented and intelligent as other students. They lack opportunity and we are providing them with that,” says Dr Kiran Martin, a paediatrician and founder of the NGO that works for welafre of slum dwellers.
“Delhi has some 1,500 slums.
–PTI