On a warm and sunny Saturday evening, 200 odd little kids, 3 to 5 years old, parents in tow, assembled at the St Marys pre-primary school in Mapusa, Goa. It was an unusual event for the little ones, one for which they’d been practising for weeks. The excitment was running high by the time the curtains went up for the pre-primary annual day event.
Children are meant to be in schools, playing with friends, growing up. The street is no place for them. Yet many in India have lost their childhood, earning for their supper. And we call our selves an emerging super-power!
A group of 36 children gather together at the Shanti Niketan school for street children in Assagao Goa, seeking to explore their inner artistic selves.