Children on the street.

A long absence, my apologies. Too much other writing.


This item is about my former PhD student, Barnabe D'Souza in Mumbai. He has worked tirelessly for most of his life working with street children, attempting to rehabilitate them into jobs and worthwhile lives. This means educating them about drugs and safe behaviours, and offering them a sense of togetherness and purpose. Needless to say their lives judder from one crisis to the next. Abandoned once, society at large would continue to abandon them unless strong people get up and struggle on their behalf.
Congratulations to Barnabe. His PhD thesis is available on http://eprints.worc.ac.uk/512. His book From Ecstasy to Agony and Back: Journeying with Adolescents on the Street is available from Sage.