Urban homeless, transgender people say they are in need of financial assistance during lockdown
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May 08, 2021 15:57 IST
Many homeless residents of Chennai say they do not have ration cards or access to the Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Medical Insurance Scheme
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Activists in the city have requested Chief Minister M K Stalin to reach out to vulnerable sections of the society including the urban homeless and some transgender persons. Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: JOTHI RAMALINGAM B
Many homeless residents of Chennai say they do not have ration cards or access to the Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Medical Insurance Scheme
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Living on the streets himself, 22-year-old Solomon has always understood the difficulties children from his community face. The lack of facilities, especially resources for education made him give something back to children from his community and thus, surrounded by at least 15-20 children aged between 6 to 14 years of age every evening, Solomon teaches them.
Some sit with arithmetic, some study languages while some sit and chat verses in the Thirukkural as well. Sitting on a raised platform at Singer Street in Broadway and flanked by the children, Solomon started this venture during the coronavirus lockdown when he realised that there was no other way these poor children can stay in touch with their studies if they are not going to school on a daily basis, the New Indian Express reported.
Lockdown forces Chennai homeless children out of school, families struggle to earn a living
The coronavirus-induced lockdown in March this year cut the sources of livelihood of these families. In the absence of a regular income, they are struggling to make ends meet, and in some cases, children dropped out of school to support their parents. Updated: December 24, 2020 10:04:01 am
In the absence of a regular income, several families are struggling to make ends meet, and in some cases, children dropped out of school to support their parents. (Express photo: Janardhan Koushik)
Eleven-year-old Akshaya, who studies in Class VI in a government-aided school in Chennai’s Ratan Baazar, says she has not attended her online classes for months as the only phone available in her house was broken. “My father’s smart-phone got damaged a few months ago. It hasn’t been repaired till now, so I am not able to attend the online classes,” she says. Stori
Most homeless children have no access to any form of education, Chennai study reveals
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December 19, 2020 15:45 IST
Parents say that as they do not have televisions or smart phones, their children cannot access online classes
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Parents say that as they do not have televisions or smart phones, their children cannot access online classes
As many as 71 out of 100 homeless children in the city have no access to any form of education during the COVID-19 pandemic, says a study by the Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities (IRCDUC).