Gallery 6 - Street Children in Bombay
These photographs were taken by photographer Dario Mitidieri, who spent a year in Bombay with the street children. We thank him for allowing us to use them.
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 Amir, suffering from stomach worms,is comforted by one of his friends outside VT Station |  Muthu, Bunty and Laltamatar approaching VT Station by train |  Three children waiting for the train to take them from Borivili Station to VT Station |  The ticket hall in VT Station |
 Lunch time at Dongri Children's Remand Home. It is Asia's largest remand home and its archaic sustem is every child's nightmare |  Rafiq, a 10 year old from North Bombay, collects scrap metal, plastic and glass inside VT Station to be sold by the kilo |  Asiam, Sikandar and Samad use magnets to collect pieces of scrap metal to be sold to a local dealer |  Firoze and Sadik smoke 'brown sugar' in an alleyway in the red light district of Kamatipura |
 The VT gang outside the station |  The VT gang waking up on platform seven at VT Station |  A sick child is fed by wardens in the girls' section of Dongri Remand Home |  Soanu, an 8 year old girl from Pune, is arrested at VT Station by plain clothes police women during a round-up by JAPU (Juvenle Aid Police Unit) |
 After a round-up, Sabina (9 years old) and her sister Nafisa (4 years old) from Aurangabad, wait in a police cell at Dadar train station. They were later taken to Dongri Children's Remand Home |  Dilly Whalla plays with a friend's crutches in the early hours of the morning outside VT Station |  Babu and Raju earn money by shining shoes at Bombay Central Station |
Special thanks to Dario Mitidieri for use of his photographs.
These photos cannot be reproduced in any form or by any means without written permission from the Railway Children.
