Salaam Baalak City Walk – New Delhi

Salaam Baalak City Walk - New Delhi is a guiding tour around New Delhi Railway Station and Pahar Ganj area, in which former Streetchildren share their personal story and raise awareness about street children in India as well as about Indian Society Problems.

Since about three years The Walk is run by Salaam Baalak Trust (SBT) - a Non-Profit Organization, taking care of street- and former street-children in Delhi. Today SBT works with about five thousand children every year.

Through this program the young guides, who are former boys of our trust, get an opportunity to improve their English communication and business skills independently. The Walk hopes to raise awareness about street children and helps to provide a deeper insight about street life from people who have experienced it themselves. Often people who are coming to Delhi from Europe or the Western World don’t get in touch with poverty and the real problems Indian society is facing. During the Walk the participants get to know another side of Delhi - why children run away from home, how they learn to survive on the street, how they enjoy their life on the street because they are independent, and how eventually they can choose their future over this freedom. Some of our children have taken the opportunity to change their lives and now they are going to university, studying different languages, working as professional photographers or for example as tour guides for The Walk.

External links

[1] SBT Homepage