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Why Magic Bus

  • 7.5 million of Mumbai’s 16 million urban residents are slum dwellers or homeless
  • 2.6 million children in Mumbai live on the streets or in slums
  • Over 400,000 children are involved in prostitution
 
Many non-profit, charitable children’s organisations exist in India ensuring that at-risk children receive life-essential help through food, shelter, clothing and education. Whilst these organisations fulfil a vital role in the survival of each child, lack of resources mean that other equally essential development issues cannot be accommodated.

Magic Bus works with over 40 ‘primary intervention’ charitable organisations in Mumbai in a partnership, and with 15 that create consistent access for our team. Each of these organisations recognises the need of the programme and endorses and supports the work we do with the children.

 
  

 

  • Destructive habits and behaviour problems (smoking, alcohol, drugs, chewing tobacco,
    anger, mood disorders, conduct disorders)
  • Delinquent and criminal behaviour
  • Lack of direction
  • Difficulty forming and sustaining meaningful relationships
  • Making unsafe choices in friendships, pastimes, marriage and jobs
  • Succumbing to peer pressure of local gangs
  • Remaining illiterate or uneducated as adults
  • Being unable to get employment or earn a livelihood