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NGO takes people on a 'Night Walk' to show what it means to live on street

An NGO takes people on a 'Night Walk' to show what it means to live on the streets of Delhi

NGO takes people on a 'Night Walk' to show what it means to live on street
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Geetanjali Krishna
In January 2018, at least 43 homeless people were reported dead on the streets, leading to an uproar in the Delhi Assembly, increased blanket distribution drives by concerned citizens and a brighter spotlight on the homeless in the capital. Away from all this hoopla, Jamghat, a small NGO in the capital has been quietly working with street children and over the years,  developed an innovative stratagem to get more and more people to empathise with the homeless. They conduct a two-hour Night Walk to give people an idea about what it is really like to live on the streets. The

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