More international recognition needed!

Recently a 14 year old boy Om Prakash Gurjar from the Indian State of Rajasthan received an international peace prize from the KidsRights Foundation. The KidsRights Foundation, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, works in support of the world’s most vulnerable children who are on the edge of society, such as child prostitutes, AIDS orphans, child slaves and street kids. They focus on five basic rights: the Right to Education, the Right to proper Housing, the Right to Health care, the Right to Nutrition and the Right to Attention. It is good to see that Om has brought the World's attention [although for a brief moment in Internet time] to a very serious problem still in practice in many parts of the country. It remains to be seen as to how the State government and the Central government react to the problem in lieu of the above award.

Ravi Kandikonda