Within the group of vulnerable children that our Projects are destined to, we pay special attention to street girls, who, just as boys do, lack education and healthcare, and endure abject poverty, mistreatment and marginalization. Aside from all of this, they also endure discrimination for the fact of not having been born males, and their situation is markedly unfavorable.
In Indian society, where castes and dowries are so important, where the image and value of women is always subject to that of males, it is girls, and especially those lacking in means, who are the most vulnerable because they suffer the consequences of these beliefs from birth, and are subjected to begging, exploitation and the rest of problems associated with living and working in the streets.
The Indian government is beginning to become aware of the danger that the exceedingly vulnerable conditions of women in Indian society imply.
