Transform childhoods of 300 slum children in India

On sunny and pleasant Sunday morning, YUVA group organized awareness campaign in Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, one of the largest marathon event in Asia, at Marine Drive. More than 14,000 runners participated and many more people to cheer and organize events, dancing, singing and other performance. There was lot of energy felt from huge crowd of people, and YUVA was one of them to raise our voice on youth’s rights.

Our main purpose was of participation was to promote YUVA-Child Resource Centre and raise the social awareness on child related issue. Yourh and children under various YUVA  programs held up posters, drums and balloons and cheered runners from the road side. They also marched on the road of Marine drive, singing songs and claiming youth rights to raise the roadside walkers’ interest and other corporate/ public /social sectors who are also organizing events.

YUVA group also interacted with some corporate sector and NGOs, building up trust and cooperative relationship on raising awareness and cheering the runners. Youths performed street-plays about infant femicide and drew huge attention of the audience. Children and yourhs also enjoyed interacting with others and occasionally participating on other events, singing and dancing.

It was the first time for YUVA to participate in SCMM, and we saw huge opportunities to build acknowledgements of our project and organization. Although there were some improvements necessary, we would like to participate more actively and in larger scale next year.