“Let's enhance understanding of children’s connection to the street.”

Street Children and their learning space made using BALA technique at Aligarh Station.

Rag Dreams' Weavers connect youth mentors with children in street situations to help co-create an empathetic space where the children can dream fearlessly

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Our Vision

The 'Child- Rights Approach', as detailed in UN General Comment No. 21, recognizes children as rights-holders. It imagines children as capable agents in their own lives, who must be involved in decision-making. Influenced by this ideology, we envision an empathetic society (as opposed to a sympathetic one) for street-connected children, by fostering passionate youth mentors with a curiosity to build understanding. Thus, 'Rag Dreams' stands for the dreams of children in street situations, which are aided into reality by our youth 'Weavers.'

Our Mission

RDWA focuses on changing behaviours and practices at the community level and influencing public policy at a systemic level – thereby creating an ecosystem where street children are made a priority. The youth mentors help implement tailored interventions to the street situations of each child by collaboratively working with the children to bring change at the familial, community, public, and governance levels.

By 2030, as per the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we aim to provide quality education to all (SDG 4) and actively reduce inequalities within the community (SDG 10).

Our Programs

With particular focus on the development of '21st-century skills,' which are indisputably linked to achieving the UN SDGs, we run the following programs:

A mentors playing chess with their mentee street child.

A 10 months Flagship program of RDWA, where the mentors go into the journey of understanding a child's street situations and developing supportive one-to-one relationships..

A fellow works with children to address barriers in street situations

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