NGO, cops reunite 8 runaway kids with parents in a week

Thane: Prakash Yadav, a 10-year-old child who ran away from home, was found begging at Kalyan railway station by volunteers of a city NGO in late December. After a month of coaxing him to reveal his home address and counselling sessions, the boy who initially claimed he was from Bihar revealed that he lived in Airoli with his father.

He confessed that he had run away from home as his father had stopped his studies in Bihar, brought him away from his mother and got drunk and treated him badly on a daily basis.

The volunteers of Samatol, the NGO, along with the Rabale police, traced the boy's father, who works as a watchman in Airoli, and mother, who came down from Bihar, counselled the family together, made them sign that they would take proper care of Prakash in future, and handed him over to them on R Day.

A day before the incident, the volunteers of the NGO reunited two school-going boys, Abhishek Patole (15) and Kasim Gupta (14) with their kin in Ahmednagar. The boys were tired of the daily nagging from home for poor grades. Thus, they stole Rs300 from home and sat in a train to CST instead of going to school. The volunteers when found them contacted their parents, broke the misunderstanding between the families and sent them back home.

They also reunited three 11 to 12-year-olds. One of them who had lost his way was found begging for food at CST station. He was reunited with his family in Masjid Bundar. The two other boys aged nine and 14 were forced to work by their own parents.Arun Bhage, the nine-year-old earned anything between Rs 250 and 500 daily by begging at Thane station. The 14-year-old Kisan Gupta was sent to work at a handloom company in Bhiwandi two years ago.
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