The five winners of the World Street Child Games were announced as the brand ambassadors of Project Abhayam.
Every year hundreds of children go missing. In 2015, 656 street children reportedly went missing of which 305 were girls from Chennai.
On Sunday, Latha Rajinikanth launched Project Abhayam in the city to find missing street children and protect them. At the event organised by Dayaa Foundation and Citizen Platform to launch the programme, actor Lawrence who is very active in social service, stated that he was working towards educating street kids. He said that in 2015 they had requested the SBOA school to give 200 seats to street children and they had. He hoped that they would offer the same number of seats this year too.
The event was launched on Sunday with the aim of finding two missing children, Rokesh (8 months old) and Charanya (9 months old). Rokesh's mother spoke at the event stating that her eight-month old went missing when they were sleeping on the street and that the police is now looking for the child.
The five winners of the World Street Child Games from Chennai were announced as the brand ambassadors of Project Abhayam.
At the event Latha Rajinikanth said they were working on finding the missing children and that the winners of the World Street Child Games Usha, Ashok, Silambarasan, and Hepzibah were the ambassadors of the project. "We hope to protect the children and provide security to them," she added.
Usha who took part in the World Street Child Games recently stated that they were not treated with respect because they were from the street and they had gone through terrible situations.
Yamini Kannappan, a psychiatrist at Cauvery Hospital, also added that children who go missing and are rescued go through trauma and need to be cared for once they return.
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