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Generation of Covid Orphans at Risk of Exploitation in India
Indian authorities are scrambling to estimate how many children have been abandoned amid the pandemic.
08 Jun 2021, 07:27 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- In early May, Mumbai resident Akancha Srivastava noticed something unusual. Her social media handles and the chatbot on the website of the nonprofit she runs were swamped with anguished appeals to help children orphaned by India’s ferocious second wave of Covid-19, which has claimed more than 150,000 lives just in the past two months. Veering from her usual work of promoting cybersafety, the thirtysomethi...
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