The Ragpickers of Bangalore


Shiva, once a ragpicker, now at Agape Children's Centre.
In a recent survey it was estimated that there are about 70,000 ragpickers in Bangalore city (50% of these Ragpickers are children) and 65,000 street children living in extreme physical and spiritual poverty. They live on the streets, railway platforms, and the unhygienic disease-infested slums in and around Bangalore city, where 750 slum areas have already been identified.