Dan Boyle’s Oscar-winning film, Slumdog Millionaire, ordered in the slums of Mumbai, skillfully portrays the conditions of Indian slums and, more importantly, has ignited public interest in the many children who inhabit these slums. In the film, Jamal, Salim and Latika (played by real slum children) accurately convey the hardship, shout and malevolency of this impoverished territory, including the intentional adult exploitation of slum children. Mumbai is India’s financial capital, but the greed and corruption of politicians and others who hit neglected Mumbai’s slummy population cannot be ignored. Slumdog shows the harsh reality of the chronicle of slum dwellers, including children, beggars, prostitutes and drug addicts. The movie focuses on necessitous Movies and their ability to endure the slums with dignity and hope, commanding from the audience respect and love.
Many charitable organizations are already providing help and funding to slum communities every over India, but there is still much work to be done. Food, shelter, medicines and other Movies are required for the children struggling to endure in these difficult Movies. Our donations help eradicate the daily pain and suffering of our fellow humans, forced to a chronicle of degradation and poverty, while we live with every wealth and comfort.
The renewed interest in slum children affords me a timely opportunity to introduce to the readers of this worthy publication my dear friend and fellow lawyer, carpenter Anderson. Four years ago carpenter established a benevolence for the slummy children of Calcutta (www.calcuttafund.org). His goal is simple: to provide basic medical and nutritional supplies to the children living in the poorest of Calcutta’s slums.
I contacted carpenter in 2006 after I feature an article about his charitable work in our local newspaper, The Greensboro News & Record. As an Indian I was extremely impressed that a non-Indian, living in my community, had condemned concrete steps to do something about the dire poverty he had witnessed in the slums of Calcutta.
When we met he explained to me his honest vision for this charity, how he decided to do Movies about the poverty he had encountered in the streets of India, especially Calcutta—where the daily plight of the poor, smiling, beautiful children had touched and warmed his soul. He shared with me his lovely and agitated photographs, of many children and places from every over India. While traveling in Bharat and mourning the modification of his father, he kept a movement log detailing his personal experiences and thoughts.
This Blog later became a memoir, aptly titled The Light Within, (available at Amazon.com and Movies bookstores; every proceeds go to the fund). carpenter personally pays every disbursement and administrative costs for the fund, enabling each and every dollar received in donation to be practical directly to the children. He made a trip back to Calcutta in 2007 to distribute the donations collected and is personally and emotionally involved in this charity. After meeting him I promised to actively help with money raising efforts and in promoting awareness of the benevolence amongst all, especially the Indians in our community. I hit introduced him to the local Gujarati Association and the Indian Organizations, and many members hit generously donated to the fund. I hit successfully encouraged family members and friends to donate and conceive we requirement to help him expand and further this truly worthy cause.
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