'Save street children from cold'

19 December 2011, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi

NGO activists have urged the government to set up shelter homes for protecting the street children from severe cold. Rajshahi-based NGO-Adivasi Sangskritik Unnayan Sangstha (ASUS)- assisted by INCIDIN Bangladesh raised the demand in a joint press conference at Rajshahi Metropolitan Press Club yesterday. Musfiqur Rahman, project coordinator of INCIDIN Bangladesh, read out a joint statement while Rajkumar Shaw, executive director of ASUS, and Jatiya Adibashi Parishad General Secretary Rabindranath Soren were present. The statement said some five lakh children in the country live on the streets and of them, around 25,000 are in Rajshahi city. A safe shelter in the city can help them remain safe from the miserable condition in the biting cold, it said.