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India's railway children
25 October 2006
Visitors to New Delhi in India are being offered a tour with a difference as former homeless children take tourists on sightseeing trips.
The boys, who used to live on New Delhi's railway platform, will take tourists around the city, showing them a day in the life of a street urchin for just 200 rupees (£2.30), reports the Daily Telegraph.
Tour guides have many tales to tell and as travellers are taken to different sites they are told them with great enthusiasm.
The tours have been organised by the Salaam Baalak Trust, a charity which has been set up to help railway children.
Popular mainly among younger tourists, the tours were the brain child of Englishman John Thompson, who came up with the idea while visiting India to teach English.
'The tourists say it beats trudging round the usual list of monuments,' said Mr Thompson.
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The boys, who used to live on New Delhi's railway platform, will take tourists around the city, showing them a day in the life of a street urchin for just 200 rupees (£2.30), reports the Daily Telegraph.
Tour guides have many tales to tell and as travellers are taken to different sites they are told them with great enthusiasm.
The tours have been organised by the Salaam Baalak Trust, a charity which has been set up to help railway children.
Popular mainly among younger tourists, the tours were the brain child of Englishman John Thompson, who came up with the idea while visiting India to teach English.
'The tourists say it beats trudging round the usual list of monuments,' said Mr Thompson.
© Adfero Ltd
