If you are poor you can only become more poor

Few days ago I went to a slum where some of our children live with a Doctor from Germany, it was 4 pm, while we were walking there we saw two jeeps full of policeman and a JCB or a earthmover coming.

With stick the policeman chased the poor people out of the shacks and the JCB immediately rased everything to the ground.

By the time they had finished it was almost 6 pm, all those poor families many with 4,5 children were just sitting on the street with a bundle of belongings, not knowing how they were going to pass the night. Temperature here at night goes down to 10 - 12 degree.

We sent our tractor to the spot and we hauled about 12 families to our Sandipani Muni School we set them up for the night and the next day we helped some of them to relocate and some we gave money for a train ticket to go back to their villages.

They left the villages because there they have absolutely no means of earning a living, they come to places like Vrindavan where there is lot of construction and development. They work hard all day 7 days a week, underpaid and with no security, insurance or anything more than few rupees per day. This is what they have to face at the end of the day.

It is the India of today, it you are rich you can double your capital overnight, but if you are poor you can only become more poor, to levels I have never seen in my life.