Delhi-based NGO turns center of attention for global media
12 Oct 2014 5:23 AM IST
As evening descended, the world knew that the building housed the office of Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi.
Excitement was palpable in and around the office of Bachpan Bachao Andolan after the news broke. The road leading to the office was chock-a-block with a multitude of OB vans leading to a traffic chaos in an otherwise quiet locality.
Inside the office, a board at the reception reads, ‘BBA total children released since 1980 — 83,525.’
As people kept pouring in to congratulate him, the staff was also finding it difficult to cope with an increasing number of queries and requests for bytes by the national and foreign media.
Twenty-four-year-old Suman Kumar, who was rescued by Satyarthi’s NGO when he was all of eight working as a domestic help in Bihar, was standing right at the entrance.
‘I work as a graphic designer here and I am fully self-sufficient today, all thanks to his exemplary work. He is the reason I could reclaim my childhood,’ said Suman.
Sudeep, a family friend of Satyarthi, could be seen shouting to the assembled media persons not to ‘create chaos’. ‘It is just not possible to accommodate everyone’s requests at this point of time, because the list is inordinately large,’ he complained.
Excitement was palpable in and around the office of Bachpan Bachao Andolan after the news broke. The road leading to the office was chock-a-block with a multitude of OB vans leading to a traffic chaos in an otherwise quiet locality.
Inside the office, a board at the reception reads, ‘BBA total children released since 1980 — 83,525.’
As people kept pouring in to congratulate him, the staff was also finding it difficult to cope with an increasing number of queries and requests for bytes by the national and foreign media.
Twenty-four-year-old Suman Kumar, who was rescued by Satyarthi’s NGO when he was all of eight working as a domestic help in Bihar, was standing right at the entrance.
‘I work as a graphic designer here and I am fully self-sufficient today, all thanks to his exemplary work. He is the reason I could reclaim my childhood,’ said Suman.
Sudeep, a family friend of Satyarthi, could be seen shouting to the assembled media persons not to ‘create chaos’. ‘It is just not possible to accommodate everyone’s requests at this point of time, because the list is inordinately large,’ he complained.
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