“Please help these girls get a new life,” one reads.
“There are two girls for adoption, one is three days old and the other is 6 months old. Their parents are expired due to COVID-19.”
But according to local authorities, these alerts popping up in phones across India are doing more harm than good.
Anurag Kundu, from the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights, says while some messages could be posted out of ignorance or through good will, some may also be cases of children being trafficked or sold.
“I am concerned about the future of the children who have lost their parents, and ensuring that they don’t fall prey to trafficking is the minimum we can do,” he wrote in a letter to the Delhi police chief.
The crisis is that either children are losing their parents, or their caregivers are hospitalised
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May 06, 2021
Children of migrant workers sit at a bus station, as they wait to board a bus to return to their villages, after Delhi government ordered a six-day lockdown to limit the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Ghaziabad on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, April 20, 2021.PHOTO: REUTERS
When an Indian children s rights group tracked down two boys aged 6 and 8 after it was told that their parents were both severely ill with Covid-19 and unable to care for them, the children had not eaten for days.
BENGALURU (REUTERS) - When an Indian children s rights group tracked down two boys, aged six and eight, after it was told that their parents were both severely ill with Covid-19 and unable to care for them, the children had not eaten for days.
The case, reported by the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) group which located the boys in a small town in India s rural heartland, is one of a growing number of emergencies involving children affected by India s devastating coronavirus crisis.
The exponential rise in infections and deaths has left some children, particularly in poor communities, without a carer because their parents or other relatives are too ill to cope or have died.
Covid leaves children without carers Published: 1:09 AM, May 07, 2021
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When an Indian children s rights group tracked down two boys aged 6 and 8 after it was told that their parents were both severely ill with COVID-19 and unable to care for them, the children had not eaten for days.
The case, reported by the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) group which located the boys in a small town in India s rural heartland, was one of a growing number of emergencies involving children affected by India s devastating coronavirus crisis.
The exponential rise in infections and deaths has left some children, particularly in poor communities, without a carer because their parents or other relatives are too ill to cope or have died.
Children of migrant workers sit at a bus station, as they wait to board a bus to return to their villages, after the Delhi government ordered a six-day lockdown to limit the spread of the coronavirus disease, in Ghaziabad on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, April 20. Reuters
When an Indian children s rights group tracked down two boys aged six and eight after it was told that their parents were both severely ill with Covid-19 and unable to care for them, the children had not eaten for days.
The case, reported by the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) group which located the boys in a small town in India s rural heartland, was one of a growing number of emergencies involving children affected by India s devastating coronavirus crisis.