Small Children Big Dreams [Hardcover]

The book essentially deals with the psyche of a child, the desires he holds closest to his heart and attempts at aiding the readers in comprehending how children need to be treated with utmost love, care and dignity, and in understanding better their role in providing children with happiness and contentment. It paints a picture of the life as it is seen through the eyes of a child deprived of the sheer pleasures of childhood. It comprises of case stories about children and the extent to which a young and innocent heart can be touched by the power of love. About The Author:- The author, Ms. Khurshid Dabdi, hails from a middle-class Parsi family. After finishing school and Junior College at Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Parsi Charitable Institution, she graduated in Commerce from Hinduja College in 1985. She deems herself fortunate to have parents who provided emotional security besides other comforts that loving parents bring to a child's life. As a child, she was quite touched by the lives that the street-urchins led on the footpath opposite her school, near Charni Road Station, and by the contrast their upbringing had to hers. After graduation, she worked as a teacher at a convent school for some time. Then, in 1989, she joined CRY (Child Rights and You), an NGO working for the betterment of under-privileged Indian children. She continued at CRY in various capacities till the year 2000.,To fulfill her duties towards humanity, she gladly became a part of the Neighborhood Project initiated by some CRY colleagues, little knowing that the same was later to become the centre of her existence. She quit CRY in 2001 to be unrestrictedly with this Project, by now re-christened as Sunbeam, and continues to be its Managing Trustee. 'Small Children Big Dreams' is her attempt to bring out the joys and struggles of childhood, and to make a larger audience sensitive particularly towards the needs of underpriviledged children. Contents:- Contents # Gratitude: Preface: Acknowledgements: Intr