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Sourav Ganguly is ambassador of Team India North and South for Street Child Cricket World Cup in Cambridge




Sourav Ganguly is an ambassador for the Team India North and South sides. Picture: Street Child United
Sourav Ganguly is an ambassador for the Team India North and South sides. Picture: Street Child United

Two teams from India will be taking part in the Street Child Cricket World Cup.

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has signed up as an ambassador of the sides, which will be Team India North and Team India South.

Team India North are represented by HOPE Foundation, which was set up in the late 1990s to ensure basic human rights for street-connected children in Kolkata and currently run 12 protection homes, and Save the Children India, where they work across 20 states in the country.

Fifteen-year-old Soni will be playing for Team India North.

She lives in the EJC Durgapur Dock Junction of Kolkata, and after dropping out of school at a young age, now attends Save the Children’s mobile learning centre.

With the help of Save the Children, Soni has become a youth activist in her local community, campaigning for clean water and secure electricity in the settlement which primarily occupies workers from the surrounding garages and transport industry.

When she is older, Soni wants to become a social worker to support children, particularly young women, growing up in under-served communities.

One of her team-mates at the Street Child Cricket World Cup will be 12-year-old Waris.

He is originally from Kolkata and lives with his mother, father and two siblings in a one-room settlement, with both parents working as labourers.

Waris dropped out of school to work in a cap manufacturing factory to provide further for his family, but has recently
re-enrolled at school.

He has been involved in a community child health and hygiene club through the work of Save the Children, and also a play called ‘Jalkatha’ which was showcased to audiences during World Water Day.



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