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From a Delhi slum to the UN: How Devendra Kumar's Ladli Foundation is changing 30 lakh lives
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Not many people can say they learned to survive before they learned to walk. Devendra Kumar can. Abandoned by his parents in Dakshinpuri, one of Delhi's most crime-prone slum clusters, at the age of two, with a three-day-old sister in his lap, he was selling balloons on the street by the time he was eight. He dodged drug rackets, took beatings he still remembers in detail, and somehow kept going.Today, that same boy runs Ladli Foundation, a grassroots organisation that has, by its own count, tou
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