'No other child should live like I'm living' #shorts

Five years ago, Jyoti was a drug addict, common among teenagers growing up in slums.

She and her mother were living in one of Delhi’s slums, often going without food.

Dateline first met Jyoti in 2017, when she was just sixteen years old. At that time, she was a plucky, fearless reporter working for an unusual newspaper called Balaknama.

All the journalists at the newspaper are street children, many of whom are illiterate, and report on stories about other street children.

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