Street children: I am Agha

This film tells the story of a street child who collects garbage and works hard to survive.

Meet Agha Khan, a street child who collects garbage and works hard to survive. Life goes on, no matter what happens around him.

While Agha’s most pressing concern is survival, he also wishes, like every child, to play, to go to school and get education. Filmed in Lahore’s Ferozpor Road area in 2010 by Atif Ahmad Qureshi, it is not known what has become of Agha Khan today.
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Pakistan has one of the world’s largest populations of street children, estimated by the United Nations in a 2005 survey to be between 1.2 million and 1.5 million, with an average age of nine. Most will die before their 18th birthday.

For more information regarding the plight of Pakistan’s street children please visit Azad Foundation – an organisation that provides food, shelter, health care, education and counselling to Pakistani street children. Film courtesy of London International Documentary Festival (LIDF). Devised and Lead by LIDF as part of their film-making for social change programme.

This film is part of Pakistan Calling,  www.thersa.org/pkcalling  a UK and Pakistan project by  www.thersa.org and thesamosa.co.uk   please visit www.thersa.org/pkcalling  for more films on Pakistani civil society organisations, social entrepreneurs and individualswww.thersa.org/pkcalling - The RSA and The Samosa launched www.thersa.org/pkcalling to promote constructive cross-cultural dialogue between Britain and Pakistan. Show your support by watching the film.