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Abhishek Bharadwaj

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Abhishek Bharadwaj is adressing the issue of Homelessness through a comprehensive, multi-sector approach, including coalition building, awareness-raising, and creative advocacy campaigns in India. After completing his Masters Degree with Social Welfare Administration, he did not look for a job; rather spent time with homeless people living on streets. Not long afterwards, he created Alternative Realities, as organization that works to raise awareness and address the needs of the city's more than 100,000 homeless people. A key to his approach is building coalitions among diverse sectors-NGOs, municipal authorities, law enforcement, hospitals, churches, and academic institutions-to address the issue of homelessness. As art of its advocacy efforts, he has formed groups of homeless youth who have written and enacted more than 300 street plays on issues related to their lives. All activities of the organization are implemented with the help of active and passionate volunteers along with supporters of homeless citizens. The initial major challenge for Abhishek was to build rapport with the community and bring unity among homeless citizens. It took him 2 years of regular interactions to bring homeless citizens together in a group. Currently he is working on forming a federation of homeless citizens, which will be a group of homeless citizens advocating and replicating the current successful model at the state and national levels. Abhishek's efforts have been instrumental in developing a sense of dignity and togetherness among homeless citizens, which has built a great foundation for homeless people to advocate towards restoring the "Right to Live with Dignity". In addition to his aim to create a cohesive and active group of homeless people, he also aims to generate awareness among the public about the magnitude of the problem as well as trying to get the state organizations to formulate homeless friendly policies. As a result of these efforts the issue of homelessness has become visible in the society and been acknowledged by the state administration. Besides sensitizing doctors, police authorities and state administration; with the help of his pubic education eforts, Abhishek Bharadwaj has also sensitized people to see homeless individuals as human beings.

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