Balochistan government announced to take the complete guardianship of a street child whose video holding a shoe-polish kit in a freezing temperature in Quetta went viral on social media.
Heartwrenching to see kid👇earning livelihood in bonechilling cold in #Quetta.
Abject Poverty&deprived of basic necessities 4 ordinary human living is sad story of #Balochistan, KP,GB&AJK as result of biased treatment in #Pakistan&its #ARMY.@mjdawar@Pashteenidrees1@SN_Bugti pic.twitter.com/qUHm8YzN6V
— Azeema (@azeema_1) January 15, 2020
The spokesperson of the Balochistan government, Liaqat Shahwani, announced the decision. He said the video of the helpless child made him upset.
It is no wonder why the youth in Balochistan fail to emerge with stable personalities that might help them in their future. This is only a glimpse of what those foolish parents do to their children and what these kids have to go through. @Senator_Baloch https://t.co/Pmq3nkjNuB
— Ali Changezi (@AliChangz) January 15, 2020
He said the CM Balochistan intends to take the full responsibility of the child adding that the provincial government is bringing in legislation to protect the street children.
“The chief minister has taken responsibility for this [shoe-polishing] child himself,” he stated.
“We have already allocated a budget of 50 crores [Rs500 million] for child protection authority and will do effective legislation against child labor,” he added.
The heartwrenching video showed the boy bent to protect himself from the freezing temperature. The little kid, in the video, was purportedly out in the street to earn a livelihood by polishing shoes of people on the streets.
Shahwani regretted that children of his age must be in schools but are out on the streets to earn.
