Anand kids' song resonates at UN

VADODARA:Rutika Valva, 11, is yet to see much of life to start having any expectations from it. This daughter of a loading rickshaw driver had just a one-point agenda in life - do your bit to the best. Therefore, when her voice got a global audience on Wednesday, it filled the little girl with joy.
Rutika was one among the seven children from a street school in Anand who were hand-picked for a solo part in a song that was specially telecast from the UN office in Geneva on Wednesday .
London-based Sir Vartan Melkonian, the humanitarian ambassador to the UN street children programme and patron of the consortium for street children of the UK selected her personally. The special song got telecast with messages from the British who's who including PM Rishi Sunak.
The song also featured Himanshu Sargara, 15, another kid from the school who lost his father at a very young age. "The song included 60 street children from Egypt, the US, the UK among others," said Uma Sharma, who has been operating her footpath school.
"Children from across the world want to take part in the song now," said Melkonian, who personally recorded the song based on Indian philosophy and Lord Swaminarayan in January.