Slumdog Wins For All!
Surge in donations for organisations working with street children in India
Charities
working with street children in India have seen a huge rise in interest
from new donors after the success of Slumdog
Millionaire.
The film, which tells the story of a boy
from the slums who appears on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, won eight
Academy Awards this week.
Terina Keene, chief executive of street
children's charity Railway Children, said the charity
had been inundated with calls.
"The phone doesn't stop ringing," she
said. "In the past three days more than 1,500 people have visited our website.
There are normally about 150 visitors per day."
In response to the film's
success, the charity has placed an advert on internet search engine Google for the first time, she said.
Keene
also said Slumdog actor Dev
Patel and director Danny Boyle were in talks to appear on the English version of
Who Wants to be a
Millionaire? to raise funds for Railway Children .
Orphan
charity SOS
Children's Villages also said it had attracted new donors since the film was
released.
Andrew Cates, chief executive of the charity, said: "Raising
the issue of street children is an enormous benefit to us. Since Slumdog Millionaire, we've attracted more
sponsorships for India than we usually do."
Save the Children said it had also
benefited from Slumdog's
success. A spokeswoman said: "People have been talking about the issues the film
raises and then signing up as donors."
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