Change Makers: Auto Murugan

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S.Murugan, now 32 years of age, was born in Kerala to a mother who worked as a plantation labourer at a Tea Estate in Peerumedu. During his formative years, Murugan often had no food in his belly and clothes on his back due to a drunkard father and the meagre income of his mother. Even when after a few years his father took the family to Port Kochi to find a new beginning, poverty never really left their stable. Murugan lived along with a family there whose son taught him to beg alms. He used to collect discarded and often soiled vegetables to satisfy his hunger and used to kill rats for shop owners to earn 10 paisa on each rat. The cruelty of life was a gross understatement compared to what went along in Murugan’s life. But he never lost hope. While his friends turned gangsters, thieves and murderers, often landing in Jail, he moved to an orphanage at Pulluthurthy. There he worked as a mason and also sold newspapers to earn Rs.75-100. Here he also started to work with Childline as a volunteer

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