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Forty-one schoolchildren from Ahmedabad, orphaned and traumatised by the riots, now have a silver lining to their uprooted childhood.
They have been adopted by a Hyderabad-based NGO - Muslim Education, Social and Cultural Organisation - which has given them a new home and access to education to start afresh in life.
All the displaced children, in the age group of 8 to 12 years, are lodged in a residential school being run by the NGO at Tolichowk in Hyderabad.
"We want to impart education to these children till the post-graduation level and are raising funds from philanthropists to this end," Dr K A Sattar Khan, joint secretary of MESCO, told reporters in Hyderabad.
A majority of the children are from the relief camps at Shah-e-Alam, Bapu Nagar and Daryakhan Gumbuz in Ahmedabad, which witnessed the worst of the communal clashes. The Gujarat Sarvajanik Relief Committee had recommended these children to the NGO.
A second batch of 45 children will join them soon, Dr Khan said.
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