Aviva/Telegraph Create
Brief: To document the lives of street children in Delhi, Glasgow and Edinburgh for sponsored features in the Telegraph newspaper and online running up to the first International Day for Street Children on April 12th 2011. The following images focus on one group of street children in Delhi, following them throughout their day.
Deepchand (14) and Aamir (12) awake before dawn to begin their work looking for scrap materials to sell.
Young children sleep in the old mail sacks that double as their collecting bags for scrap.
Members of Deepchand's gang begin their early-morning search for scrap in the streets around Nehru Place market.
Bimal, one of Deepchand's friends, collecting scrap or "rag-picking" in Nehru Place.
Late-sleepers are given a rough awakening by their friends at the patch of bare earth where they make their beds each night.
Deepchand sorts through his morning's pickings before selling them to the scrap dealer.
Stained red by traditional "Holi" pigment found among the rubbish, Bimal carries his sorted scraps to add to the group's haul.
Deepchand weighs his pickings at the scrap dealer's, a full bag might be worth 12Rupees (17p).
Bimal and Arav wait to get paid for their morning's work.
Picking his way over a bonfire of rubbish, Bimal leaves the scrap dealers to continue working.
Deepchand and his friends run across the highway that marks the edge of their territory.
In return for carrying a tea-seller's stall back to his house the friends enjoy what may be their only meal of the day: a cup of sweet tea and a biscuit.
As night falls Deepchand and his friends return to the patch of rough ground where they sleep. Within the compound beside them are modern offices and a five-star hotel.
Unable to sleep, Aamir keeps watch over his friends until the night is quiet and he too tries to rest.
Deepchand, his face coloured with pigment as part of the celebration of 'Holi', in the education centre run by Save the Children and supported by Aviva.