सड़क पर काम करने वाले बच्चों की जिंदगियां बहुत कठोर होती है। गरीबी, बीमारी, शोषण, दुर्घटना बहुत कुछ जुडा है उनकी जिंदगी के साथ। जो अपने परिवार से कई वजहों से नाता तोड़ देते है। जिस वजह से वो घर से निकल कर शहरों में आ जाते है, कुछ बनने की चाहत लेकर। सड़क पर जीवन बिताने के साथ साथ उन्होंने जीवन को कई चुनौतियां भी दी हैं, और अपने पैरों पर खड़े होने में भी सफल हुए हैं। कार्यक्रम में कुछ ऐसे ही बच्चों का साक्षात्कार लिया गया है जो अपनी जिन्दगी के गुजारे लायक पैसे कमाते हैं और साथ ही उन्होंने अपने अधिकारों के लिए बढते कदम नामक संगठन भी बनाया है ताकि बच्चे अपनी आवाज़ ख़ुद उठा सकें। 

Grace and Adryana migrated from Orissa and Jharkhand respectively, a few years back. In this episode of Ek Duniya EK Awaaz, they talk about their experiences and present lives. Coming from "NIRMANA", it commemorates International Migrants Day, 18th December.

Migration of people from rural villages to cities in search of livelihoods is increasing day by day and presents a grave challenge as many middlemen and agencies take advantage of the poor's vulnerability and lure innocent people from villages to metropolis with false promises. Ms. Bharati Sharma, Member Social Welfare Department CWC in her interview explains the issue in detail.

The programme highlights the International day for eradication of poverty which is observed on 17th October.

An interview Kumari Selja, Minister for Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation, lists the different schemes initiated by the Indian Government for different classes of people living in poverty. Poverty eradication is the first of the eight Millennium Developmental Goals (MDGs).

NGOs estimate there are around 4,00,000 working children in Delhi (estimates based on a 1988 study) out of which at least 45,000 children are estimated to be living on the street (with peers or independently) with no parental or adult support or supervision and financially self supporting for food and clothes. UNHCHR has estimated that India has the largest population of street children in the world, some 18 million children on urban streets, mostly concentrated in the large metropolitan cities. These are children who left home to seek work in cities, children who are abandoned by their families and children who left extreme poverty situations and dysfunctional families.

Majority of these street children are street workers who live with their families in Delhi slums and resettlement colonies as well as on pavements. Though there is no concrete data to establish the exact number of street children in Delhi, it is estimated that nearly 25% of all street children are run away, migrant or missing children whose families and parents are not in Delhi.