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Magic of Twitter: How Social Media Helped Reunite 12-Year-Old Migrant Boy with His Parents


The boy lived in Delhi along with his dad and mom who went again to their hometown Bihar, leaving him behind with family members with a promise to be again quickly.

  • News18.com
  • Last Updated: May 26, 2020, 11:53 AM IST

A 12-year-old migrant boy who had been stranded in a park in Dwarka on their lonesome was lastly reunited along with his dad and mom when Twitterati got here ahead to assist the kid.

IPS officer Arun Bothra shared the unimaginable story on Twitter and in addition wrote in regards to the energy of social media.

According to the thread, the boy lived in Delhi along with his dad and mom who went again to their hometown Bihar, leaving him behind with family members with a promise to be again quickly.

But that didn’t work out. The family members allegedly threw the boy out. Alone and left to fend for himself, the boy moved right into a park in Dwarka the place he had been dwelling since. He befriended a stray canine which saved him firm.

Bothra wrote that it was a Twitter consumer named Sneha who tweeted his story first and tagged “India Cares”, an organisation out to assist individuals like this boy in the course of the coronavirus outbreak within the nation.

Bothra mentions that there have been trains between Patna and Delhi which might assist reunite the boy along with his dad and mom, however the dad and mom have been in Samastipur. An IPS officer in Patna then helped the boy’s dad and mom attain Patna and India Cares organized tickets for them to journey to Delhi.

On May 23, the boy’s dad and mom lastly arrived on the park the place their child had been dwelling and it was a contented reunion, to say the least.



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