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| birth_date = 1997
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| nationality = Indian
| other_names = Chandni Di
| occupation = [[children's rights]] activist and editor
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| organization = {{unbulleted list|Badhte Kadam|Voice of Slum}}
| known_for = {{unbulleted list|Founding the NGO Voice of Slum|Contribution to welfare of street children in India.}}
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'''Chandni Khan''' born in {{Birth year and age|1997}}<ref name="TNM">{{cite news |last1=Srinivasan |first1=Sarayu |title=This is Chandni, a street kid-turned-newspaper editor, all of 18 years old |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/chandni-street-kid-turned-newspaper-editor-all-18-years-old-34884 |accessdate=9 March 2019 |work=The News Minute |date=5 October 2015}}</ref> is an Indian activist and editor working for the welfare of [[street children]] in different parts of India. She founded the [[NGO]], Voice of Slum along with Dev Pratap Singh.<ref name= IWB /><ref name="Lokmat">{{cite news |last1=Kumari |first1=Pallavi |title=#KuchhPositiveKarteHain: एक सोच जिसने इस शख्स को भीड़ से बनाया अलग, आज सैकड़ों बच्चों को बना रहा है आत्मनिर्भर |url=https://www.lokmatnews.in/india/delhi-ncr-ngo-special-story-voice-of-slum-run-by-dev-pratap-singh-or-chandni-khan |accessdate=9 March 2019 |work=Lokmat News |date=1 August 2018 |language=Hindi |quote=लेकिन देव की ये चाहत थी कि जो उनके साथ हुआ वह किसी और बच्चे के साथ ना हो और इसी चाहत में उन्होंने अपनी पार्टनर चांदनी खान के साथ मिलकर एक एनजीओ खोला। जिसका नाम है- voice of slum।}}</ref> She was the editor of the newspaper ''Balaknama'', literally meaning "voice of children", published in [[New Delhi]].<ref name="TNM" /><ref name=GuardianChandniKhan>{{cite news |last1=Venkatraman |first1=Shai |title=Meet the street children making their own newspaper in India |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/apr/14/street-children-journalist-balaknama-newspaper-delhi-india |accessdate=9 March 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=14 April 2016}}</ref> She is also called '''Chandni Di''', the word ''di'' meaning "older sister" in some Indian languages.

== Life and education ==
Chandni was a homeless child herself. At the age of five, she started performing street shows with her father in [[Noida]].<ref name="HT">{{cite news |last1=Sharma |first1=Manoj |title=Street performer to editor: 18-year-old Delhi girl makes news |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/delhi-street-performer-to-editor-18-year-old-makes-news/story-D426mHnFXzzQAnjf4duZxN.html |accessdate=9 March 2019 |work=The Hindustan Times |issue=23 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="IWB">{{cite web |last1=Sharma |first1=Khushboo |title=Chandni Khan Is The Slum Kid Who Reshaped Her Fate And Is Now Helping Others Like Her |url=http://www.indianwomenblog.org/chandni-khan-is-the-slum-kid-who-reshaped-her-fate-and-is-now-helping-others-like-her |website=Indian Women Blog |accessdate=9 March 2019 |date=4 June 2018}}</ref> He died in 2008, after which she and her mother survived by [[ragpicker|ragpicking]] and selling flowers at traffic intersections. She was twelve when she met some volunteers of CHETNA, an NGO that facilitates education and healthcare for underprivileged children. With the NGO's assistance, Chandni enrolled into an open school programme in 2010.<ref name="HT" />

== Career ==
In 2010, Chandni started working as a trainee reporter at ''Balaknama'', a newspaper brought out by and for street children in Delhi. CHETNA started the newspaper and continues to support it.<ref name=HT /><ref name=GuardianChandniKhan /> Four years later, she was promoted to the position of its editor.<ref name=HT /> Simultaneously, she started working for CHETNA's sister NGO ''Badhte Kadam''.<ref name= TNM /> As the National Secretary of ''Badhte Kadam'', she has worked for the welfare and rights of homeless children in [[Delhi]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], and [[Haryana]].

She co-founded Voice of Slum in 2015 with her friend Dev Pratap Singh, who had also grown up in slums. The organization, among other things, runs a school in [[Noida]] for children living in low-income neighborhoods.

She has delivered talks at different [[TEDx]] events, Josh Talks and the [[United Nations Development Programme]] (UNDP).<ref name= IWB /><br>
She has worked with the [[United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child]] (UNCRC), the [[National Commission for Protection of Child Rights]] (NCPCR), [[Child Relief and You]] (CRY), [[Save the Children]], and [[Plan International|Plan]] India.

==See also==
*[[Street children in India]]
*[[Child labour in India]]
*[[Children's rights movement]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://www.voiceofslum.org Voice of Slum]

Childhood Enhancement through Training and Action (CHETNA) in [https://www.streetchildren.org/csc-network/members/#chetna Member Directory -- Consortium for Street Children]

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