These Birds Walk

Omar Mullick is a film director and cinematographer who is best known for his 2013 feature film: These Birds Walk. His work has been published in various places like The New York Times, National Geographic, TIME, and many more. Last Wednesday, I had the opportunity to see his amazing work, These Birds Walk which is a film on the street children in Pakistan. In this movie, I could see one of the many problems people were facing in Karachi, Pakistan; and that was poverty. There were many orphanages. Little boys would run away from home because their parents wouldn’t have enough money to feed the family. This movie documents the struggle of little street children and what they go through at a very young age that most children in the United States would never go through. I also saw that although people in Karachi were poor, some of them had big hearts. There was an organization called the ‘EDHI foundation’ that helped the street children and poor people. EDHI was a home to keep these children, educate them, and provide food. The children would

Later, when he was returned back home, his father told the driver of the EDHI foundation that he would be happier to see Raffiullah’s dead body than returning him alive. There was another child, Omar, who said that his mother wouldn’t have even one rupees to buy food so he would ask people for money in the streets. At the end of the movie, when Omar was returned back home, his parents said that they knew Omar was in the EDHI home so they did not worry about him because all of their other children have been there for months because the family couldn’t afford the expanses. It was really sad seeing what children and families were going through but at the same time I feel happy that there is at least a place, EDHI home, to support these children and families who are in most need for