Street Children’s
Street Children Project-:
Better Childhood for a bright future. Project Description:
Jeevan Asha means “hope of Life” .Jeevan Asha aims at giving hope and True Love in life to children who have run away from their homes & get attracted to the city. These children don’t have shelter & hence live on the streets and Parent not Educate properly them. We have started 2 balwdies for them one in Kalyan and another in Vithalwadi. Every day they come for the studies there and get their nutrition & food in Balwadi centre. We work in older street children We do counseling to them, and sending for Boarding school, Home, Training Centre and sent to back to theirs home.
b) The main objectives are:
Reduce the number of children from becoming street children. 20 kids provided education health care & orientation to stable life style. The children are settled in safe, secure & caring homes
c) 30 children to be resettled back to their homes
Street Children from-: Many of the street children who have staying near railway station, street and run away from home have done so because they were beaten or sexually abused. Tragically, their homelessness can lead to further abuse through exploitative child labour and prostitution.
Child Labour: Most Indian street children work in Mumbai, Thane a common job is rag-picking, and bagging in the Railway Train in which boys and girls as young as 6 years old sift through garbage in order to collect recyclable material. The children usually rise before dawn and carry their heavy load in a large bag over their shoulder. Rag-pickers can be seen alongside pigs and dogs searching through trash heaps on their hands and knees.
Other common jobs are the collecting of firewood, tending to animals, street vending, dyeing, begging, prostitution and domestic labour.
Children that work are not only subject to the strains and hazards of their labour, but are also denied the education or training that could enable them to escape the poverty trap.
”Way True Life” provides non-formal street schools to ensure that working children get at least a basic education. We nurture community support for our schools and seek to mainstream suitable children into the government education system. We referred the older children to other NGO for popular and practical vocational training where older children can learn skills while also earning some money.
Poor health-: is a chronic problem for street children. Half of all children in India are malnourished, but for street children the proportion is much higher. These children are not only underweight, but their growth has often been stunted; for example, it is very common to mistake a 12 year old for an 8 year old.
Street children live and work amidst trash, animals and open sewers. Not only are they exposed and susceptible to disease, they are also unlikely to be vaccinated or receive medical treatment. Only two in three Indian children have been vaccinated against TB, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Polio and Measles; only one in ten against Hepatitis B. Most street children have not been vaccinated at all. They usually can not afford, and do not trust, doctors or medicines. If they receive any treatment at all it will often be harmful, as with kids whose parents place scalding metal on their bellies as a remedy for persistent stomach pain.
Child labourers suffer from exhaustion, injury, exposure to dangerous chemicals, plus muscle and bone afflictions.
There is much ignorance about reproductive health and many girls suffer needlessly. A girl made infertile by an easily-preventable condition may become unmarryable and so doomed to a life of even greater insecurity and material hardship.
Poverty-: is the prime cause of the street children crisis. Children from well-off families do not need to work, or beg. They live in houses, eat well, go to school, and are likely to be healthy and emotionally secure. Poverty dumps a crowd of problems onto a child. Not only do these problems cause suffering, but they also conspire to keep the child poor throughout his/her life. In order to survive, a poor child in India will probably be forced to sacrifice education and training; without skills the child will, as an adult, remain at the bottom of the economic heap.