OUR INTERVENTIONS

Child beggary rescue and Campaign

More than 100 above child beggar have been rescued and handed over to child line by our team in last four years. Our team makes visit to different public places and traffic points in regular intervals to locate these child beggars and try to interact with them. It has been helpful to understand the issues and causes of increasing rate of child beggar in Odisha. We launched a campaign named “Bhikhya nuhen Shikhya” means Education instead begging and conducted public awareness in festival gatherings, IEC distribution in public places

Drug De-addiction counselling

In the initial phase we found around 90 percent of children were addicted to different substance abuse and taking them as alternative to their regular diet. Even the dangerous thing like dendrite was prevalently available to them. We took the mission of de-addiction as our first priority and conducted regular awareness and counselling therapy. After long continuous effort around 150 children are now leading a addiction free life. Now we are giving follow up counselling measures to the old children and regular therapy for new children.

Formal School Admission

Each year we facilitate and enrol both new children and drop out children by providing constant motivation and counselling to both the children and parents. We also facilitate with the school administration and Govt. Department in order to sort out the issues of enrolment of these children.

Aadhar Enrolment of Children

We found a serious problem that most of the children couldn’t avail Aadhar enrolment due to produce necessary documents. We took the issues to concerned authority and after long effort could able to conduct a special Aadhar enrolment camp where 130 children got their Aadhar card.

Talent Promotion Programmes

We conduct different events and competitions like painting, waste to asset, debate etc. In different occasions inorder to flourish their inherent talent and also help them to develop their skill in our informal schooling. Last year organised a two days sports event and found very interesting with the active participation of all the children. Many eminent personalities has also witnessed their performances. Our children played a friendship match with journalist association organised by Friends club where former Indian Cricket Player Sj. Debashis Mohanty interacted with our children.

Children Library

We provide thrust on life skill development of children as they belong to a vulnerable group and ever exposed to unhealthy social environment. We consciously analyze their social situation and accordingly train them to face them effectively. We give focus on building rational understanding among them through life skill tools to take independent decisions and maintain healthy relationship with all

Child Abuse Rescue Operation

We regularly visit public parks and other possible spots to check child abuse and also report to police regarding any incidence. There is an increasing rate of child abuse in different forms. Even we have many case studies with us.

Stakeholder consultation for child rescue and protection

We conduct Regular meeting with railway coolly, Taxi driver, auto driver, Trance gender group to sensitise them to protect child abuse, child begging, child trafficking in different places.

Network building with other districts and states

We have created a network with different organisations in different district of Odisha and other states to trace child trafficking and missing cases. Recently we have traced the missing of two children from Salia Sahi Area and helped them to handover to their parents through childline.

Regular Activities

Informal Schooling

We are now running five nos. of informal schools in five places in Bhubaneswar where we cater around 160 children in regular basis. The basic objective of the initiative is to develop interest of the children towards study and afterwards we facilitate them to get admission into formal schools. These school runs as per the convenient time of the children and we perform all our activities and awareness training programme. We have mobilized space from the community like Anganwadi center, temple premises etc to run our school.

Counselling

Counselling is an essential part of our intervention as we deal with children having multiple and complex issues with their life and truly unknown about the happenings with her/him. We found counselling as a strong tool to empower their inner self. We have conducted training programmes of our volunteers to provide regular counselling to the children. Often we also bring expert counselors to interact with the children and find ways for their betterment. We conduct counselling sessions on Good Touch and Bad Touch, de-addiction, bad peer circle etc. We also provide parent counselling as they became crucial factor for the child development.

Promoting Health and hygiene

We conduct regular health and hygiene awareness cum demonstration activities in regular basis in order to make the children familiarize with the good practices in their life style. We also conduct health camps and eye check up camps in regular interventions in order to check the health progress status of the children. We also focus on the good food on right time concept on the children.

E-education

‘Sikshya’ an organization working on digital learning has been supporting our children through e-learning. Our children find it more interesting with audio-visual learning through Sikshya App and also it helps us by giving computerized progress report of each children. In annual function of Shikshya two of our children got awarded for their active learning.

Exposure Visit

We consciously make exposure visits of our children to different places like public park, museums, Govt. offices, Police Stations etc. to broaden their world view. It helps them to build confidence and conversant with people those who they afraid of or avoiding before

Life Skill Training

We provide thrust on life skill development of children as they belong to a vulnerable group and ever exposed to unhealthy social environment. We consciously analyze their social situation and accordingly train them to face them effectively. We give focus on building rational understanding among them through life skill tools to take independent decisions and maintain healthy relationship with all

Celebration of Important Days

We celebrate days like Independence Day, Republic Day, Children’s Day, Street Children Day, Gandhi Jayanti etc with different activities like competition, storytelling, exposure visits etc. in order to encourage and promote the concept of learning by doing. We find high attendance of children in all our activities.