Care, Support and Educational Services for Children in Beggary and Ragpicking

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NIRMAL JYOTHI

• Care, Support and Educational Services for
  Children in Beggary and Ragpicking

INDIAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT, NAGPUR,
INDIA
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INDIAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT

• A registered not for profit organization
• Established in 2003 to enable the vulnerable and
  weaker sections of the society
• Special focus on children in difficult situation
  towards empowerment and dignified human life
• Headquartered in Nagpur, Maharashtra State
• Promotes child rights especially of survival,
  protection, development and participation

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MAJOR ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY THE ORGANIZATION

• Care and support centre for children on the
  street which provides basic facilities and
  mainstreams them through constant care,
  acceptance and special supportive environment
• A centre at Gittikadan for children in beggary
  and ragpicking aimed at breaking the chain of
  beggary and mainstreaming children
• Non formal education and capacity building of
  children in Hazaripahad slum locality
• Care and support and capacity building centre for
  children in ragpicking at Tulsi Nagar adjacent to
  dumping yard
• Child focused community development program in
  Betul district in the state of Madhya Pradesh

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ICID Beneficiaries In Nagpur City
Shelter/Food/Clothing/Counselling/Medical at Yuvajyothi 550
Repatriation 16
Education (including drop outs) 96
Vocational Training 188
Job Placement 26
Referral 55
Educational Sponsorship 10
Kindergarten 265
Bridge School 43
Library 100
Summer camp 1328
Bal Manch 120
Life Skill Education 592
Savings and Bank Accounts 80
Childrens Day/Bal Mela 1208
Children reached through Janya Project 3021
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Background and Rationale of the proposed program

• Economic compulsions and poverty force the
  children on to the street to earn a living and
  support their families
• They take up various economic activities, such as
  vending, shoe shining, begging, and rag picking
• Certain communities that are involved
  traditionally into begging and rag picking pass
  on the tradition to their children and push them
  on to the street from infancy itself
• They are into a vicious cycle and they have not
  been provided an opportunity for different way of
  living and children enabled towards growing up
  with dignity and self worth

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• Mangarwadi, a tribe whose traditional occupation
  is begging reside at Gittikadhan
• Their children are into begging and rag picking
  as an economical activity along with their family
  members
• They are deprived of their childhood and basic
  rights to education and dignified living
• ICID has initiated work among these children and
  manages a care and support centre
• The centre has been providing basic facilities,
  recreational, hygiene and non formal educational
  services to these children with the local support
• 170 children have been accessing these services
  and 65 of them are involved in small saving
  through an initiative named Mera Galla and bank
  accounts have been opened for them in Corporation
  Bank
• The project proposes to reach out to these
  children on the street and break the chain of
  beggary and rag picking by strengthening the
  initial work with regular educational and
  vocational trainings

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BENEFICIARIES OF THE PROGRAM

• The total number of families 57
• Number of children in the age category of 3-5 are
  21
• Number of children in the age category of 6 14
  are 108
• Number of children in the age category of 15 18
  are 61
• Among these male are 111 and female are 79
• Among these children161 of them have never been
  to a school and 29 of them are enrolled in
  school but irregular or dropped out

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• Goal of the Project
• Improved sense of self worth and empowerment
  towards dignified living
• Objectives
• To enable increased number of children to opt
  out from begging and rag picking and mainstream
  them through education
• To build creative ability in children in
  difficult situation and enable them towards
  healthy and hygienic living
• To increase the sense of community,
  cohesiveness and saving habits among the children

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ACTIVITIES

• Sensitization and motivation of the Community
  members parents and significant others on the
  importance of child rights
• Recreational and Hygiene facilities for
  expression of emotions and ideas creatively and
  to be clean and healthy
• Montessori Pre- school for children from age of
  3 to 5 and 6 to 8 years would provide a
  stimulating, child-centered environment for
  learning along with supplementary nutrition
• Bridge school for drop out children for
  rejoining formal education
• Vocational training Tailoring and embroidery
  for adolescent girls
• Library for all children to build their
  knowledge bank
• Childrens Bank and Self Help Group piggy bank
  for children and for group feeling/cohesiveness
• Life skill education to make the children
  assertive and help them take appropriate
  decisions in their lives

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BUDGET
Sr. No Line Items Unit Cost TOTAL
I Non Recurring    
  Books for the library Rs. 15,000 15,000.00
  Sub total   15,000.00
II Programme Expenses    
  Nutritional support to children at Montessori Rs. 3000 x 12 months 36,000.00
  Toiletry articles for hygiene programme Rs.1000 x 12 months 36,000.00
  Annual day sports and cultural programmes Rs.10000 x 3 years 10,000.00
  Salary to Programme Coordinator (25 of the time) Rs. 3000 x 12 months 36,000.00
  Montessori teacher Rs.5000 x 12 months 60,000.00
Tailoring and craft tutor Rs.5000 x 12 months 60,000.00
  Sub total   238,000.00
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BUDGET
III Administrative Expenses    
Stationary, printing and telephone Rs.1000 x 12 months 12,000.00
water and electricity Rs.1000 x 12 months 12,000.00
Local conveyance Rs.500 x 12 months 6,000.00
Sub total   30,000.00
Garnd Total   283,000.00
Note The organization will contribute to the
project with the space as well as tailoring
machines
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Thank you