Support-11500-kids-out-of-child-labour-&-poverty

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Project Need: $20,000

Funding
to Date:

$21,946 (%)
As of Feb 13 02:57 2012

Theme: Children

Country: India [View country profile]

Sponsor: GlobalGiving

Project Information

Project duration: Ongoing

Project's area of focus: Education, health, livelihoods and rights for child labourers and their mothers

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Caste & religious discrimination results in these families being dependent on bonded labor, rolling raw tobacco into cigarettes. Children are at risk through exposure to the tobacco atmosphere in the womb, as infants & as child-laborers (from 7 yrs old). The children are from low-caste Hindu, Tribal & Muslim families who are uneducated, do not own land or have alternative livelihoods.11500 children in the project villages will be helped, along with their families; a total of 40,000 people.

Activities

Providing an integrated program of education, health-care & livelihood schemes stopping child labor, including provision of access to education (20 pre-school and crèche facilities), mobile health clinics & micro-finance self-help savings groups.

Expected Outcomes

Each child can access education, proper health care, nutrition, and recreation to enable them to have a childhood free from child-labour and child-marriage, and to support their overall development and the completion of their education.

Project Message

"I have to work hard but I think that I will see a different future for Vanita and Rishikesh.Before, I used to wonder ‘what is all this work for?’, but now I see them happy and learning
- Anita Jedgule, Cigarette - 'bidi' - worker and mother.

Project Contact

Steven Murdoch,
Staff Member
Karuna Trust
72 Holloway Rd
London, UK N7 8JG
United Kingdom
02077003434

Resources

Organization's Overview


Karuna Trust 72 Holloway Road LondonEnglandN7 8JG United Kingdom +44 (0)207 700 3434 Organization's Homepage

Organization's Mission

Our vision is of a world without prejudice, in which every human being has the opportunity to fulfil their potential, regardless of their background or beliefs. We aim to do this by challenging the ignorance and prejudice that trap people in poverty.

Organization's Programs

Our main programme is with minority 'ex-untouchable' Scheduled Castes and Tribes in India. We also have programmes with indigenous minorities in the Himalayas and in Bangladesh, and with street children.

Organization's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Support-11500-kids-out-of-child-labour-&-poverty

Organization Statistics		Financial Statistics
David Francis, Mr Founded in 1987 Employees: 15 Volunteers: 2		Other funding sources: Around 7,000 individual donors Big Lottery Fund Stanley Thomas Johnson Trust Staples Trust Wingate Foundation Guernsey Overseas Aid Isle of Man Overseas Aid Committee Equitable Trust Religious Affiliation: Buddhist

Personnel Overview

Prakash Palande - Director, National Institute for Sustainable Devt

Prakash has worked in social work in India for over 20 years. Being himself from the project area, he is very moved by the plight of cigaretter-rollers and their children and saw that no-one else was working in teh area. So he set up NISD to help both the poverty stricken Dalit (untouchable) and Tribal people in the area.

MANGAL KADAM - Project Coordinator

Mangal was involved in social activities since her college days. She did a MSW to improve her knowledge of how she could help the most deprived. Mangal did not want to disrupt her work and commitment towards the poor so she choose as her partner a man who is also a social worker and willing to work with NISD. Now Mangal and her husband –Yashwant- both are pillars of NISD’s work