Empowering Vulnerable Children Through Life Skills

 
$15,002
$194,998
Raised
Remaining

Summary

Empowering over 3,000 children from poor socioeconomic backgrounds with critical life skills through sustainable engagement in sports, creative arts, IT skills, mentoring and adventure camps

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

India has over 2 million children whose basic rights are not being met. These include orphans, abandoned and runaway children, street children & children living in slums. These children have limited or no access to opportunities for life skills development and without which they run a high risk of failing to rise above the vicious cycle of poverty and life on the street. The project will impact over 8000 of these children by 2009-12 and develop in them skills to access a better future.

How will this project solve this problem?

Programs in sports, creative arts, IT Skills training, mentoring and adventure camps are used as mediums for life skills development. Each child/youth in the age-group of 5-18 years gets minimum 8-hours of intervention per month.

Potential Long Term Impact

By 2012, the project will help over 8000 children develop critical life skills such as self-esteem, inter-personal and cognitive skills thus enabling them to become employable and substantially improve their chances for integrating with mainstream.

Project Message

I find myself missing my mentor the minute he leaves the centre. He has left me with enough advice and confidence to help me help my friends who go through the same difficulties. I feel confident.
- A 14-year old from an orphanage, Beneficiary of the mentoring program

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $15,002
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $194,998
Total Funding Goal: $210,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Resources

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Organization

Dream A Dream
Dream A Dream

Jayanagar, Bangalore, India, India
http://www.dreamadream.org

Project Leader

Vishal Talreja

vishalta@gmail.com
Bangalore, Karnataka India

Where is this project located?

Map of Empowering Vulnerable Children Through Life Skills