'Child Friendly Spaces' for 105 child labourers in Gujarat, providing non-formal education and ultimately transitioning children out of full time work into mainstream education.
Today in India, 250 million children are working to support their families’ meagre incomes. Gujarat ranks ninth among India’s 28 states in child labour. Often employed as domestic servants, tea-stall workers, rag pickers, vegetable sellers and at roadside dhabas, these children are deprived of basic education and suffer long working hours, abuse, torment and the loss of their childhood. Often they are abused at home as well as work, without refuge and with little hope for the future.
Through an integrated programme: i) providing non-informal education within the child's working day ii) addressing factors creating/sustaining child labour, such as low parental incomes and imparting skills to parents iii) nutritional support
Potentially, change the course of the lives of child labourers otherwise with no alternative for education. By teaching literacy and providing a chance of formal education, they have a chance of a future and to escape a vicious circle of poverty.
Ajay was illiterate before enrolling onto the CFS programme. After a year he was reading and writing and carrying out basic arithmetic, including multiplication and division.
- Ajay Rathod, 11-year old, working f/t assisting a lorry driver
Total Funding Received to Date: $3,347
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $11,177
Total Funding Goal: $14,524
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