200 street and vulnerable children from the Kolkata slum in India will be given education, technical training, school materials, food and medicine, shelter in hostel for changing mainstreaming life.
In and around Indian cities many communities not possessing own land and dwellings are residing in temporary tents/huts by the roadsides. They don't have enough to eat and they can't afford to go to school, so they spend their time scavenging for food. They face violence, hunger and disease and, without an education, they have no way out. This program will give 200 children an education and help them succeed until they can support themselves and ultimately their families.
We opened a school near one of such slum street children to send their reading run by us. Pay for school fees and materials. Provide medicine and food as needed. Follow up regularly with schools and children. Continue our support as long as needed.
The slum is a cycle. Street children grow up without an education and have children who then become street children. Education is the only way out of the slum, for a productive, independent return to mainstreaming life.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
