Care and School Education of Street Children

Quarterly Progress Report for November 2020 to January 2021

Thanks to all our donors who supported and encouraged us to continue Care and School Education of Street Children Project in Pune city. Foundation has conducted following activities from November 2020 to January 2021 for these children :

November 2020

2^nd November -     150 street children from Sambhanagar locality of Kothrud area were given notebooks & pens.

5^th November -      Due to Diwali festival and holidays children were taught to make traditional paper lanterns.

12^th November -    300 street children from 120 families from Phulenagar area were provided food grains. In addition to this 35 families from Kathevasti area of Vishrantwadi and 40 tribal families from Ramwadi area were provided food grains.

18^th November –   42 families from Ramwadi Devkar area were provided food grains.

Due to corona pandemic parents and children are forced to live at their homes and are unable to earn and were forced to remain hungry. Janaseva Foundation’s social workers are distributing 1 time meal to 2200 sponsored street children & 800 other street children.

December 2020

As the schools remained closed they started providing online education to their students, however, as these street children don’t have mobiles and other facilities they were unable to join in online education. Hence Janaseva Foundation provided support classes to such children in various locations while observing social distancing and hygiene.

18^th December -    70 children from potraj tribe (which earns livelihood by doing road shows) were provided sweaters, sanitizers, masks, meals etc.

January 2021

4^th January -          Foundation paid the final examination fee of seven 10^th class students. In India 10^th class exam is conducted by state board or other boards as per govt. of India and this is the end of school education and passed students seek admission in junior colleges or take admission for any vocational or technical training.

6^th January -          150 students from Phulenagar area were imparted information on late Savitribai Phule, renowned social reformist and pioneer of school education of girls and women on the occasion of her birth anniversary. Speech competition was also arranged and prizes were awarded.

7^th January -          Schools opened for 9^th & 10^th classes and hence street children were counseled to attend the school and were repeatedly counseled regarding how to remain safe in schools during this pandemic.

14^th January -        On the occasion of Makar Sankrant children were provided information about this festive day and were given traditional sweets.

Not many activities could be conducted due to pandemic, however, children were counseled regarding hygiene and daily food, food grains for the needy, masks, sanitizers were distributed.

We are glad to inform that out of 2200 street children foundation has sponsored and their family members not a single one caught corona infection and we thank our social workers for providing counseling and information regarding covid infection, use of masks, sanitizers, washing hands with soaps frequently, social distancing and hygiene. They distributed masks, sanitizers, daily food, food grains etc. in spite of personal risk of getting infected with covid.

Quarterly Progress Report for August 2020 to October 2020

Thanks to all our donors who supported and encouraged us to continue Care and School Education of Street Children Project in Pune city. Foundation has conducted following activities from August 2020 to October 2020 for these children :

Nationwide lock down was imposed from 25^th March 2020 in India and no activity was allowed, transportation was halted, schools closed down and people were asked to remain at home. In such situation poor people who are dependent on their daily income for each days food faced starvation and our children being street children are from this strata of the society. Therefore foundation started distributing food and ration kits, masks etc. taking due care.

The nationwise lockdown was lifted gradually and life is slowly returning to normalcy, however many have been left jobless.

August 2020

Continuation of distribution of readymade food daily / ration kits, masks, sanitizers etc.

1^st August -     The result of students studying 10^th class was declared by the State Boards. Student Mr. SaiKumar passed out with 81.80% marks. 30 students from all locations passed out with good marks. Foundation appreciated their success.

5^th August -     6 families living on road from Vishrantwadi were provided ration kits. Similarly 20 families from Potraj community from Ramwadi are were provided ration kits.

18^th August -   Approximately 1500 children were provided syrup for increasing haemoglobin level.

28^th August – 4 students studying in 10^th class were provided tab phones to study online.

September 2020

Continuation of distribution of readymade food daily / ration kits, masks, sanitizers etc.

5^th September -           Being a teacher’s day students were given information regarding this day and they celebrated this day.

9^th September -           50 children and their parents were given cloth face masks. 300 children and 150 parents from Vallabhnagar area were given syrup for haemoglobin level increase.

13^th September -         53 families from Hadapsar were provided ration kits.

15^th September -         200 children and few parents from Phulenagar area were provided readymade food. Children from Potraj community were given chocolates and masks and 30 families were provided ration kits.

19^th September -         30 children from Cyprus Lokmanya High School were provided ration kits from the school by requesting the school.

October 2020

Continuation of distribution of readymade food daily / ration kits, masks, sanitizers etc.

Children are provided education by our teachers and their health is also taken care of.

11^th October -  As the schools are not yet opened in the state, we requested the Principal of the Col. Binni Primary School, Cyprus for teaching the students at their locations and the Principal himself teaches 30 children for 2 hours daily at their locations.