Transform lives of 85 child laborers in India

Dear Esteemed Patrons,

Greetings to you from Health Education Adoption Rehabilitation Development Society(HEARDS) - India!

Firstly we would like to say that during this year 11 children has appeared for 10th SSC Grade Board exam. We would be honored to inform you that all the 11 children got passed with flying colors. All these 11 children were previously studied in HEARDS centre with the support of donors like Globalgiving donors like you.

HEARDS Child Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre seek to rescue children from the clutches of child labour employers, to rehabilitate and reintegrate the rescued children, to create awareness, to provide education programs for rehabilitation of child laborers. The project will bridge a gap in educational standards of these children with regular school going children for rescued children and once they improve their educational standards we will mainstream them into the regular Government schools. Our mission is to ensure the survival and welfare, quality education, quality health of children and the underprivileged in society.

HEARDS child labor rehabilitation center have now been running during this quarter and serve as a midway point for children to try ‘bridge’ their missed education so that they attain an academic level which corresponds to their grade so that after 1 to 3 years they can be placed into formal education. However, most importantly we seek to help children discover the enjoyment in learning and expanding their mind.

This report describes the work of HEARDS with child laborers and deprived children from urban and rural communities in an around the city of Chittoor. HEARDS stresses the importance of education and works closely with families to ensure that children in the programme attend school regularly so that they can aspire to better employment opportunities and break out of the cycle of poverty and exploitation.

“Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom. Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from generation to generation. Education means 'to draw out', facilitating realisation of self-potential and latent talents of an individual.

With the objective of community development by providing education to the child laborers, the Child Labor Rehabilitation program is running successfully towards its objectives of this project. In this quarter the rehabilitation center came within the frame. Most of the necessary materials and inputs were given to the teachers for their best. Our Project Coordinator has visited the rehabilitation center regularly by our follow up and for giving support as per necessary.

Imparting education forms the major activity since the students are to compete with privileged students in their regular classes. Hence, our attention, from Monday to Saturday is paid in bringing out the academic Excellency of the participating students who are going to mainstream this year. They are clarifying their doubts from the teacher. Mathematics and English is the difficult subject for children, for which special focus has been given to all children to overcome the problems through coaching every day. Now the children’s performance is increasing day by day.

Thanking you,

With best wishes and fond regards, 

Dear Esteemed Donors,

Greetings to you from Health Education Adoption Rehabilitation Development Society (HEARDS) - India!

It was really wonderful to share a story about Sheru (name changed) was staying at her home until the age of 12.  Till the age of 12 she was looking after her brother who was a kidney patient.  Sheru when approached by our Animator she was interested to come to our rehabilitation centre but unfortunately she was not so confident because she knows that her mother won't allow her to send to our rehabilitation centre.  Finally after a lot of visit to Sheru's house our staff was able to convince her parents by saying that Sheru can visit her house at regular intervals to attend her Brothers needs.

During the initial days she was feeling little bit shy to come to our centre as she is the eldest girl who is learning basics when compared to other children at our rehabilitaiton centre.  But once our children at rehabilitation centre became friends with her and during the later days she started mingling with other children. Now she is not shy anymore and started to learn the basics of reading and writing English, Telugu and Mathematics.  Unfortunately two months back her brother died.  After her Brothers death now she attends the classes through out the day and not missing any class.

Sheru was happy now and she is confident that she is not an illiterate.  Even though she was not fluent enough in reading and writing but still she manages to read and write.  By this time the teachers discovered his love for education.  Extra attention by our teachers has made this child quite amicable and confident that she can also study like any other regular school going child.  Now she also have dream for a better future like any other school going child.

HEARDS has covered 30 slums of Chittoor through its welfare services and community development programmes.  With committed children like Sheru and donors like you at Global Giving who are supporting us a lot and also HEARDS would like to transform the lives of many more children like Sheru who are illiterates or dropouts or child labor into future erudites of the nation. 

I request you to please kindly share this project to your friends and relatives so that we can bring luminary in the lives of many more children like Sheru.  The following is the link provided and please kindly share it.

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/child-labor-rehabilitation-for-85-children/

Thanking you,

With best wishes and fond regards,