Child Protection India Project #8633

Transform lives of 85 child laborers in India

by Health Education Adoption Rehabilitation Development Society (HEARDS)

Transform lives of 85 child laborers in India

Project Report | Aug 31, 2017
Thank you for transforming lives of Child Laborers

By Kuriyakose Sajan | Chairman

Krupa's Picture

Dear Esteemed Patrons,

Greetings to you from HEARDS - India!

Here I am sharing a Case of Krupa who lives in a 10ft. X 10 ft. hut in Prashant Nagar slum. Her father is an Electrician but unfortunately addicted to alcohol and always behaves violent at home and her mother left the family because of her father's torture. So in 2014, she and her brother went to live with their grandmother, who took Krupa out of school and put her to domestic work. She was 13 at that time. The brother continued in Government school.During the initial stages her grand mother was reluctant to send Krupa to the child labour rehabilitation centre.

After repeated visits from our HEARDS staff and team persuaded the grandmother to send Krupa to our child labour rehabilitation centre. Krupa’s health and grades improved over one year. In 2015, she was mainstreamed IX Grade in govt. school, got good grades and became class leader. She has completed her 10th Grade in March 2017, but wants to study further. She passed 10th Grade in flying colors. This year she joined in Intermediate Education at B.S.Kannan Junior Government College. She joined in MPC Group. She wants to study further and her life ambition is to become a Collector. HEARDS will make it a point to track her progress, as we do with our other children.

Our Animators monthly follow up to know the status of Krupa in B.S.Kannan Government College was remarkable because now she became the class leader for her class. All the lecturers in the college along with the Principal was appreciating HEARDS staff for their stringent effort in making a working child mainstreaming her to a normal regular school and later to the Junior College. Apart from that Krupa was coping up with regular college going children very well. Even the grand mother of Krupa was quite happy to know about the status of her child and she promised that she will never discontinue her from studies and she will make her study as much as she is interested to study.

HEARDS urges poor families to send their children to school instead of work. This is the age to play and learn, not work!. Like Krupa there were more success stories which will be shared in our future reports. The organisation will be monitoring the project in all the stages to sustain the project activities.

Thanking you,

With best wishes and fond regards,

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Jun 7, 2017
Progress Report - child labor rehabilitation

By Kuriyakose Sajan | Chairman

Children at HEARDS Rehabilitation Centre

Dear Esteemed Patrons,

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

HEARDS is trying to achieve every year to reduce the exploitation and promote the rights of the working children. Here are few activities which we implementing during this reporting period:

Books and Note books supplied:

To motivate the children and to give them the feeling of the schooling, note books (copies), a medium size school bag and necessary stationeries such as pencils, rubber, sharpener, writing pads and a fancy pen are given. As per the need copiers are supplied again and again at least thrice in a year. The distribution of books, note books and school bags attract the children to be in school regularly and gives a feeling that they are not deprived of learning materials to continue their schooling. All the identified children who attend the center were given all the required assistance. Teachers use teaching manuals, text books and Guides for their use.

Mid-day Meal for children:

By the generous help of our esteemed donors, all the children who attend the school are given mid-day meal between 12.30 -1.30 p.m. A weekly schedule of menu was made available accordingly, lunch was provided. It was being cooked every day and served to all the children coming to the school. This activity ensures that the children will never be mal nutritious again. This is the only nutritious meal they are having for the entire day.

Preparing our children to get mainstreamed to Government Schools:

One of the greatest achievements of the project is that we keep on mainstreaming at least 40-50 children every year, who were once just school dropouts, have rejoined the mainstream regular school after completion of appropriate Government examinations. This was possible for them because of the HEARDS Child Labor rehabilitation center. Similarly, this happens not only in the end of the year but it also happens in the middle of the year as the child gets adopted to the educational stream by way of reading and writing easily and if he can cope up with the regular school going children than we normally mainstream the child in the Government school even in the middle of the year. Apart from that our Animators keep track of the children who got mainstreamed to the regular Government schools and the teachers and Headmasters are very happy about our children as they are far better than the regular school going children. Thus the dream of HEARDS and the donors of GlobalGiving childhood bridge into future is being realized.

As the educational academic year is going to start in the month of June HEARDS is planning to mainstream more number of children into the Government schools.

All this achievements are happened because of donors like you and therefore we request you to kindly support us continuously so that we can dream of a better tomorrow in the future. It not only regains the lost childhood but also we are making children better future citizens.

Hoping for your continuous valuable support I remain.

Thanking you,

With best wishes and fond regards,

Kuriyakose Sajan

Chairman

HEARDS

# 15-2366,

Johns Garden,

Palamaner Road,

CHITTOOR – 517002

ANDHRA PRADESH

Mob: +91-9441643401

Email: heards_ngo@yahoo.com

Web: www.heards.org

Children with their educational material

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Mar 13, 2017
Progress Report - child labor rehabilitation

By Kuriyakose Sajan | Chairman

Children who are mainstreamed atGovernment school

Dear Esteemed Patrons,

Greetings to you from HEARDS!

Health Education Adoption Rehabilitation Development Society (HEARDS) with the support of your valuable contribution in its unique intervention with working children and dropout journeys with different activities which would enable and enhance the life of the working children throughout the year. Working with the targeted children gives satisfied inner feelings and derives happiness among the HEARDS team to work with dedication. The growth of the children, regular attendance and the high performance in the educational standards in the centre are the real witnesses and the evidences for the activities that are facilitated by HEARDS. The children admit that they benefit a lot to excel in their education through the rehabilitation centers run by HEARDS.

All the children who are withdrawn from full time child labor has been fully withdrawn and has been provided quality education through easy based learning methodologies and we were able to provide good nutritious food for the children. All the children were also provide free bag, slates, note books, copywriting books, pen, pencils and other stationery items. During this year we were expecting to mainstream another 20-25 children into the regular Government schools. The great impact among the project is that we were successfully able to convince the working children to prevent from working and able to take them back to our rehabilitation centers.

Handling Computer was very far away for the working children. This was introduced in the earlier years on a test run and we find an enormous difference happened among the children and the children have shown great interest in learning computers. We have also made some computer based tutorial for these children which were taught on with daily lessons by the teachers. Now there are 6 computers which could be in use for the children who learn computer. Children were taught following lessons theoretically and practically by the professional tutors following a systematic syllabus.

Demo in handling computer, usage of its various parts, working in computer based tutorial, working in MS Excel, Basics of operating computer, creating power point presentation and Math formulae calculations in Excel were well covered by the teachers.

Feedback from the Teachers:

1. Children are very enthusiastic in learning the computer

2. Children could be given some awareness camps regarding the course

3. Providing training materials will make them attend the course regularly

4. Children could be divided into groups based on their regular attendance.

We at HEARDS are committed to support poor children by preventing them from falling prey to Child Labour. Let us join hands on this to support these downtrodden children. The financial support which you have extended has helped many children to fulfill their dreams and also it helped their parents to realize the importance of education. I request you to kindly extend the same support in future also.

Thanking you,

With best wishes and fond regards,

Kuriyakose Sajan

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