Transform lives of 85 child laborers in India

Dear Donors,

Greetings to you from HEARDS!

Thank you for your valuable support towards HEARDS Child Labor Rehabilitation programme in Prashant Nagar Colony, Chittoor.  I am hereby enclosing the progress happened during this quarter:-

Children Status and Child Labor Rehabilitation Center Routine

The regular routine activities of our child labor rehabilitation center have strengthened by implementation of quality aspects in educational support.  The basic reason behind this rehabilitation center is to provide with a hand holding mechanism to cope up with the school curriculum. The newly enrolled children have a high risk of dropping out after enrollment. The reasons are varied, namely, overcrowded classes and teacher is unable to give personalized attention. The children who have no knowledge start finding it uninteresting to merely sit in the class room and tend to drop out. But once they are enrolled in HEARDS child labor rehabilitation centers it is ensured that they are given the basic knowledge and they are able to easily follow what the teacher teaches in the center.  We also have noticed that the children who have been with us in the rehabilitation center have not only been regular to our center but also have been doing well in academics. This has been confirmed with their respective teachers in our rehabilitation center.

Monthly once our rehabilitation center teachers conduct monthly test in order to assess the performance of each children. During the period 3 monthly tests have held followed by question paper contained series of question according to class wise in related to subject matter through which children appeared confidently with pre-preparation and scored good marks. After test, answer sheets of each child were evaluated, verified and obtained marks details have informed to respective children and tracked at the center. Some students secured fewer marks that are much focused during the special coaching classes to improve their performance whereas monthly test updates have been tracked and maintained by teachers at respective center.

Staff Orientation Program

At HEARDS, we have a well defined and structured orientation program of introducing project goals and objectives to the staff and especially to the new staff making them aware of the value that HEARDS provided to its staff.  Staff orientation program is done every month.  Our Project coordinator has started this orientation program by appealing to all the staff regarding their roles and responsibilities.  Childhood must be spent at schools and not at work to grow into a healthy and dignified life. These children are precious for development of any country. Development without taking care of children will not be termed as “development with justice”. Rehabilitating these children is very tough but not impossible. A collective and sustained effort to combat child labor would yield good results. Let’s vow to fight against child labor to eliminate it completely.

Parents/Community Meetings

During this period we have conducted 3 parents/community meetings successfully.  Involvement of community members, and especially parents, is a key factor of success to ensure the protection of child rights in the community. The objective of these meetings is to promote community responsibility for child welfare issues, which will help create a protective environment and will reduce vulnerabilities of children. During these meetings, parents and other community members are provided with adequate counseling and information on all issues related to children rights, which helps them better prevent, identify and respond to cases of child rights violations. Some of the recurrent topics discussed during community meetings are: issue of out-of-school children, seasonal migrations, child labour, learning levels in the schools, prevention of child marriages. During these meetings, parents are been made to realize the importance of sending their children to school and asked to make whatever sacrifice required for the cause.

English coaching classes

Spoken English classes have been taught every Saturday of the week with the assistance of Mr.Sajan, Chairman. General English usage and making English sentences, conversations, basic English grammar, making small stories methods and techniques were taught by the teachers of the rehabilitation centre.  Coaching class are not only assisting the children to get very good hold on English subjects but also improving general knowledge of the children by effective use of English Grammar and other techniques of reading and writing. 

Educating the children with personnel hygiene 

During the evening hours of the day the teachers were started to educate and train the children in hygienic practices like hand washing, handling of water, food hygiene, re-use of used water, etc.  Children will know and follow hygienic practices. This will in turn help parents and community also knowing of the good practices.

I request all our esteemed donors to support this most inevitable work which is conducted by HEARDS and I also request you to pass on this information to your friends and relatives.

Thanking you,

With best wishes and fond regards,