Transform lives of 85 child laborers in India

Dear Respected Donors,

Greetings to you from HEARDS!

The project on child labor rehabilitation program by HEARDS in partnership with donors like you has impacted positively on the lives of children.Today, with this project, it is now a little easier to rehabilitate the child from the clutches of employer, the frequent attacks on working children is reducing. During our outreach workers survey at the initial stages we found out 124 children as child laborers.  After sanctioning the project our Project Coordinator, Teachers and Animators has conducted a re-survey and were able to locate 68 children.  Among them we were successfully able to convince 38 children and brought them back to our rehabilitation center.  The following are the impact we were able to achieve through this project:        

IMPACT ON CHILDREN

• All the 38 working children are relieved from bondedness and continue their education, enjoying their childhood, rights, along with family care.
• All the 38 children are getting education in a joyful mode.
• Now the child dropout rate and the rate of child labor has minimized at maximum level.
• The habits of Truancy, Vagrancy among children are reduced and sustaining their moral habits among children by telling moral stories, moral songs and all religious integrated prayers.
• This is creating a regular school going habit in our children. 
• The major impact of the programme is that these child laborers who are socially and economically poor were started to follow systematic combined study, day-to-day review of the lessons learned in the center and has increased interest in their studies.
• In the Activity-based Learning, there are significant departures from and improvements on the materials we developed.  The children learn the entire curriculum very easily.  Besides this the innovation we made was through computers were the children gets easily attracted.  The usage of computers towards this Activity-based learning has created greater impact on the children.
• Children are molded by their interest on natural pious and integration by celebrating Independence Day, Children’s Day, Teachers Day and Republic Day.
• Children showing affinity towards the center and the teachers.
• This programme has given a good impact on our children as they become healthier and which will reflect in their studies.
• During this year we mainstreamed 18 children into the regular Government schools.

With your valuable contribution we were able to run this project successfully and its giving greater impact when the days goes on.  We expect to phase out the child laborers in a couple of years.  We expect the same cooperation and consideration from you in the future.

With best wishes and fond regards,

Links:

• Blog created by Mr.Govind from Intel after seeing HEARDS Project