By Kuriyakose Sajan | Chairman
Dear Donors,
Greetings to you from HEARDS – India!
HEARDS has undertaken Right Based Approach and Rehabilitation of child labor project in Chittoor in close collaboration with the establishment where child laborers were engaged in different forms of hazardous work. As a first step HEARDS had conducted a comprehensive survey and enlisted these child laborers for a Right based approach and rehabilitation project.
Most of these children are migrants from backward rural areas of Chittoor District and other parts of Andhra Pradesh and a few from other states. The families with 5 to 7 children each are driven by poverty, illiteracy and unemployment. In most cases the fathers are alcoholic and have multiple marriages. The status of women and children are abominably low, with no provisions for maintaining the basic child rights.
Due to the grinding poverty in the families, which forces the children into labor at tender ages, majority of the trafficked children are primary school drop-outs, while some of them are illiterate. They are thus deprived of the basic right to education.
A staff meeting is held every month to reorient the staff, so that they gradually give up the black board method of teaching and enhance their own capacity to take up the issues and matters, which affect the daily life of the children. The teachers teach how to cope with the hazardous working environment and also how to take precautionary measures to avoid mishaps and sickness.
Education of the children is that each child should have access to basic elementary education. He should also be equipped with knowledge, skills, values and rights that would help him achieve personal development. This education should give him an insight into the socio-economic circumstances, which have led his family to send him to lead a life, which is little better than that of a bonded laborer. He should also learn to aspire for a better future for himself, his peers and his family.
The highlight happened with our project on child labor rehabilitation was that HEARDS Child Labor has been selected for Social Welfare and Growth Awards conducted by CSR Journal magazine at Mumbai. This recognition is happened to the project is because of donors like you and also your valuable contribution to the society.
Thanking you all,
With best wishes and fond regards,
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