Education & Health via Sports to Indian Slum Kids

In partnership with SCSTEDS, CRY undertook the following initiatives and was able to create the following impact last year:

Health:

• Immunization camp held in all the 6 slums and 635 children under the age of 5 years were immunized
• Conducted door-to-door visit of household in the slums to motivate the parents to enroll their children under 5 years in the ICDS centers and enrolled 78 children into the centers
• (ICDS or Integrated Child Development Services is a government scheme that monitors development of children between the age of 0-6 and provides supplementary nutrition and ante-natal care to children and mothers.)
• Height and weight of 551 children are being regularly monitored at the ICDS centers to indentify cases of malnutrition.
• 59 mothers were enrolled in the ICDS centers to ensure that they receive supplementary nutrition and folic acid tablets.
• Activated one pathological lab in the Primary Health Center where free health services are provided by the government

Education:

• Through constant monitoring of schools, improved pass percentage of children of 10^th class which was 81% last year and grown to 92% this year.
• Mid day meals are being provided regularly and with proper sanitation in cooking.
• Facilitated construction of separate toilets in high school which will help retain adolescent girls in schools.
• Enrollment campaign organized in all the 6 slums and 84 children who had dropped out of schools have been re-enrolled into schools.
• A petition has been filed to the transport department and the corporation commissioner  asking for a separate bus for the children to go to school during school hours
• Organized special tuition classes for the children who are struggling in school.
• Children who showed slow progress academically are enrolled into STEDS football team and they are being motivated to focus and concentrate through sports.
• 10 children from children’s collective have got admission in Art college and one child in an  Engineering college through sports quota.
• The collective children also represented state team in various football tournaments and have excelled in them.