Education & Health via Sports to Indian Slum Kids

SCSTEDS Report for Global Giving

Initiatives and Impact in year 2014

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.

The project is being temporarily withdrawn from Global Giving to focus on Chennai  flood relief efforts.