Foster Care for 100 Orphan Children in India

ABOUT FOSTER CARE:

YCDA has initiated the Alternative Family Based Care Programme focusing on care and protection of the children through community based rehabilitation and family focused alternative care arrangements to ensure the best interest of the children. YCDA plays a pioneer role in promoting non-institutional care in the State of Odisha, India through community centric childcare i.e.Foster Care/Group Foster Care & Kinship Care.

YCDA started the Foster care & Group foster care initiative for the first time in the state of Odisha after due lunching of ICPS. With a successful demonstration model, it considers that Foster care is the best option for the family in a community to give care and protection who are in need of care & protection .It has proven that this care arrangement is the most beneficial and desirable environment for the healthy growth and development of a children. Placing a child in foster care gives the child a safe place to grow, either until the family circumstances improve enough to reunite the child with the parents or till a permanent rehabilitation is done for the child.

During the period, our well experienced foster parents continue to provide support of love, caring, nurturing and stability to the children. All 100 children in Foster care arrangements are safe at home and continuing their education.

YCDA SUPPORT MECHANISM DURING THE PERIOD:

Happiness Kit Support to the Children:

During the period the Happiness kit has been provided to families & children. The kit is filled with nutrients food items such as biscuits, flacked rice, flour, spices etc. & learning colourful materials like colour books, pencils boxes ,notebooks ,education materials & to exercise their cognitive abilities, activity-based learning workbooks are included for children in local languages .This nutrition kit helped the family members in supplement of intake the nutrients items in their daily meals a day . This happiness kit brought a joy among the vulnerable families.

Celebrating Joy of Living in a Family:

All the children are in family based care and we are celebrating it in a fun way to encourage families to support children in a family & showcasing that how much the families are important for children among the stakeholders. During the period a campaign event has been organized where the children & parents spend a day together in a fun way. The children were enjoyed a lot with magic shows, dance, music, balloon games etc.In different activities the parents were engaged in fun along with their children and learnt to spend the quality time & maintain the familiar routines with development of good practices especially if children stay at home.This encouraged children to continue to play and socialize with others in good manners.

 Psychosocial Support & Wellbeing for children:

All 100 children are in family based care. To address the mental wellbeing of children in a positive ways, a regular family visit and monitoring has been conducted. Our social workers were regularly visited & reviewed the children progress in education, health, psychosocial & recreation and provided support accordingly.During the period to helping children find positive ways for expressing feelings such as fear and sadness, we have organized events as a Psychosocial First Aid Therapy for mental health and wellbeing of children where children from communities were spent a long day with fun & learn activities through drawing, painting, dancing, singing & storytelling. Children were supported with activity book to practiced it in daily to expressed and communicate their feelings in a safe and supportive environment being in a family.

 Motivational Reading Festival for Children:

A programme has been organized for children where around 300 children were participated in different events and experienced reading habits in a joyful series of fun way. Participants have enjoyed story hours, reading library books, story characters from children’s books, creative writing. Children got opportunities & developed reading with creative and critical thinking skills. This has been educated children on the basics of built themselves free from anxiety, safety and teach how to prepared  themselves back to school in a normal way.

With your support, I am able to enrolled & continue my schooling. In this school closure due to COVID, I missed my friends & school very much .I had a wish to become a teacher & help the needy one

Thank You !!

SUPPORTERS & GLOBAL GIVING for your generosity..