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 Fostercare is the best option for the family in a community to give care and protection who need 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. All100 children in foster care arrangements are safe at home and continuing their education.

YCDA SUPPORT MECHANISM DURING THE PERIOD:

Need based support to families:

During the Period, the families are continued the support of Dry food ration & Learning materials for the 100 children in Foster & Kinship families. The families were provided with Rice, Dal, Soyachunks, Onion, Potatoes, Sugar, Flaked Rice, Soap, Biscuit, learning kits includes art books, notebooks, colour pencil, pen kits. Educational materials, monthly tuition fees and other need-based supports were provided to the children regularly during the period. Time to time we have encouraged children provided with the learning & extra co-curricular materials & Make them engaged with different methodology like paper crafts, coloring, storytelling the feeling, creative drawings. 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.

Counselling, Monitoring to Families:

All 100 children are in family-based care. To address the progress of children in a positive way, a regular family visit and monitoring has been conducted. Our social workers regularly visits & reviewed the children progress in education, health, psychosocial & recreation and provided support accordingly. All the children are continuing their education in school and going to school regularly. The children are enjoying at schools in fun activities in their learning.

Annual Meet:

During the period, we have organized a Annual Meet for foster parents & children. All our supported foster parents & children get together & spend time together with joy and happiness. During the programme we have created a child-friendly atmosphere where children can enjoy to the fullest, provide a platform where children can showcase their potentiality, talents, and inner skills. In this platform, the foster parents come together to shared their learning & challenges in providing caring and parenting and learnt from each other. This is useful and effective in bringing out some positive changes in their knowledge and attitudes toward child nurturing through this event children enjoyed a lot by taking part in song, dance, and different games & learnt from each other’s by sharing their stories.

Winter Camp for Children:

YCDA creates a small initiative of this camp to create a child friendly learning atmosphere where children learn, play, enjoy their life and the camp becomes a remarkable event for them.It has created the opportunity for the children and organized 6 days winter camp where 100 children have got the emotional maturity and developed the social competence and increased their physical play. They enhanced their ability to communicate and interact positively with others peer group. Even children learnt yoga, creative art, drawing & mask preparation. Exposure visit has been organized for children and visit museum and park for mind fresh and entertainment. Children learnt creative work on paper and games. They enjoyed with dance, song and storytelling. Knowledge and effective participation have been improved among the children. All 100 children have got the opportunity of participating in the camps and got opportunity of recreation and basic entertainment.

Celebrating Children Festival “PATANGI” :

Children’s Festival is a day for everyone, especially children to get together in a multicultural environment where they enjoy fun together, do things together and share their new experience with each other. The Children Festival “Patangi” has been organized . More than 500 children were participated in various events & show their potentiality and an option to exchange the idea in different competitions like Spoon race, debate, dance, drawing, singing, music chair & creative writing and they expose their potentiality heroically. Children festival is especially for children where the children ensure the Right of participation. All the children got opportunity to enjoy in their participation in different events and competitions. They got the scope of learning. Prizes have been given to children who performed better in the competition & all the children were gifted by take home gifts.

Hellow…

We both sisters are very much happy to live together in family. We are continuing our schooling & higher education with your support. My younger sibling loved to play & learn with her friends. Her favorite play is Badminton. We are happy to meet our needs & requirement & can plan for our future life.

Thank You

SUPPORTERS & GLOBALGIVING for your generosity..