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. During the years, 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. All 100 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 continued the support of Dry food ration, Dress materials & 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. During this period, children have been appeared the academic examination and promoted to the higher classes. The children are enrolled in new sessions and enjoying at schools in fun activities in their learning with new friends and school mates.

Summer 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. YCDA has created the opportunity for the children and organized 3 days summer 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 dance, yoga, creative art, drawing. Children learnt creative work on paper and games. They enjoyed dancing, 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 the opportunity of recreation and basic entertainment. This camp has been resulted to enhance the participation & potentiality of the children and make them efficient for leadership quality.

Stakeholders Interface Meeting on family-based care models:

A platform for the interface for the children in need of care & protection along with caregivers has been provided. With the objective of establishing the convergence and coordination among the children and stakeholders one stakeholder’s meet has been organized for one day at Boudh district. A friendly environment has been created for the children. 88 participants along with the children, DCPU staffs, CWC, Education department and care givers were participated in the programme. In the meet, progress of the children be in a family environment have been tracked and different issues was discussed, and different protection mechanisms had given their consent on monitoring and support to the children living with difficult situation. All the children also had the opportunity of meet with the stakeholders and in a common place and share their experience and challenges. Children enjoyed the meet by singing, storytelling, jokes telling, playing, and talking. All the stakeholders took an active part and appreciated the children’s participation and encouraged them with a token of gifts for their happiness and wellbeing.

Celebrating International Day of Families:

As we all know, International Family Day highlights the importance of the family as a fundamental part of society. May 15 was declared International Family Day by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993. Every year the 15^th May is celebrated as the International Day of Families to raise awareness of the importance and value of families and to draw their attention to the difficulties that impact among families & around the world. YCDA with the support of GlobalGiving celebrated the International Day of Families with the families, children, stakeholders, govt. officials, linkeminded CSOs and Media personnel with an objective to disseminate the concept of Family Based Care models among the stakeholders , families & children .We believe that Family is the best place for a child and a child has a right to live in a loving & caring Family and we are working with different alternative family-based care models i.e Fostercare, Kinship care, Sponsorship where children are living and getting their rights. More than 135 families, children & stakeholders participated and shared their valuable talk on the importance & values of family in lives of each and every individual that too for a Child its very much. We showcased the different existing models of families with a live experiences sharing & Families have been appreciated for their remarkable support for bringing up the child in a family environment with love & care for their growth & development.

Thank you, all supporters, to support us ….

We are very happy to keep our grandchildren with us. We gave them care, love, and fulling their every needs. Children are very happy to be with us in a family. Sometimes they also look after us and help us with their positive behavior to groom them in a well manner. Our grand daughter & son loved to play and listen to stories from me. We both enjoyed ourselves a lot at home. We are happy to keep the children with us with your support and think of their bright future in the family environment.

Thank You

SUPPORTERS & GLOBAL GIVING for your generosity