The project works with child labourers living on construction sites with their parents, who are migrants. These children have no access to education and are living in hazardous environment at sites. We aim to connect these children back to mainstream education by providing informal education & basic nutrition support. Every year we support around 250 children & to date we have enrolled more than 11,700 children in our classes and have steered around 500 of these children to formal schools.
In India, an estimated 10.1 million children are engaged in child labour, working to support their families' meagre incomes. Gujarat ranks ninth among India's 28 states in the prevalence of child labour. Migrant children at construction sites remain invisible - excluded from education and exposed to hazardous work. Deprived of learning opportunities, they unknowingly become child labourers instead of students. Most have never held a pencil, yet they can lift bricks and mix cement.
We run an integrated programme that gives every child a chance to learn and grow safely. i) We provide non-formal education within the child's working day, bringing learning to where they are. ii) We support families through livelihood and skill development. iii) We offer nutritional support to ensure children stay healthy. iv) Regular health check-ups. v) Parent-teacher meetings strengthen family involvement in education. vi) We enrol children into formal schools, reconnecting them to education
Our work has the power to transform the futures of children who would otherwise remain trapped in labour with no path to education. By building literacy and opening doors to formal schooling, we give them the tools to dream, to learn, and to break free from the cycle of poverty. Each child who enters a classroom today moves one step closer to a life of dignity, opportunity, and lasting change.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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