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Support 11500 kids out of child labour & poverty

Summary

Helping children and their families from 'untouchable' communities in rural India escape poverty, child-labor in cigarette factories, & ill-health through education, health care & livelihood support progress reportread updates from the field


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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Caste & religious discrimination results in these families being dependent on bonded labor rolling raw tobacco into cigarettes. Children are at risk through exposure to the tobacco atmosphere in the womb, as infants & as child-laborers (from 7 yrs old). The children are from low-caste Hindu, Tribal & Muslim families who are uneducated, do not own land or have alternative livelihoods.11500 children in the project villages will be helped, along with their families; a total of 40,000 people.

Activities

Providing an integrated program of education, health-care & livelihood schemes stopping child labor, including provision of access to education (20 pre-school and crèche facilities), mobile health clinics & micro-finance self-help savings groups.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £2,892
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £27,097
Total Funding Goal: £29,989

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Each child can access education, proper health care, nutrition, and recreation to enable them to have a childhood free from child-labour and child-marriage, and to support their overall development and the completion of their education.

Project Message

"I have to work hard but I think that I will see a different future for Vanita and Rishikesh.Before, I used to wonder ‘what is all this work for?’, but now I see them happy and learning
- Anita Jedgule, Cigarette - 'bidi' - worker and mother.

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Steven Murdoch,
Staff Member
Karuna Trust
72 Holloway Rd
London, UK N7 8JG
United Kingdom
02077003434
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Project Sponsor

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Organisation

Karuna Trust Logo Karuna Trust
72 Holloway Road
London, England N7 8JG
United Kingdom
+44 (0)207 700 3434
http://www.karuna.org/

Learn more about Karuna Trust and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Children.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on April 29, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 17, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

The story of Mrs Bhagubai Ashok Tajanpure

By Dryan Kitchener - Programme Manager, August 07, 2008 05:15 PM

Mrs. Bhagubai Tajanpure with her goats.
A story of one of the beneficiaries that exemplifies the work of the project:

Bhagubai [age 42] from Saikhindi village belongs to a very poor family. Her husband works on daily wages and Bhagubai works in the Bidi-rolling factory to make ends meet. She could continue schooling only till 3rd standard after which she had to leave school to support her family.

With the help of Karuna NISD started working with the women in the Bidi factory. At that time Bhagubai attended all the awareness programs conducted by the organization; later becoming involved in a Self Help Group (SHG). She attended almost all the trainings organised by NISD and the Income generation training proved to be a turning point in her life. With the guidance provided she decided to start her own income generation to support her family income. Her SHG group sanctioned her loan application, giving her loan of Rs.10,000 for a goat herd. She started her small goat herd from which she obtained milk for children, goats for sale, female goats to expand her herd and also manure for her small farm.

As she started getting a good income she repaid the loan easily. She also leveled her three acre uneven barren land and made it productive. By keeping some money aside and taking a further loan from the SHG, in 2006 the family dug a well in their land. Because of water availability and their hard work they started getting even more income from their land.

Bhagubai’s financial status improved but still she wished to have a good house for her family because her house was just a hut, which was not safe and secure. Bhagubai got information in her SHG meeting about a housing program assisted by Habitat for Humanity. She had some savings but her SHG group did not have access to sufficient funds to support her. So she applied for a loan from the SHG Federation. Seeing her track record the Federation sanctioned her loan application and she constructed a house in 2007.

Bhagubai and her husband do not want their children to face the problems they faced due to poverty. They want to give them a good education. Bhagubai has reduced her bidi-rolling work and is now concentrating on her goats and on agriculture, which give her family a better standard of living.

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