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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: £13,572
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £0
Total Funding Goal: £12,187

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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Organisation

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

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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 December 22, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

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

Latest Update from the Field

Heroic Harshida

By Jilna Shah - Project Leader, December 19, 2011 12:25 PM

Harshida reading to the class
Harshida reading to the class

Harshida's Story - aged 7

 

Harshada’s parents, both mother and father, are working as wage labours and  whole day they are away from home.  Harshada’s old grand mother is the only person at home to look after three small kids which was beyond her capacity.  Their financial condition is very poor and the parents somehow manage the house expenses.

Harshada was very shy  girl and  was having inferiority complex.  That was the reason she was not able to mix with other children.  However three year back she joined in the pre-school centre, started by NISD, and there were number of changes took place in her overall personality.  She started taking interest in her studies, different plays, songs etc.  As her interest increased she was coming regularly in the pre-school.  Her hand writing is very beautiful. She also took part in number of competitions and gain confidence.

Last  June  she was enrolled in the formal school in the first standard.  When meet her class teacher, he told she is very clever and active girl.  Her hand writing is beautiful.  She sings songs, good in play, won in school competition, she is good in studies, and she never bunks her class.  She is  best student of our class and school.  Not only that but she gives speeches very well.  Comparative to other students she is  very good at reading, writing, story telling, singling  etc.

Harshada’s  younger brother and sister also attend the pre-school regularly.  Thanks to you for supporting NISD to run pre-school activities and for shaping  future of    displaced tribal  children like Harshada.

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