Give 400 needy children & youths a future in India

At the end of November, we visited our project sites in India. In Varanasi, in Robertsganj/Sonbhadra and in Samastipur/Bihar. We look positively into the future, although we are constantly confronted with new challenges.

The Government in India has decided that all child relief programs of the ChildLine India Foundation throughout India will in future be operated by the ministry itself. This means that our program at the train station in Varanasi stopped at the end of last year. This is a great shame because we worked very successfully and were able to pick up and care for over 200 children and young people in need in one year and hand them over to either their families or social institutions. We have to reorganize ourselves in Varanasi and see in what form we can carry out projects in the future.

We are running our program very successfully at our Keshwa Child Welfare Center in Robertsganj, Sonbhadra. Our school is growing, and we urgently need a second school bus to be able to transport all the children from the surrounding villages who would otherwise not go to school. The special Open Center Home program for 30 boys from poor families is stable and the children are integrated into school.

Within nine months in 2023 we will have trained 90 young women in sewing and fashion design, with another 30 to follow by the end of March 2024. This will mean we will meet our plan of 120 women in one year. The support of people with disabilities as well as the care program for people in the villages (outreach) and the promotion of women run parallel to the major programs mentioned.

In Samastipur in Bihar, two orphans were again given new families in 2023 and have a new future ahead of them. In total, we have placed more than 20 children since the program began and almost 200 children who ran away from home have been successfully either returned to family members or handed over to social institutions.

A successful year that opened up new perspectives for children, women and families has come to an end, but there is already a lot on the “wish list”. A second school bus is a priority, a possible expansion of the school is on the agenda and further attempts to obtain government-funded programs.

The team of 30 employees of our partner organization Creation India Society is motivated. We believe that we can help even more people with your extraordinary financial support.

Thank you so much for being so generous.