By Savarinathan Maria Arasu | Founder Director
Summary
This program aims to educate and empower children in slums and rural areas of Puducherry by offering evening remedial classes, counselling services, awareness and community-sensitizing programs.
Challenge
The government is trying to eradicate illiteracy and poverty through different programs. Sometimes, it is not reaching the unreached. The underprivileged children born into poverty and live in rural slums and rural villages are affected by a variety of societal challenges that prevents them from achieving their goals. For example, factors such as unemployment and alcoholism within the family, single parenthood, neglect and abandonment, force children to become labourers either during or after school. Illiterate parents can't assist in doing homework, worsening children's disinterest in education. Additionally, limited educational resources, poor infrastructure leave these children behind.
Solution
Educating young generation is one of the nation building activities. Nevertheless the initiatives taken up by the government, Prime Trust is keen to bring tangible change in the community by offering education to the children. Evening school is one such tool that would help us to achieve the goal. The schools educates through remedial classes and experiential learning. We will also frequently conduct awareness programs related to physical, psychological and social issues faced by children. We will also provide counselling services during these hours. We will also teach them their rights and how to access them. The evening school will provide children with a structured after school environment; helping them spend time in a productive way towards their education.
Long-Term Impact
The main goal is to empower and reenergize the children to make their dreams come true. The awareness generation programs and counselling services will address needs of the children. We hope that awareness about oneself and society will help these children to develop a strong personal identity paired with coping and life skills. In addition, we hope that the children take these lessons into their adulthood.
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Summary
This proposal is submitted to gain support from well-wishers to help our children to own a new building which provides them all required facilities and until then to pay rent for the existing building. As you know, Prime Trust is running the project for abandoned girl children since 2013. We have at present 10 children live in our home. They do not have their parents and dependent on us. The children are from the age group of 5-17. They get safe accommodation, food, education, and health car
Challenge
The government wants us to shift the children from the existing premises to a spacious building where the children can get all facilities as per the Juvenile Justice Act in India. Our licence to run the home might be cancelled if we do not provide a spacious building.
Solution
By raising support from our donors, we can move our children to a new rental building which has got all the required facilities.
Long-Term Impact
The new premises will provide a good ambiance and it will boost the moral of the children, provide all facilities needed.
Resourceswww.primetrust-org.inhttps://www.facebook.com/Jananihomeforgirls
Summary
Prime Trust tries to support and help those living in the shadows of society in Pondicherry. Our aim is to establish a centre for the homeless and offer them services to improve their quality of life. Our project will provide empowerment, counselling, de-addiction and vocational training to help these individuals transition from a life of poverty to integrated members of our society.
The urban poor and homeless individuals of Pondicherry suffer many challenges. The photo above shows children, sitting in what is their home. Entire families raise their young and live off the scarps they get from the streets. Though there is some government support available, these individuals struggle to find access to these limited resources. Their lack of financial resources, education and home stability result in them living in cycles of poverty and homelessness.
During the heavy rainfall nowadays, the most affected, however, are the homeless who have no roof above their heads.
Most of them wait till the shops close at night to find a half shelter on the pavement in front of the shops or sleep under flyovers. “During the rains we cover ourselves with a plastic sheet. But the chillness makes the skin swell by morning,” says Lakshmi, who lives on the streets near Mission. Today, she is the mother of two teenagers, but a sheltered home has evaded her over the years.
Children on the streets are affected too. “I had to spend Rs 250 on my children after the last rains due to fever and sickness. Once a rat bit our child.” says Meena, who stays in the same pavement.
Social activists point out that in spite of the Supreme Court directions, the government has failed to provide shelter to its poor. “The people who migrated to the cities from neighbouring districts generations ago are still without shelter. In the case of people like construction labourers, the rainy season means no work. So they fall into debt during the period and this goes on. Construction workers who migrated from various places and built our biggest residential areas like Anna Nagar and K K Nagar are still homeless today,” says R Geetha of the Unorganised Workers Federation.
Solution
In 2017, we aim to support 10 homeless women with children at our Homeless Centre. At our Centre we will provide them services such as counselling, domestic violence protection, de-addiction and rehabilitation support. We will also arrange access to vocational training and micro-credit opportunities to help them achieve financial stability. Children will be provided proper education and access to any of the evening schools of Prime Trust.
Long-Term Impact
To empower and support these individuals reintegrate into society without having to live on the streets. Updates Prime Trust with its team supports the individuals by providing awareness education on Saturdays provides counselling, support the children with school supplies. The children are motivated to attend evening remedial classes at our centre.
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