Education India Project #2242

Rescue Junction Supports Street Children in India

by People First Educational Charitable Trust

Rescue Junction Supports Street Children in India

Project Report | Feb 26, 2014
Abuse on an industrial scale- we are coming after you!

By Sunita Sharma | Rescue Project Director

Rescued Children arriving at Station

Hi Everyone,

I am Sunita Sharma the Director of Rescue Junction

All the best to you and your families for 2014!

I think you will remember "Operation Bangle" where large numbers of children were rescued from factories in Rajasthan. What we could not tell you at that time was that Operation Bangle Part two had already started , where the Rajasthan Police were continuing to work with the Labour Department and ouselves in identifying other factories where children might be employed.

Under Indian Law it is no longer legal to employ children and the employer can be fined 20,000 rupees for each child which has to go to helping them get an education. Unfortunately in Rajasthan, and all over India the law is still being flouted and not adequately enforced. (it helps sometimes if there is an active NGO metaphorically ratting the children's cages until they burst open).

As a result of "Bangle Two" a further 80 child labourers have been rescued from different factories in Rajasthan who came from all over Bihar. An extra coach had to be added to an express train to bring them home. We want to send a clear message to those who use children for lining their own pockets, wherever we find you - we are coming after you! This is not a case of a son or daughter helping out in the family fields or local shop, these children are mostly under the age of 14 years- some only 9 or 10, this is organised crime for business profit and is a disgrace. With their profits gained from cheap child labour the factory owners and child catchers send their own children to posh private schools - shame on you, shame on you!

These children deserve as much care and protection and education as any other child .

We are determined to do what we can with your help to stop this abuse of innocence, wherever and whenever we find it. For this we need your support, and as always I send my heartfelt appreciation to you all.

Please follow our work on Facebook the link is below as we do try and keep it up to date and you can see our work there.

And a special message for supporters in the UK from March 3rd if you give to Global Giving UK they will give one pound for every two you give for one week only. This is on Global Giving UK only- the link is below

We are motivated here by your support and we really do need it, no big organisation supports us so thank you all again,

Sunita

Rescued Children at Rescue Junction

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Dec 6, 2013
What a year that was!

By Sunita Sharma | Rescue Project Director

Spreading the word for helping children

Hi everyone,

This is Sunita Sharma, Project Director of the Gaya Rescue project. Here at Rescue Junction during the past year we have had a record number of street children, homeless children, missing children and trafficked children come through our doors.

I am sure you all remember all the project updates on Global Giving including all those children rescued from Jaipur at the Bangle factory, for just one example. Now of course we are the centre for the 24 hour toll free number 1098 childline for children in distess, and please see the photo of myself giving the most senior police officer in Gaya a childline friendship band helping to spread the word with my team in the community, and bringing the issues of child labor and abuse into the forefront.

In my next report I will let you know the exact numbers going through the centre this year in my next report to you, but what a year it has been.

We also admitted several abandoned baby girls one thrown by a river bank in a sealed bag and who is very lucky to be alive. She has been placed for adoption by an Indian family.

And just a gentle reminder our winter warmth appeal which can be life saving is now on Global Giving here,

http://www.globalgiving.org/microprojects/save-a-childs-life-this-winter-1-1

I asked some of our regular street children to write a little about what the centre means to them, this is what they wrote,

"We are children who live on the station, because we do not know where are parents or families are. Some us have been abandoned here, some ran away because of abuse. Before Rescue Junction nobody cared about us - nobody. We understand that everything at the centre the food we get, the night shelter ,the education toys and games .and people who care about us all comes from the kindness of others who are thinking about us and want to help us start a new life. We do not feel we can say just how much this means to us it is such a wonderful thing. We do not have the words to say how gratefull we are to you all"

Thank you so much". ( translated from Hindi)

Please help us keep our doors open . We need to raise $20,000 next year to help us maintain all our services for the most vulnerable children and young people.

So please help us.

And thank you for everything you have already helped us achieve.

Have a good festive season and we hope you and your family are all well,

from Sunita

Staff on the Railway Station

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Oct 9, 2013
A Haven of Safety and Security

By Sunita Sharma | Project Director

Abandoned Children at Rescue Junction

Hi everyone!

I am so sorry for being a little late with this report we have been so busy ay the centre. If you visit our face book page here https://www.facebook.com/pages/People-First-India/106083302779969 you will see we have another group of supporters visiting the trust at the moment, here is what one person wrote in the visitors book ,

"When we had finished playing games with the children ( it was musical chairs) we were enjoying a cup of tea in the office when some anxious parents arrived. They had a picture of their son, aged 11 years on their phone. He had gone missing one month previously whist outside playing and it was feared that he had been probably abducted . They had come to Rescue Junction as Sunita had called them and told them to see her immediately as she had good news to tell them. Through the work of the specialist staff at the centre her son had been found ( over 1,000 km away) safe and well. The mother burst into tears with absolute relief and was comforted by the staff, even the father was overcome and could only mutter thank you- thank you so much!!

Anybody that spends some time here cannot fail to be impressed with the happiness of the children, the great need for the work they do here, and the absolute dedication of the staff,

I certainly will try and help and I would recommended anybody else to do so, it is a haven of safety and security in a dangerous part of the world, especially for children".

Thank you for your fantastic support everyone, if you time please take a little time to look at the full video of the centers work which can be found here, already nearly 15,000 people have watched it. http://youtu.be/nBBB-B9Lf1A

With Thanks to you all,

Sunita

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