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Our Projects - Street Children Outreach Project |
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"WAY TRUE LIFE " provides non-formal street schools to ensure that working children get at least a basic education. We nurture community support for our schools and seek to mainstream suitable children into the government education system. We also provide popular and practical vocational training where older children can learn skills while also earning some money. |
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Gender Discrimination: |
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In Indian Society females are often discriminated against. Their health, education, prosperity and freedom are all impacted. The problem is worse in conservative Maharashtra, (Thane, Mumbai)than almost anywhere else in India. |
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Gender discrimination is particularly evident in education where boys are more likely to attend school and to do so for more years. The traditional place of the woman is in the home and so many parents and children consider education for girls to be a waste of time, especially when the child can instead be working or performing domestic chores. Only 38% of Indian women are literate and, at 64%, the gender parity between literacy rates amongst Indian women and men is one of the most unequal in the world. |
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Child Marriage is another way in which girls are disadvantaged. In addition to limiting educational possibilities and stunting personal development, early marriage carries health risks. A girl under 15 is five times more likely to die during pregnancy than a woman in her twenties; her child is also more likely to die. |
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"WAY TRUE LIFE " emphasizes care and opportunity for girls. There are more girls than boys in our street Balwadi slum community schools, vocational Tailoring centre and slum community rag picking on the street, dumping ground. We also employ many women and do so at all level. We search job for them. |
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| The HIV/AIDS rate amongst Indian adults is 0.7% and so has not yet reached the epidemic rates experienced in Southern Africa. However, this still represents 5 million people, or about 1 in 7 in of those in the world who have the disease. The rate amongst children is lower, but because street children are far more sexually active than their Indian peers and because many are even prostitutes they are thus hugely at risk of contracting the disease. AIDS awareness, testing and treatment exist, but less so for street children than other demographic groups. |
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| "WAY TRUE LIFE "provides nutrition, medical treatment, plus hygiene and reproductive health care, cloths education to children in our street outreach on Railway Street to teach non formal education in schools project and Children homes project. We run an AIDS awareness program targeting an additional at-risk children. |
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| Children that work are not only subject to the strains and hazards of their labour, but are also denied the education or training that could enable them to escape the poverty trap. |
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| Homelessness: |
| Street children in India may be homeless because their family is homeless through poverty or migration, or because they have been abandoned, orphaned or have run away. It is not unusual to see whole families living on the sidewalks of Kalyan, or rows of individual children sleeping around the railway station. |
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| Homeless children have the odds stacked against them. They are exposed to the elements, have an uncertain supply of food, are likely miss out on education and medical treatment, and are at high risk of suffering addiction, abuse and illness. A single child alone on the streets is especially vulnerable. |
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