WELCOME to Gird

PROJECT IN BRIEF:

'SHELTER' is to provide safety, security, health care, nutrition and education for the street children without encouraging the child to become dependent either on the shelter or the organization that runs it. People responsible for this kind of shelter must clearly interact with the street children. They must enable situations where such children can come together and get the attention they badly need. They must also strengthen and constructively direct their dependence, while encouraging intern dependence.

STREET CHILDREN IMAGE:

Street children are those for whom the street (in the widest sense of the word i.e. un occupied dwellings, waste lands etc) more than their family, has become their need home, a situation in which there is no protection, supervision or direction from responsible adults. Popular perceptions about street children concerning their family's future and the children themselves are mentioned here.

About their families:

Their families have abandoned them.
They have been away from home because of sexual abuse.
They are the result of the broken family.
They have no contacts with the families.
Their families have disintegrated because of poverty.

About their futures:

They will grow up to be criminals.
They will not survive adult hood.
They can't be rehabilitated.
They will turn into terrorists and revolutionaries.

About their present condition:

They are starving
They are thieves
They have no choice but to become prostitutes
They are uncontrollably violent
They have lost all ability to feel emotions such as love and affection
They do not know morals.
They are drug addicts.
They have AIDS.

These will apply to some children on the street and some times, others are untrue or unproven, but all of them have been applied. Street children spend the nights in the streets, stay applet, get little sleep and are exposed to passers by as abandoned, homeless, tramps, thieves or juvenile delinquents.

AT HOME IN THE STREET:

On the street, home is a shop doorway, foot path, a bench in a square, a hot air duct outside a restaurant, the corridor of bus stand, the steps of railway station. Bed is a piece of card-board, an old kittan (jute bag), a torn blanket, news papers, cinema wall posters and torn cloth banners, some sleep alone, others huddle together for warmth or protection. They never know when they might be woken up by a policeman's boot or by nature's grace (rain).

There different groups of children disputed between 'in' and 'of' the streets mentioned here under named 'C1, C2 and C3' respectively.

'C1' - Children who come from rural areas and would be willing to go back.

'C2' - Children who live in gangs in towns and have contact with their families.

'C3 '- Children who are completely on their own.

At this juncture in the common point of view i.e. considering three categories of the street children, named as 'C1, C2 and C3' mentioned, that we are mainly concentrating at the cadre of 'C3' and the need assessment for which is as follows and they would be our targeted groups.

NEED ASSESSMENT:

They are in need to learn social skills such as shopping, washing their own clothes or to develop the social skills of making decisions or forming emotional relationship with others.
They are in need to develop their potential, which is less not only to them but also to the community and nation.
They are in need to learn about health, hygiene, moral, table manners and cleanliness.
An introduction to life style events such as births and weddings and explaining the appropriate behaviors required and significance attached to them.
Need of love and affection.
Need of Schooling, developing skills through education and vocational training, to be positive about their future.
Need care and protection from police harassment and public distractions.

WHY STREET CHILDREN NEED SHELTER:

Safety and security from the police harassment even violence since the police are torture to the street children, getting facility or place to sleep un disturbed, a place to wash clothes, a place to take bath, a place to look for food, safety and security could be provided, care and protection, perceive resources to be available could be provided, emergency treatment when necessary and educational opportunities, collectively they can set up standard of behavior. Hence, for the street children shelter is the need and the must.

OBJECTIVES:

To provide shelter includes safety, sociality and security,
To provide balanced nutritious food,
To provide clothes,
To provide health care and follow-ups,
To boost love and care to the unfortunate and vulnerable street children.
To provide hygienic facilities and entertainment facilities.
To provide formal education
To provide extra curricular activities to develop their skills,
To provide vocational training according their ability, interest and skills,
To provide periodical counseling and guidance and
To conduct non-formal education also and vocational training to these children and try to set up gainful employment and make them good and useful citizens of tomorrow and make them to stand on their own feet.