Shishuadhar - For the Child
Educational Sponsorship Program was started in 1993 and so far Shishuadhar has offered sponsorship to 175 children. Under this program, financial assistance is given primarily to meet educational needs of the children. Assistance for medical and nutritional needs is also given as per the requirement. Counseling, follow up, personality development camps and family life education sessions are integral parts of the program. Rs. 2,400/- per child per year are required for all these activities. No Government grants are available for this program and the organization has to rely totally on the support from the community. Presently 50 children are being sponsored by Shishuadhar.
The Program of Child Care Assistance, commonly known as the Bal-Sangopan Yojana offers financial assistance for care and maintenance of a child within the family. The assistance is offered to widowed, deserted or single mothers for care of their children or to the foster parents for care of orphaned children. The program helps families below the poverty line and prevents abandonment and institutionalization of children. Shishuadhar implements this program in Pune, Solapur, Latur, Osmanabad and Nasik districts and helps about 350 children spread over these districts. The organization has to raise approximately Rs. 1,00,000/- per year so that children could be cared for, in their own families.
Shishuadhar co-ordinates adoption work of 14 Recognized Adoption Placement Agencies spread over 8 districts of Maharashtra. It makes extensive efforts to find Indian adoptive families for orphaned and abandoned children so that they get loving parents and a secure home.
The Hermann Gmeiner Social Centre (HGSC), for Street Children
The Hermann Gmeiner Social Centre for Streetchildren in Pune worries since November 1996 about road children. Its goal is it to integrate road children again into the society to open and to them so a future and to prevent a gliding into the criminality. Approx. 60 children, at the age of 5-18 years, are cared for by three engaged social workers during the day in the center. The children remain in their used environment and at their families, which are dependent for surviving on the additional income of the children.
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