Project Title: MAA - Child education & skill development Center
Project Background:
Visakhapatnam is the second largest city in Andhra Pradesh. Due to
industrialisation and migration, number of slums in the city are getting added
every year to the existing slums. Some of the slums like Kobbarithota,
Kallupakulu, Neredukoneru etc are famous for sex workers. Most of the women in
these areas are deserted, single women families, having no source of regular
income. Some of them are living as sex workers etc. due to the socio economic conditions.
Due to their living conditions, the women in these slums are unable to take
proper care of their children. The male children do not go to schools and
become rag pickers, child labour etc. The girl children are very much
influenced to follow their mother’s path and enter into child prostitution,
child labour etc. There is an urgent need to motivate the women, create
awareness in them about the future of their children. Mahila Action has already
initiated some activities to mothers such as formations of SHG’s, income
generation activities and identified number of children especially girls who
need to be taken care to better their future.
Project Title:About the project:
There are number of children in the slums of Visakhapatnam city, especially
girls. The mothers are unable to take care of their children due to the living
conditions. If the situation is continued like this number of children may be
victimised and it will eventually spoil their future. Hence, we are proposing
to run a child education and skill development centre.
Target Group:
* School dropouts and children not attending to schools
* Child labour
* 50 children under regular education with a concept of bridge course.
* 50 children under counseling services and tuitions
* About 200 women under motivation and awareness generation
Short Term objectives:
* To create awareness among women slum dwellers to take care of their children to
ensure a better future for them
* To run a child education and development centre to benefit about 100 children
directly and indirectly.
* To provide skill development and vocational training to teenage children.
Long term objectives:
* To educate the children through bridge courses and admit them in normal
schools for complete school education
* To help the children lead their future with self-respect and dignity
* To equip the children with skill and vocational training for self reliance
* To bring about an awareness among the women, which will help them, create a better future for their
children.
Project Activities:
* Establish a centre to run bridge courses and vocational training/skill
development activities.
* Run regular classes for school dropouts/non-school going children and admit
them in a nearby regular school.
* Provide nutrition and health to these children.
* Run regular counseling services to mothers through the above centre.
* Try to solve the problem of mothers, girl child and child labour.
* Provide moral and economic support through different local linkage programs Project period: 3 years
Budget Non-Recurring:
Furniture & Equipment’s like table, Chairs, black board, charts, Almiraha,
Racks, sports and games items, kitchen Ware etc. - 20,000
Recurring: - Salary to 2 teachers +1 vocational teacher Rs.1500 x 3nos x
12 months - 54,000
- Salary to Ayah Rs. 1000 x 12 months - 12,000
- Nutrition/mid day meal Rs.5 x 50 children 25 days x 12 months - 75,000
- Health care, entertainment sports & games Rs. 1000 x 12 months - 12,000
- Rent for centre with water/electricity Rs.1500 x 50 children - 18,000
- Educational material, text books, note books Rs.500 x 50 children - 25,000
- Reporting, press, publicity, photos - 5,000
- Misc. and unforeseen expenses - 6,000
Total: 2,07,000 (Support needed for II and III year recurring expenses
only)
