Project Brief: Support the operating budget for Aangan - the day care center
Project Type: Child Home (description)
Primary Focus: children from slums (description)

Secondary Focus: girls

Area: Urban
Supporting Chapter Contact:
St. Louis

Status: CURRENT
Project Steward: Charu Katyal
Project Partner(s): Amit Sinha
Project Address: Jamghat (A Group of Street Children) - Aangan Daycare
F 2
Fourth Floor
Lado Sarai, Delhi 110030
Tel: 91-9818705715
Stewarding Chapter: St. Louis

Jamghat started an initiative for a day care centre in 2009 called Aangan. The daycare works with the most vulnerable of street children through this centre.

Asha St. Louis is helping fund the requirement for smooth running of our Day care centre.

In partnership with Max India Foundation, the Day Care Centre offers food, bathing facilities, formal and non-formal education opportunities, and a safe place to be a child off the streets of Old Delhi to 30-50 children every day.

The children arrive at 10am and leave at 6pm. Every day they have their personal washing time, informal learning, game time, many other activities and most importantly a safe place for the day with caring volunteers.

Activities at the centre include games, workshops, arts, sexual education and literary activities.

Additionally, a doctor from the Max chain of Hospitals provides weekly medical check-ups for the children.

Jamghat works to provide further support to any children interested in vocational or educational training. Some children have started attending a regular formal education which is very encouraging and hopefully more and more will follow suit.

Some children do go back to the street, however, providing them a safe environment during the day is the best way to keep them out of trouble and a solid foundation of a happy childhood in order to aspire for more in their adult lives.

The funds from Asha will meet education expenses in the centre along with the staff salaries for 8 months.