EMPOWERMENT OF GIRL CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT GIRLS THROUGH EDUCATIONAND SKILL TRAINING

“If you educate a man, you educate an individual. But, if you educate a woman, you educate an entire family” – Mahatma Gandhi

Submitted by:

DON BOSCO NAVAJEEVAN

H.No. 6-2-323, New Bhoiguda, Secunderabad – 500 003

Telangana State, INDIA

Project Title:Request for financial assistance towards maintenance of girls hostel for school dropouts, orphan girls, underprivileged girls at Hyderabad

1. ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
Name of organization / The Secunderabad Don Bosco Navajeevan Society
Known as ‘DON BOSCO NAVAJEEVAN’ (DBNJ)
Contact Address / Don Bosco Navajeevan
H.No. 6-2-323, New Bhoiguda
Secunderabad – 500 003, Telangana, INDIA

URL: dbnjhyd.org
Legal Holder of the Project & Address / Fr. Raminedi Balaraju, sdb
Provincial
Don Bosco Provincial House
Don Bosco Nagar Post
Himayatsagar Road, Bandlaguda Jagir
Hyderabad – 500 086, Telangana, INDIA

Name of the Chief Functionary , Designation & Address / Fr. Bellamkonda Sudhakar, Director
Don Bosco Navajeevan
H.No. 6-2-323, New Bhoiguda
Secunderabad – 500 003, Telangana, INDIA

Contact Number / +91-9985727032
Bank Details
Name of the Account :
Bank Account Number :
Name of the Bank:
Address of the Bank :
SWIFT CODE:
BANK CODE :
IBAN CODE: / The Secunderabad Don Bosco Navajeevan Society
0201-00327898-190001
The Catholic Syrian Bank Ltd.
Branch: Hyderabad
5-9-241 to 244, 1st Floor
Abids Road, Abids, Hyderabad – 500 001, Telangana, INDIA
ABN ADEFFF RA
50230400
DE60 5023 0400 5602 4351 07
Legal Status / a. Registered under A.P. (Telangana Area) Public SocietiesRegistration Act, 1350 Fasli (Act 1 of 1350 F).
b. Society Registration No:6990 of 1999, dated: 5th October, 1999.
c. FCRA Registration: Registered under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act at Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India on 22-02-2001Regn. NO. 010230474
d. Received license to run homes children as per G.O. No. 30, License No. 1682/3/2011.
Mission & Objectives / The Mission of Don Bosco Navajeevan Bala Bhavan is to empower street children/ youth so that they may be able to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. Its fundamental mission is to give them the tools to carve out a dignified future for themselves. To equip the marginalized child and provide her/him with the necessary resources the mission statement of Don Bosco Navajeevan is stated as “TO BE A RESOURCE CENTER THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE TO THE MARGINALISED CHILD.
Child Protection / Don Bosco Navajeevan follows the present Young at Risk (YaR) Child Protection Policy is an important step forward in this process. It is in consonance with the International treaties, conventions on child rights, policies and laws of the Indian Government and the guidelines of the Church.Reiterating the stand on the rights of the children and committing Salesians to their care and protection, Don Bosco Child Policy India sets six key priority areas for children in their care: Survival, health and nutrition; Education and Development; Protection; Participation; An Educative Environment of Preventive System; and Advocacy and Networking.
Geographic focus / The project is located in South India, in the state of Telangana, Hyderabad as its capital city. We have three centres in Hyderabad (i.e., New Bhoiguda near to Secunderabad Railway Station, Nampally near to Hyderabad Railway Station and a Rehabilitation Centre at Ramanthapur). The present proposal is a new centre located at Vanasthalipuram east side of Hyderabad. Our field staff visits 18 contact points in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad to rescue children at Risk.
2. PROJECT OVERVIEW
The Project / The present proposal is setup a Girls Hostel for Underprivileged girl children, school dropouts, begging children, orphans, child labour etc. and other Girls at Risk. Don Bosco Navajeevan in Hyderabad has experience of 15 years in rescue and rehabilitation of children and youth at risk. Till now we have facilities for boy children only, whenever we rescue girl children, we refer to other girl homes.
We are inspired to start a centre for girls as per the recommendations and results given by RAS (Rapid Assessment Survey) research team conducted in May, 2013. The situation of the girls is more vulnerable than boys in Hyderabad. As per survey, there were 1797 street involved children (based on head count) in Hyderabad city. Of this, there were 1427 boys and 370 girls, i.e. more than 20% are girls.Hence, we found the necessity to start a home for girls in the city of Hyderabad.
Another Survey conducted in collaboration with 10 NGOs working for children under the banner Network for Protection of Child Rights (NPCR) in January 2014 for 3 days only at Secunderabad Railway Station. We rescued about 65 children among them there were about 15-17 girls. Such operations can be organized often if someone comes forward and could support to rescue and provide care and protection.
To realize this project a lady by name Showrina in Hyderabad has donated a building to us to help girls who are need of care and protection.
Geographic focus / Hyderabad and Rangareddy Districts, Telangana State, INDIA
Estimated number of beneficiaries and their profile. / The project is estimated to provide accommodation for 30 girl children initially, but in later states the number of the beneficiaries will be increased.
Specific Objectives / Objectives:
a.To rescue street involved girl children
b.To provide basic needs
c.To provide Formal Education / Vocational Training
d.To counsel the child to make positive and correct choice.
e.To motivate the child to go back home if there is a “Home” for her to go to.
f.To make every effort to rehabilitate the child.
g.Promote networking with people of all walks of life and creating social supports that contributes towards the dignity of the child.
Activities the project undertake to achieve its objectives
/ a.The contact points are already identified to rescue children
b.The residential facilities are available for the immediate commencement of the Project. Renovation of the building to be done.
c.Have to appoint full time staff to take care of the children
d.Training to the staff after appointment.
e.Build rapport with schools for the enrolment of the children and building rapport also with other departments.
f.Review and monitoring of the project at periodical intervals.
Any other relevant information
/ Don Bosco Navajeevan is a child-friendly centre started its services in 1999 for the welfare of children and youth a risk. Presently, we are taking care of around 300 boys in our three different centres in Hyderabad.
In Don Bosco Navajeevan, so far around 22,000 children and youth at risk have benefited from personal contact, out of which 9,300 have been persuaded to return home. These children are provided three meals a day, medical care and clothes during their stay at DBNJ. More than 300 street children stay in all the centres of Don Bosco Navajeevan where 220 of them are given an opportunity to go to school and the rest are undergoing vocational training at our Technical School. At an average 50 floating children are always present at shelter. We are also running a day care centre at a slum where 40 children and youth are assisted through our services.
We collaborate with Women & Child Welfare Department to rescue and organize rescue operations at regular intervals and rehabilated many street involved boys and girls as per their need.

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