INTEGRATED PROGRAMME FOR STREET CHLIDREN, CHILD LABOUR; CHILDREN IN SLUMS, (SOUTH AND NORTH KOLKATA):

PROJECT OBJECTIVE
An overall development of children of slum and street dwellers through education,
health care and vocational skill development.

TARGET GROUP:
Children in the age group of 6-15 years.

PROJECT AREA:
The centers are situated in the area adjoining of:

The Crematorium of Kalighat, Ward 88 (72 Children),
Kumartully ward 9 (80 Children),
Panchanantala ward 90 ( 50 Children),
5 star club (60 Children),
Tala Tank and Pallymangal, Ward 6,under KMC (36   Children),
Under KMC, Borough 1

WIF is running 3 education center Akra platform ward 21, Akra Phatak ward 7 and Santoshpur ward 16 under Maheshtala Municipality, 24 Parganas (S).

ACTIVITIES

Non- Formal Education for children from 6 years to 16 years.

Remedial classes for mainstreamed school going children: WIF started remedial education to prevent dropouts. These classes motivate the students and create interest towards studies.

Monthly Mother’s Meetings: Mothers are provided by an updated progress report of their children along with tips on the general health care of their children.

Vocational Training :

Recreation : WIF organizes various recreational programs through out the year. In the month of October 2005, on the occasion of Durga Puja, the biggest festivals of West Bengal, new clothes were distributed among the children., A get together was organized, where the children were provided with special nutrition after their return from puja break.
- On 1st December 2005,World AIDS Day was observed, WIF set up a booth at an important road crossing.. At the booth, as part of awareness generation, a video film on AIDS was shown. Leaflets, pamphlets and condoms were distributed and a cultural group ‘Sharmistha Cultural Group’ staged a street drama. The project staff, teachers and helpers participated in this program

NABODISHA PROJECT

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

To provide education to the street children and to sensitize the enforcement machinery.

TARGET GROUP

Children in the age group of 5 yrs to 14 yrs.

PROJECT AREA:

In collaboration with Kolkata Police, WIF runs Nabodisha Project for Street Children in 9 Police Stations at :

Ballygunge, ward 69
Bhawanipore, ward 72
Chetla, ward 82
Amherstreet, ward 38
Manicktala, ward 15
Jorasankho, ward 20
Ultadanga, ward 12
Tangra, ward 57, and
Jorabagan, ward 20

On 23rd January 2006 Commissioner of Police Mr. Prasun Mukerjee gave the charge of 11 New Nabodisha to WIF at the followings PS :

Charumarket
Alipore
New Alipore
Burtolla
Shyampukur
Chitpur
Belghata
Entally
Posta
Girish Park
Burrabazar


ACTIVITIES

Non Formal Education

WIF provides non-formal education children who are now familiar with alphabets and numbers and are able to write words and sentences.

REMEDIAL

Remedial class provides support to prevent dropouts. . The teachers help the children with their studies.

NUTRITION

WIF provided supplementary nutrition such as bread, bun, jaggery, eggs or seasonal fruits.

HEALTH

The Supervisor and the teacher generate awareness on personal Health and hygiene. In case of illness Doctors from Lions Club of District B1 and B2 attaints the children. Lions Club also organizes Health camp once every month, where Doctors conduct routine check ups and prescribes medicine.

RECREATION

There have been various trips and programmes organised for the children for recreational purposes.

PROJECTS IN RED LIGHT AREAS
The main projects that are handled by WIF in these areas are

INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (ICDS)

PROJECT OBJECTIVE:

To promote an all round development including cognitive, physical and social upliftment of the children of Sex workers
To generate awareness in regard to the health status of the children.
Generate awareness in regard to the health status of the children

TARGET GROUP: Children from 0- 3 yrs and 3 – 6 yrs

PROJECT AREAL :
Currently WIF is running 23 ICDS center at:
Chetla,
Garia,
Sonagachi,
Tollygunge,
Kalighat,
Munshigunj and
Budge budge red light ares

An evening crèche at Sonagachi and Gaia Jalpole red light area is also manned by WIF.

NEGLECTED ONES

Along with ICDS project WIF is running 5 centers in red light areas Kalighat, Chetala, Munshigungj, Garia, Budge Budge,

PROJECT OBJECTIVE:
To provide development options to the children of CSWs in the red light area through the provision of integrated services adopting a life cycle approach.

ACTIVITIES

REMEDIAL
Provides support to the main streamed children preventing their dropout from the regular schools.

HEALTH & HYGIENE
Maintaining & Monitoring of proper health and hygiene

NUTRITION
Provides nutritious diets like sweet buns, seasonal fruits, eggs, salads, biscuits, puffed rice with sweets.

HIV / AIDS AWARNESS
Awareness on HIV/ AIDS, prevention, treatment, importance of condoms,
personal hygiene, environmental health & sanitation

VOCATIONAL TRANNING
WIF provides vocational training (tailoring, embroidery & making jute bags) to adolescent girls in alternative mainstream profession. At present there are 20 girls taking this training

RECREATION
cultural program on the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore birth anniversary
Cultural programme on “Teachers day”
Drama Workshop
Distribution of dresses on the occasion of Durga puja
Visit to Zoological Garden

HIV/ AIDS

SINCE 1990 WIF IS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF HIV AND AIDS WITH A GOAL

To prevent the spread of HIV/ AIDS, STDs
Health awareness among Women in prostitution, truckers, migrant labourers and slum communities.

Project Objectives
Detection and treatment of STD.
Spreading and generating awareness
Prevent spread of HIV/AIDs.
Care & Support services for PLWHAs

PROJECT AREAS
Centres in Kolkata (Kalighat,Chetla,Tollygunj,Garia,Munshigunnge,Sonagachi,Khidderpore)
Centres in Districts, Hooghly,Nadia,Burdwan, Jalpaiguri



ADOPT A GRANNY

WIF in collaboration with Helpage India is working to rehabilitate the aged sex worker from Kalighat and Sonagachi red light areas.
Activities
Providing food and dry ration.
Providing pocket money in cash of Rs.50/- per month per person.
Distributing clothes & medicine and personal hygiene items
Weekly health checkup
Mobile medical unit

AT PRESENT

50 grannies are been selected by WIF who are looked after by WIF

SHIKSHALAYA

Shikshalaya is an Alternative Formal Primary Education Programme for deprived urban children. It has come under Education Guarantee Scheme – Sarbo Shiksha Abhijan

Present Scenario

WIF has set up 13 Shikshalaya Centres in ward no. 1 and 6 of which
6 are Bengali,
2 are Hindi &
5 are Urdu medium
Children are receiving education up to class IV. In this year twelve students have been promoted from Class IV to class V They belong to very low economic strata.
At present there are 343 Boys and 302 Girls.

NO. OF BENIFICIARIES: 645 Children

ICHAPUR HANDICAPPED

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

Children who have difficulty in moving, learning, understanding, and hearing are provided with facilities like apparatus, medicines & educational material under the Ichapur Handicapped Project.

ACIVITIES

The Children are provided with:
Nutrition
Educational support
Physiotherapy
Musical instruments like harmonium and tabla
Books

MAINSTREAMING & RETAINING OF DEPRIVED URBAN CHILDREN

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

WIF intents to intervene and wants to ensure that the street children who are between 5 – 14 years are ensured education through retention, mainstreaming and providing quality education in formal schools.

The objective being to retain children enrolled in formal primary schools through a computerized child-tracking system and back up support. It aims to mainstream overage, vulnerable and out of school children into formal schools. It also intends to ensure the participation of the community in education of deprived urban children.

PROJECT AREA

The project will be implemented in the following areas:

Ward 9 in and around Kumartully
Ward 11 in and around Khanna and Shyambazar
Ward 12 in and around Shyambazar and Khanna
Ward 13 it covers Muchibazar, Telenga Bagan and Ultadanga
Ward 15 from Gouri Bari to Maniktolla.

PREVENTION OF TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN BETWEEN BANGLADESH AND WEST BENGAL.

The trafficking of human being is the third largest income generating activities for organised crime after weapons / arms and drug smuggling and generates billions of dollars of illegal funds annually.

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

The overall aim of the programme is to compact trafficking in human beings, especially Women and Children

This will be done through information collection and dissemination, strengthening civil societies, raising awareness and creating sustainable linkages

TARGET GROUP

Vulnerable communities, especially women and children from poor households and villages located in areas often targeted by traffickers.
· The target beneficiaries are the women and children aged between four and twenty five from the vulnerable household in khulna Division of Bangladesh and the West Bengal Panchayats of India who are most at risk of being targeted by human traffickers.

SWANIRBHAR (Self Reliance)

Swanirbhar, the Self Reliance, is a vocational training centre designed to impart skill training in the art of making stained glass items to adolescent girls, rescued from red light areas, trafficked and children of women in prostitution. Stained glass is the art of designing on coloured glass, whereby beautiful patterns of coloured glass could be carved on lampshades, door panels, and windows.
The core objective is to provide fundamental enhancement of the capacity for social and economic self-reliance in vulnerable young women.
To generate new and organic knowledge through specialized systematic training and it is in this context that a training unit was set up in October 2002.

PROJECT ACTIVITIES

WIF has appointed a trained teacher to train the girls in art of making Stain Glass.

NIJOLOY – A home for rescued, trafficked and orphaned girls and children of AIDS victims
Nijoloy is an integrated institutional complex at Ganganagar, Madyamgrram, 24 parganas (N) with a capacity of sheltering 100 girl children. It is spread over two bigas of land with covered areas of 14000 sq. ft.

Current Status

Currently Nijoloy shelters 70 girl children of women in prostitution living in red-light areas at a risk of being sexually abused by their mother’s clients and trafficked.Through these activities the children of Nijoloy are now self-reliant

ACTIVITIES

All the children are going to local Primary, Middle level schools (classes I to VIII). They learn music and dance participate in sports and receive every support to help them grow into confident, bright young adults, ready to face the world and totally integrated into society.

Endogenous Rural Tourism

The Endogenous Tourism Programme at Ballavpur Danga, (Santiniketan), District Birbhum, West Bengal is being implemented supported by the Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of India & UNDP.

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