School for children is a non profit organisation who helps children in India basing on the help of european Professionals. Here is a little description of what we do.
VILLAGES WHERE SFC OPERATES
Population: about 500,000
The population lives with an average 0,1 $
a day
2% of the villages inhabitants have access to
sanitary fittings
12% of the population has a minimum
education
3% of the children are registered
95% of the children under 5 are undernourished
THE CASTE SYSTEM
75% of the population is divided into castes, with specific rights and privileges
25% of the population does not belong to any caste or tribe and lives in slums or
in rural areas in condition of extreme poverty. This implies:
Malnutrition
Exploitation
Poor hygienic conditions
Poor or non-existent standard of education
We are a team of professionals who devote their time to the organization and
management of School for Children
Italian volunteers are in charge of:
Communication
Information system management (childrens files)
Monitoring children in School for Children villages
Constructing new Shelters
Indian volunteers and employees
(social workers, teachers, accountants, supervisors)
Rural villages where you find:
High rate of male alcoholism
Debts with usurers and landowners
Payment of debts through bonded labour
Suicides caused by debts
Child abuse and ill-treatment
Murders committed for dowry
Slums in cities:
85% of the population is composed of rag pickers
Railway stations:
Orphans and dropout children
GIVING AN EDUCATION TO CHILDREN LIVING
IN SEVERE CONDITIONS: THIS IS THE ONLY EFFECTIVE
WAY FOR US TO BREAK AWAY FROM
THE VICIOUS CIRCLE OF POVERTY.
KHAMMAM: Remedial School for dropout children:
We grant food and lodging
to 370 needy children
BOMBAY: Slums:
We support 50 children in their
studies
WARANGAL:
We guarantee education and support to 250 children in the villages.
1973 - 2000
- Team of volunteers
- Numerous projects in collaboration with local missionaries:
Brick-built houses and wells
Training women and developing their skills in lace production and embroidery
Creation of a sericulture centre for recovered lepers
Cataract operations
2000 - 2005
- Association operating through P.I.M.E
- Gradual autonomy in managing the activities
- Main goal: education
TODAY
- On 24 March 2005 setting up of the School for Children Charity Association
- Management of educational projects through an online database
In India 250,000,000 live in extreme poverty excluded from their
own society
In spite of the great economic development, people not belonging to
any caste and those coming from tribes cannot gain access to labour
market
Education gives an immediate possibility of entering the labour market
Anybody working in India supports their and their parents family
HOW WE OPERATE
- CHOSING THE CHILDREN
- Supervisors
- Social workers
- Paramedics
Search and strict selection of extreme cases in villages/ railway stations
2. ENTERING THEIR FILES
- Indian employees: Files entering with childrens data in the online database
3. LOOKING FOR A SPONSOR
- Events staging
- Communication
4. INCLUDING ADOPTED CHILD IN THE SFC PROGRAMME
- Teachers
- Social workers
- Doctors
Daily monitoring of the child taken in charge by School for Children
5. UPDATING PROGRESS, NOTIFYING EMERGENCIES
- Supervisor
- Social workers
- Employees
Updating of the file of adopted child
Bringing to the sponsors notice eventual emergencies
OUR NEXT CRUCIAL TARGETS :
KHAMMAM
Complete of the building Khammam School in a tribal area lacking in similar structures
Keep on raising funds for children in straitened situations
Build the second floor of the junior college dormitory to accommodate high school students
OUR CONTATCS
For any further information about projects, initiatives,
donations and whatever here follow the references of the Association
For information via e-mail: info@schoolforchildrenonlus.org
To phone us: +39 02 39325823
To send us a fax: +39 02 39315769
By mail:
School for Children
Via Cosenz, 35
20158 Milano
