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 (children?s 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 children?s 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 sponsor?s 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
