OTHER PROJECTS AT HOPE
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The Home provides a shelter to traumatized children especially those without families.
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To improve traumatized children's emotional, mental and physical health by providing health care and counseling support.
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The unit was set to give employment opportunities to poor adolescent girls.
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24 HOURS child protection program for the deprived children on the streets of Kolkata
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Day care for children of working mothers and Additional learning skills for children in school.
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To identify 15 vocal members of the community who were willing to be involved in building an environment for children’s appropriate development.
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HOPE HOME FOR GIRLS AT KASBA AND PANDITYA PLACE
Project Title: The establishment of the first permanent Hope Home for abandoned girls from the street
Kasba Home: Age group of 5-12 years
Target Population: 60
Panditya Home: Age group of 13-20 years
Target Population: 30
No. of beneficiaries: 25
Geographical Location: Kolkata, Ward No. 85
Brief Activities
.JPG) The Home provides a healing touch to traumatized children who have faced acute loneliness and helplessness on the streets, especially those without families. The home is a shelter for those unfortunate children who could not relish the comfort of a home, had no parents, or who had lost valuable innocent years living on the street. Counseling support for those children is ongoing.
Achievements
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Of the 62 children in the Home, 35 children are continuing education in reputed boarding school, 25 are continuing education in reputed day school. |
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One girl doing the final year teachers training course in Loreto College. |
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One girl has successfully completed beautician, embroidery and tailoring course and is working now. |
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Another girl has successfully passed Class - X and is continuing higher education. |
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Single parents of some children have opened bank accounts. |
Activities
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Children participated in Hope Star Programme with other reputed schools. |
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12 children participated in drawing competition with other NGO children. organized by Chaayya, an NGO who promotes art and culture. |
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Out of 250 children who participated 2 children of our preparatory center got prizes and sponsorship through Chaayya, an NGO. |
Case History
Asha lived with her mother, a brother and a sister. They had no house, but lived on the pavement. Asha's father left them when she was two years old. He was a sweeper. After that her mother remarried. Her second husband was a beggar. He also left them but he had a two year old son, and a daughter of five years old. Presently, Asha's mother is pregnant. When she was three month's pregnant her husband left her. Now, begging is their only source of income.
Asha had a maternal grandmother, who loved her very much. She has three maternal uncles. Out of the three, two of them do not want to keep any relationship with her mother but her younger uncle loves her and takes care of them. Asha is now a seven year old girl. She lives in Hope Home and loves being there. She dislikes living on the pavement and begging.
She is very social, friendly and co-operative by nature. She also loves to chat. She wants to study. When she came here she did not know how to read or write. Now she is studying in English medium school in Class 1. She appears to be intelligent. At Hope Home she is very happy.
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