Street Children Welfare Initiatives

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Target Group for these project:- Helping Children from the street between 4-12 years ( mostly refugees) of India to get basic education and hygienic training .

Project Back ground :- India having uncountable numbers of street and slum dwellers . There are thousands of poor refugees coming every year from nearby countries and from different small towns and villages to the big cities and most of these families are living in a very poorly condition at slums or on street corners like insects.Often these families bring their children to help them in begging ,household work ,rag picking activities.

Work & Activities :- Most important target of the project is to bring smile among these children and provide confidence and moral support to them .Volunteer would use different way of informal education technique to present a unique and attractive way of education programs for these kids . All volunteers would go through orientation on arrival and local language session during this project . There would also be a workshop every evening when volunteers would prepare the next day lesson plan of action .Volunteers would also help local coordinator in other activities like giving shower food distribution, organizing drama,story telling and entertainment games for the children.whole camp would be run under the supervision of very experienced local project coordinator. Saturday and Sunday would be free days when volunteers can take rest or tour around the city or near by places.SMILE society always tries to give international volunteers a big scope to know about the local communities and understand the family environment. Smile Society (ngo) had started their activities since 2003 !