Reading Room Programme
Since August 2004, Peace Child India has chosen 50 Government rural schools, in a structured plan to improve infrastructure. The idea is that with better books, reading rooms and toilets, student attendance and attention will improve, and better access to library and playtime resources will improve the quality of education in these targeted schools.The idea is to document the changes we've noticed and then petition the Government, with its vast resources to provide what we as a small organisation with limited resources and volunteer help have been able to provide.The reading room programme is an important aspect of the Government rural schools initiative, establishing a space for the children's creativity and imagination and providing a foothold into the school for further work there. To date, Peace Child India has established a successful reading room in 25 schools.
Health Programme
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First-aid awareness
The first-aid component aims at conducting training workshops held in government schools and in slums to make young people in impoverished and neglected communities aware of proper emergency-response methods.
Medical boxes containing first-aid supplies will also be donated so that a simple clinic can be set up in each school or slum.
The workshops include easy-to-understand information material, including posters and pamphlets, that are left at the clinic.
The workshop participants become informed about how to best treat themselves and their community members in case of accidents. This is especially important in rural villages where the nearest hospital or clinic is beyond walking distance, making it quite difficult to carry seriously injured victims.
The participants are appointed as members of their first-aid team, in charge of maintaining the first-aid clinic and restocking supplies when they are running low.
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Hygiene/nutrition
The newly added second phase of the project encompasses hygiene and nutrition, which is meant to compliment the first-aid training.
It aims at informing young people about simple and practical ways to incorporate proper nutrition and hygiene into their everyday lives. This will include actions as simple as hand-washing and wearing shoes, especially around toilets.
The project also covers advice on balanced eating, exercise, and reproductive health information for adolescents. Each workshop is specifically catered to appropriately match the needs of the specific age group targeted
Sponsorship Programme
The children who attend Government schools usually do not have to pay fees until the 9th standard. However, they do need assistance purchasing shoes, books, bus passes and other supplies. As they grow older, the school fees increase, and college is typically at least 15,000 rupees or 215 euros for the fees alone. To sponsor a school child we ask 120 Euros, and for a college student the fee is 230 Euros. Without aid, many of these young people would have to leave school at the age of 12 or 13. For girls, the most acceptable option quickly becomes marriage, while the boys start work a laborers. The students we select for our sponsorship program must have good school marks and come from families unable to financially support their education. We guarantee that 80% of your donation will go to the child you selected, and we will provide yearly report cards. If a sponsor wishes, we can arrange a yearly Skype meeting or letter from the child. Sponsoring a child is a great intercultural experience for classrooms, or a way for individuals and families to forever change a child’s life.
You can learn more about the children who needs sponsors on our meet the children page, and you can contact us at india@peacechild.org to set up a sponsorship
Government Rural Schools
Since August 2004, Peace Child India has chosen 50 Government rural schools, in a structured plan to improve infrastructure. The idea is that with better books, reading rooms and toilets, student attendance and attention will improve, and better access to library and playtime resources will improve the quality of education in these targeted schools.
The idea is to document the changes we've noticed and then petition the Government, with its vast resources to provide what we as a small organisation with limited resources and volunteer help have been able to provide.
The reading room programme is an important aspect of the Government rural schools initiative, establishing a space for the children's creativity and imagination and providing a foothold into the school for further work there. To date, Peace Child India has established a successful reading room in 25 schools.
Government Shelter
Since 2001, Peace Child India has been working actively with young people from disadvantaged communities. Our focus areas have been social medicine, education and entrepreneurship.
This is a shelter run by the Government for children who have been rescued from abusive employers, who have run away from home, who are addicts or have been caught committing petty crime.
The home it self is a pretty bleak and depressing place, where children are routinely locked up and provided with limited food, medicine and counselling.
Our volunteers visit the Boys Home everyday, providing a vital lifeline for these children, by providing them with crayons, play equipment, a reading room, books, excursions to parks, soap, towels and other necessities for a small window into a normal childhood.
Most importantly, our volunteers provide love and routine in the chaotic lives of these children.
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PROJECTS
OUR GOALS
The focus of our organisation has always revolved around children through our work in the schools and the Boys Home and our main goal is simple - to give children tools that can help them be successful in adult life.
We teach written and spoken English as well as teach independent problem-solving skills. Whether the students we teach go on to higher education or go straight into the working world, these skills will open up a range of opportunities for them that will hopefully lead to a better life.
These skills are taught through creative and fun classes that approach learning in a different way to there standard curriculum, emphasising the importance of solving a problem on your own and the overall value that learning can have on you future.