Home Care Centre
This is a Residential Care Center for the children who are willing to get out of sex work and take up alternative livelihood opportunity for a better future.It a rehabilitation center and our strategyis to work with the children who have undergone sexual abuse and are vulnerable to various kinds of exploitation. Here we provide Shelter, Health Care, Education, Skill Development and Livelihood Promotion.
Identification
we have divided our target area into small regions and our field staff and their presence in each region is mainly to identify new children arriving from different places to enter into the flesh trade by force or unknowingly. The field staff also make door to door visit to identify children and young women in sex work. They have also built rapport with some of the brothels, pimps (Agents) and police department so that they can have contact with children and young women who are under the clutches of this difficult circumstance.
Admission
After identification, the field staff admit the children who wish not to return into home care center. We have sufficient infrastructure facilities and qualified staff to take good care of these children. The staff would observe them for one or two days and gradually start counselling sessions. Simultaneously the residential staff prepares Individual Intervention Plan for each child and this will enable us to find out the interest and aptitude of the child for the future course of action.
Counselling
The children admitted in the Home Care Center have come from very difficult circumstances and hence they would be in a very disturbed state of mind. So it is essential for the counsellors to spend quality time with them. Counselling is nothing but “Healing”. So it would take a long time to bring the children to the reality. Simultaneously the children are encouraged to go to school or to do pre – vocational Training. In short the children in the home care centre would be fully engaged in useful activities to make them busy all the time and to divert their attention from the unpleasant past. As part of the counselling programme we give them therapeutic skill sessions to make them to understand the reality of life.
Medical Care
Most of the children who come afresh to the home care center are with some kind of physical ailment. They suffer for no fault of their own. We have qualified doctors and they make a thorough medical check-up and immediate follow up treatment is administered. Also screening for various infections would be organized in the hospitals. Children diagnosed with infections such as STI, STD, HIV, Skin disease,TB and other associated problems would be referred to specialist for further investigation and treatment. Children with special medical needs would be given extra attention.
Education (Formal & Non Formal)
We believe that Education Opens the Mind of the Children so that they can change their behaviour. We enroll all the children in to the local schools to continue the formal education. Children who are above age would be given non formal education through bridge course organized in the center itself. The senior girls would be encouraged to take up suitable higher/ Vocational training as per their choice.
Skill Development
We run a skill Development Training Programme in our center in which we give training in Tailoring, Embroidery, Needle work, Handicrafts, Zardosi, Greeting card, Book Mark and Envelop making. Children above 10th standard are encouraged to take up higher education such as Pre University Course, Montessori Teachers Training, Computer Course, and Secretarial Training course. During the training period we prepare the children to get ready to enter into the world and live an independent life.
Reintegration and Mainstreaming
Our ultimate goal is to reintegrate each child in to the mainstreams of the society as responsible citizens of India. After successful completion of education/ training the children are encouraged to be reintegrated into their family provided they express their desire. The parents / relatives if they want to take the children all necessary arrangements would be done for the family reunion. In case the children do not want to go their family or they do not anyone to take care of them such children are encouraged to take up suitable job and live together in a rented accommodation/ paying guest/ working women hostel and live Value Based life. We keep regular follow up and encourage them to continue to do the good work and live within the social norms.