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Child Rights: Community Intervention at Varanasi
With the aims to facilitate an encouraging and enabling environment for
the realization of child rights and improve the circumstances of living in
rural and urban setting in Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, the project
“Saksham”.
The Empowered Community has been commenced from July 2008.
Geographically, the project covers 70 villages of Chiraigaon and Cholapur
Block and 30 slums of Varanasi District.
A majority of target group
belongs to schedule caste, schedule tribes and backward caste. The primary
target groups are children and the families of children have been focused
as secondary beneficiaries under this project.
Objectives
To organize and
sensitize the community members towards child rights and facilitate
building up of system and mechanisms to ensure protection of rights
of the children. |
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To increase
capacity of the community systems and structures for protection and
improvement of the circumstances and of the right of the children. |
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To provide
formal and non formal education to the children from marginalized
community and in difficult situation. |
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To develop
approaches in strengthening community based health systems and
mechanism to achieve the objective of healthy environment. |
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To facilitate
utilization of indigenous skills and knowledge to identify better
livelihood options. |
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To provide social advocacy for children’s agenda and mainstream the issue of child rights in government policies and programmes. |
Formation and Strengthening of Community based Organization.
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Community Mobilization Meeting
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Formation and strengthening of Bal Adhikar Manch
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Formation and strengthening of Bal Manch
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Formation of Children Network
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Formation and strengthening of Self Help Group.
Training and Capacity Building
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Training of Bal Adhikar Manch members on Child Right
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Training of Bal Adhikar Manch members on Quality Education
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Training of Bal Manch Memnbers on Child Right
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Training of Adhikar Manch member on Food Processing and Preservation
Networking and Advocacy
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Government-Community Interface
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Teachers- Community Interface
- Rally
on Child Rights
- Mass
Mobilization
Direct support to Community Members
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Organizing Health Camp and Health Awareness Programme
- Life
Skill Education and Development Centre
Research and Documentation
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Situation Analysis
- Study
of Child Abuse and Violence against Children
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Developing livelihood perspective Plan