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	*Task Group*

	SADWI

	SECULARISM

	YOUTH ISSUE

	RURAL DEVELOPMENT

	ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

	HRD

	CHILDREN IN CRISIS PROJECT

	The YMCA Bangalore continues to serve people who are deprived of basic human rights to exist, survive & sustain in a world ridden with selfish motives in whose name millions of rupees are raised and misused. Children are a gift of God to mankind for they make the future of any country, of course the entire world; they make the future world. Then there are children in crises that are our own society's doing. There are instances that just born girl children thrown in to the dustbins.


	*Children in Crisis Project (SADWI)*

			Serving Abused and Demoralized & Women Issues

And there are parents who chase their grown up children to go to cities to earn living, support their families. The resultant effect is children are compelled to leave their homelands and seek employments in urban situations for their survival and of their families. Difficult situations like higher expectations from the parents drive the young people run away from homes to earn more, to support their families.


		Finally, not knowing the realities of urban life they fall victims of corruptive measures to earn livelihood, which even drive them to crimes and other vices. The challenge of YMCA has been to help these young people with shelters, look after them, send them to schools and also to help the grown ups to acquire a skill to learn and start earning for themselves and for their families.There has been instances unwanted children in the age group of 3 years are brought and left in the home whom the Dream HOME is looking after. There's a lot to be done, it's a burden that we need to shoulder. The task is big; we need the prayers and support of all our members and well-wishers.

	Programmes - Street Kids Fest

	On the 26^th April 2006 Kids Fest was organized at Murphy town Grounds and around 300 children participated in the fest and enjoyed. This programme highlighted the burning issues of the street children and provided of a friendly and congenial platform to exhibit their talents and skills. Over 50 children participated in Fun Games, which was conducted by three students from Netherlands on the 15^th of July 2006. They were also taken to the other shelters and day care centers and given awareness about the street children and their problems. Another Street Kids fest was organized on 23^rd September 2006 for over 300 children from different shelters and contact points at City YMCA Grounds. The programmes were aimed at affirming children's right to play and recreation

	Drug Awareness Camps

	Drugs are a major threat to street children as they are more vulnerable and generally have easy access to chemical substances. A Drug Awareness Programme was organized from 27^th June to 1^st July 2006 at Kumbalgod YMCA for 35 children from different areas. The children were impressed upon giving up the habit and lead a healthy life with dignity. A Workshop on HIV/AIDS was organized at YMCA Kumbalgod from 27^th March to 31^st March 2007. The Joint Director, Department of Women & Child Development, Bangalore inaugurated the Workshop and Mr. S.V. Rathnakumar, General Secretary, YMCA Bangalore, Mr. M. King Das, Treasurer (member of the Board), Mr. Daniel Rathnakar. J, Related Secretary and the CIC Staff attended the inaugural function.

	The Workshop included regular physical exercises and yoga & meditation, bathing, nutritious food and Ice breakers sessions, self Introduction sessions through games audio visuals and skit on HIV / AIDS, progressive games by the MSW Students marked the occasion. Volunteers from Germany also involved themselves in this camp and entertained the children with different activities. The Camp ended with individual counseling and evaluation.

	Health Checkup

	Regular health checkup and health awareness creation is an integral part of our CIC project. General Health check up Awareness programmes were conducted on the 22^nd April & 20^th July 2006 at YMCA Doddigunta Centre for over 100 children, women and general public.

	Staff Training

The Staff working with the Street Children project are continuously given exposures and special skill trainings in order to enhance their ability to produce effective work. On 27^th July 2006. One of our CIC staff attended the training on De-addiction Network at NIMHANS, which was followed by training on Child rights on the 27^th July 2006 at Vishranthi Nilayam wherein our Staff were a given wide range of inputs about the Rights of Child.


	Awareness Building


	Children of our centers are consistently exposed to the cultural and national values by way of regular celebrations of National festivals. Independence Day was successfully observed on the 15^th August 2006 at CIC Dream Home and Murphy Town shelters wherein over 150 children and staff participated and flag hoisting was done at both the shelters. The children were greeted with sweets and lunch.


	Training & Orientation

This is the highpoint of YMCA's empowerment process where grown up children were given vocational skill training at our centers after motivating them to elicit interest from within to be able to learn a skill and survive in the society like normal citizens, earning respectable livelihood.

As a part of motivation, the children were taken to Hoganekal Falls on the 25^th & 26^th of May 2006 where many of the children were motivated to take up vocational training.


	WOMEN ISSUES

	Women Empowerment is one of the major concerns of the Task Group SADWI. Various programmes have been organized during the last year addressing issues of women and children.

	At Doddigunta Balwadi School in June 2006 around 40 children were newly enrolled and the previous batch was sent to the regular schooling. The children are provided with every day nutritious food like porridge and meals. The children are attending school regularly and are hale and healthy.

	On the 14^th November 2006 Children's Day was celebrated at the Centre. There was a fancy dress competition and dance performance by the kids. Mrs. Lalitha Cherian, one our active and philanthropic member of the task group was the chief Guest and distributed the sweets and prizes. MSW students involved in all the programmes organized at Doddigunta Centre.A HIV/AIDS awareness programme was also organized for the general public.

	Tailoring Training for Women

	YMCA provided two sewing machines and tailoring classes started and the women are attending tailoring classes regularly. At the Yeshwanthpur YMCA Training Centre the tailoring training is going on very successfully and at present there are around 25 women in the training.

	Other Programmes

	*Diwali & Christmas Celebrations*

Dr. Muneera Ghouse, a committed member of our task group distributed Sweets, Toys, Clothes and Playthings for the Balwadi Kids. On the 21^st December Christmas was celebrated and Prizes and Toys were distributed to the children and the parents.

Regular monthly meetings are conducted involving mothers of the children. They express their happiness about their children's development. Regular health check up and medical camp is conducted at the centre with the help of Primary Health Centre Sisters. Vitamin A tonic, Iron tablets, pulse polio drops and Hepatitis D doses are given to the slum children regularly. On 17^th March 2007, women from the surrounding localities celebrated the International Women's day.

Dr.P. Sethu is the Chairman and Mr. Daniel Rathnakar.J. is the Related Secretary of the Task Group on Children in Crisis Project (SADWI')


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