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Integrated Program for Street Children is a national program operating
in 56 cities in India. I-India operates 10 day ‘centres’
in Jaipur. The program targets homeless children living alone, or with
their families, on the street. It provides education, health care, nutrition
and legal help. It also seeks to reunite runaway children with their
families.
The day centres are operated at street points such as sidewalks, slums and the railway station. They are usually no more than a rug on the ground or a wall-less, canvass area of shade, but they are the last line of care for children who have fallen through society’s cracks. These children may be forced to work because of poverty, or there may be no nearby government school, or they and their parents may have not appreciated the value of education. The Integrated Program for Street Children reaches out to them by bringing education to where they live. I-India’s 10 centres help 700 children every day. Like
the School on Wheels, the Intergrated Program street centres
are child-friendly and teach hygiene and social behaviour as well
as Hindi, English and Maths. A difference between two programs is
that School on Wheels has two teachers working
for two hours in each of three centres, whereas the Integrated Program
has one teacher working in one centre for six hours a day. |
