Hongirana a home for opportunity deprived children

Started in the year 2008 with just 25 children, this Project aims at solving the problems hidden by the fact that orphans and vulnerable children are invisible; yet by the very nature of their situation, they are included among those that are classified as disadvantaged and poor. Children are subsumed within the poverty categories most often referred to such as households, communities, people – which means that there is a high tendency to focus on adult-related poverty while child problems are ignored, partly because children have little power and influence within a group that contains adults. Findings reflect that children in abject problems can be recognized by rather elementary (as opposed to sophisticated) criteria. Top on the list is absence of basic necessities such as shelter, food, clothing and water. Equally important is the ‘human condition’ in terms of physical health and parental care and protection. Schooling is high on the list as a critical criterion in determining who is extremely or modestly a vulnerable and disadvantaged child. While there seems to be national consensus among donors, the public sector and civil society that the government has made commendable progress in implementing PEAP (Poverty Eradication Action Plan) as flexibly as possible, it’s evolving nature, due to the participatory and consultative reviews it undergoes regularly, does not address many of the development challenges Disadvantaged children face today. It would take lobbying and advocacy interventions to ensure that the needs and demands of children in abject poverty are met.

Specific Objectives:

• To improve the quality of life of the orphans and vulnerable children by establishing a permanent home, school and health care centre for them.
• To train care givers in care giving skills to enable these children get adequate care, love and support
• To provide adequate education to these children to make them good citizens and have a better future through good education right from a tender age.
• To create awareness to the community and the outside world the need to protect and support the vulnerable children and the orphans as well as protecting their rights

• Children from Hongirana have won prizes in Drawing, Kabaddi and Kho-Kho at Range (Taluk) level competitions
• 3 children are studying in High school now
• Many children have passed first class and some of them have scored above 80%