Sponsor education of a boy at Manasu care Home

In our work, we came across many children who work as rag pickers/beggars. These are the children who do not have family or were abandoned or have a very broken family relation. Those are the street children who work and spend most of their time on the street. We strongly believe in the need to work with this group and help them to get back to education or better work conditions. Over the last few months, we have interacted with a number of street children to understand their personal situations, occupation and needs/aspirations. Based on the study and discussion with the street children, we have developed the program intervention. There will be a need for a home which caters to both temporary/ permanent stays. The home will be the centre for a wide range of activities/ services like education, vocational training, counselling etc. The focus of the program will be to work with different stakeholders to identify and work with children who run away from home. 

For the last 15 years, Kidpower India is running a girl home for vulnerable girl children in Visakhapatnam. The home provides many facilities like safe stay, education, vocational training, etc. Manasu Home got good recognition and reputation in Visakhapatnam. 

In the hope to extend the same services, we have started Manasu boys home this year. Currently, 10 children are staying and by next year, we want to support 40 boys.

The focus is to bring the children out of rag-picking/ begging/ other dangerous occupations and to send them back to school. in this way the children will have a bright future.