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Save orphaned and abandoned children

Like all proud Indians and NRIs, we too, want to make India a better country. Even after the typically fierce “but India has a great history” retort, we look down embarrassed and helpless in terms of our rural youth being misguided and unemployed. The education system in rural India suffers both on poor infrastructure as well as an abysmal quality of education.A short clip above gives an overview of our work. Also there are related articles by Dr. Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director, IIM Indore. We have been very lucky to have had the stalwarts from the education &amp; social entrepreneurship sector (Professors from IIM Indore, Bangalore, Udaipur &amp; TISS; Caring Friends, Mumbai, Other NGO entrepreneurs like Vinayak Lohani) and tie-ups with institutions like Head-Held High &amp; Goonj Delhi) guide us through our journey of trying to bring around this paradigm shift. 
 We need your contribution to help the youth realize their dreams. Lets together give them our support and guidance and do our part in giving back to the society we feel proud to be a part of!SSES through its educational initiative SSISM empowers the rural youth with access to quality higher education and employment opportunities. It offers graduation courses with transportation to rural students from the interiors of Madhya Pradesh (70 KM radius). Free computer access education is provided to school children. Special focus is on girl education and parent counseling. Out of 1050 students; 70% are girls, few being university toppers. SSES provides placement &amp; entrepreneurship opportunities to students by exposing them to current industry needs every 6 months via industry visits, training, updated curriculum, vocational training etc. Spoken English classes from Head-Held High, Bangalore headed by CNN IBN Awardee aims to bridge the crucial communication gap that poses a big challenge of these students. 
 SSES target to impact minimum 10,000 direct beneficiaries per year. These include students, their families and all who wants to become self reliant.Since 2010; we have imparted courses &amp; training's to nearly 6000 people. A paradigm shift from being aloof to being aware and focused to parents encouraging their girls to study and become independent have been our key achievements. Some of the achievements are: 1050 total students, 60% girls from 200 villages, 4000+ villagers trained in the basics of computers, 10+ entrepreneurship projects, 14 university toppers, 3 university sports captain and 70+ placements in national and multi-national companies.SSISM alumnis being role models, girls making an exemplary mark by being independent and proving themselves, Emergence of local entrepreneurs. Girls who decide to stay in village are much sought after as teachers at primary and secondary schools, allied industries and occupations like dairy farming, retailing, etc. They are proving to be more aware and dedicated for their family occupation, like farming.

Empower rural youth for a brighter future

Disadvantaged students face many obstacles when trying to pursue an education. The expense to go to school combined with their parents expectations for their children to work and earn a living, means many discontinue their education. This leads to poor employment options in the future.In a country like India, where the majority of the population are youths, the overall effect of this problem multiplies. Societies progress and the economies growth rate both deteriorate as so many people are uneducated. 
 We have started an initiative to support bright but underprivileged students post the 10th grade to pursue further studies in literacy; leading to employment. We cover the cost of scholarships, books, and all skill training.Each student is carefully selected based upon academic performance and economic assessments. Our volunteers visit student’s homes to get a better understanding of their financial situation. As we have such a big network of volunteers covering a vast area, we can ensure that we reach as many students as possible. 
 Through our efforts and the support of others like you, more than 5000 students have received employment through Vidya Poshak and over 4000 students have reached the next level of literacy. Also, 60 free of cost rural book banks have been opened where students can borrow books and educational material.

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KIDPOWER India is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating safer communities. Kidpower India provides training in safety skills to children, teens, and adults. The training teaches how to stay safe, protect oneself and others, and increase self-confidence in any situation. The methods effectively prevent bullying, create awareness about strangers, abuse prevention, and personal safety. Kidpower India is the local centre of Kidpower Teenpower and Fullpower International.Kidpower also focuses on children in difficult situations by providing them with education support, safety training, and other intervention that will help them continue their education and have a better future. In partnership with around 20 low costs schools, we provide 200 scholarships for girls from poor families to continue their education every year. Another important work of Kidpower India is the Manasu children's home where we provide comprehensive care for orphan and vulnerable children. We also work in 5 slums to prevent child labour and ensure that the children go to school by running bridge schools and vocational training. In these communities, we are also working hard to help people and groups whose situation has become vulnerable because of COVID-19.

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Eleven-year-old Monika lives with her parents and her two sisters. Her father, Srinivas, is a trained electrician, working at a port. However, his wage not only supported his wife and daughters but also the cancer treatment his father needed, as well as his sister’s wedding ceremony. Consequently, Srinivas was forced to borrow money that he would never be in a position to repay.

With astronomical debts weighing on his pocket and his conscience, Srinivas suffered a mental breakdown. What’s worse, he could no longer work, adding further pressure to his financial situation. As a result, Monika and her younger sister stopped going to school for two years. Kidpower intervened, paid Rs.3000 for a month of their education, and provided them with the equipment they would need to thrive. Now Monika is enjoying learning and socialising with other children at her school alongside her sister.


Monika’s way back to education

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For 15 years Manasu home is providing care and support to girls who are orphans or come from difficult and abusive family backgrounds. The home provides many facilities like a safe stay, education, vocational training etc. Manasu Home is located in Visakhapatnam, an exclusive girl care centre providing and supporting girls.The centre believes that home care is the best care and tries to integrate the family back to the child. However, in cases where children could not integrate back to home because of the vulnerable or abusive situation at home or the absence of caretakers. In such situations, the home provides education and vocational training support to the girl child. The centre has the capacity to accommodate up to 45 children. 
 Taking care of girls at Manasu home is a long-term commitment. The corpus Fund will be used to help Manasu girls' home to sustain themselves in difficult times and for a much longer period of time. Your donation to the corpus fund will help us sustain the care and education support for vulnerable girl children. 
 We have a small corpus fund of Rs 1L, the interest of which is used for meeting the education cost of 1-2 girls. We want to expand the fund so that the interest can be used to support more children education.

Kidpower India - Corpus Fund

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.

Sponsor education of a boy at Manasu care Home

Sirisha is 10 years old. She was found begging on the streets. The police identified her and referred her to Child Welfare Committee (CWC). Unable to trace the parents the CWC sent to Manasu girl home. We joined Sirisha at Minerva school. She is now studying 5th class. She is very happy that she can go to school. She is also learning to play chess from a national coach and is taking up Karate classes. Manasu's home is her new home. Many children who lost their parents or are highly vulnerable need a safe place and need to be taken care of. Manasu home provides them with a safe place to stay and ensures their education. Though we can raise funds to meet food costs, we are struggling to meet their education costs. It is raised on yearly basis and there is always uncertainty.  
 Your support will help the children continue their education. The donations will be used to educate the girl children who stay at Manasu's home. The children will attend the best schools/ colleges in the region. This will help them to get a good education and a better future. 
 After completion of school, the children go to college and take up jobs. Some of the children have finished engineering, polytechnic and pharmaceutical course and are working. Sponsoring a girl child from Manasu home will ensure a highly vulnerable girl child be able to have a very bright future.

Sponsor a girl child from Manasu home

Jahnavi is 10 years old. Her parents died a few years back. Her grandmother used to take care of her. As she is very old, she approached Child Welfare Committee (CWC) which referred her to the Manasu home. Her grandmother died last year. We joined Jahnavi at Minerva school. She is now studying 5th class. She is very happy that she can go to school. She is also learning to play chess from a national coach and is taking up Karate classes. Manasu's home is her new home. Many children who lost their parents or are highly vulnerable need a safe place and need to be taken care of. Manasu home provides them with a safe place to stay and ensures their education. Though we can raise funds to meet food costs, we are struggling to meet their education costs. It is raised on yearly basis and there is always uncertainty. 
 Your support will help the children continue their education. The donations will be used to educate the girl children who stay at Manasu home. The children will attend online classes, till the school will be open. They will use the laptops and smartphones available at home. Some of the elder children will help the younger girls to finish their home works. In the evening, the tuition teacher will come. The teacher will help the children in understanding the concepts and helping them finish their homework. Some of the children struggled to follow mathematics and language subjects. When the schools are open the children will attend the schools. We aim to help all our children finish school and later join college. 
 For nearly 15 years Manasu home is providing care and support to girls who are orphans or come from families with abuse or vulnerability situations. The home provides many facilities like safe stay, education, vocational training, etc. Manasu Home got good recognition and reputation in Visakhapatnam. It continues to be the only girl care centre that provides care and supports exclusively for girls in the city. All the children are sent to good schools in the region depending on their interests and education levels. After completion of school, the children go to college and take up jobs. Some of the children have finished engineering, polytechnic and pharmaceutical course and are working.

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The child labor situation is getting worse in rag picking community of Visakhapatnam because of the closed schools and poverty. In the rag-picking community, men go for rag-picking while women mostly go for selling broomsticks or collect hair from households in exchange for fancy items. The rag Pickers were able to work only for 4 months in the last 1 year because of the COVI19 restrictions. While they are struggling to meet basic needs, the second wave of COVID19 has hit them hard. Many people have to borrow a large amount of money for the treatment of a family member. The high debts and less income are forcing the children of the families into work. Many boys of 10-12 years are accompanying their parents for rag picking. While young girls are accompanying their mothers for work. While a year back some of these children were either going to school or coming to the child labor school in preparation for joining at school. Rag picking is classified as a hazardous activity for children below 14 years, under Indian law. Imagine a child has to walk long distances, putting the hands and searching for plastic in hazardous and filthy waste.  
 Kidpower India is running Hope and LG Bridge Schools in the slums of Visakhapatnam with the aim of preventing child labor. Children who go to work or stay at home without working are motivated to join the bridge schools. Most of the parents of the children are rag-pickers. The Children are taught alphabets in Telugu, English, numbers, numbers in words, basic clean habits, etc. The syllabus consists of topics from Kindergarten to Grade 2 and prepares the child to join in regular school.After completion of the bridge school, the children will be joined into government or private schools. Because of the COVID19 pandemic, the children will fail to make this transition from bridge school to regular school. They will end up joining their parents at work. Though children going to rag-picking is hazardous and is banned by the government. It is difficult to prevent because the children work with their parents. Half of the income, the child gives to the parent, and the remaining the child is allowed to spend on his own. By providing scholarships Kidpower aims to send the children who study well to low-cost private schools and prevent them from becoming rag pickers.  
 Scholarships for poor deserving students are a sound investment for the future generation. The children will continue their education and have a better future. They will not drop out of school and become child labor. James Tootely in his book, "The beautiful Tree‟ prescribes a similar approach to educate the poor children and calls it "targeted vouchers for the poorest. Studies from Hyderabad and Delhi, show that children's learning is also better in low-cost private schools. Our own experience also indicates this is an effective method for ensuring children stay in school and get a better education. In the last few years, we are able to successfully enroll more than 100 children in various government and private schools. Because of the COVID19 pandemic, the families are struggling to meet the basic needs of the families because of the COVID19. Most of the families will not be able to support the children's education. Also, the schools are closed which made the children easily vulnerable to be convinced to join their parents. By providing scholarships to low-cost private schools we can ensure that the child completed his education and does not become a rag picker.