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PLAN INDIA OFFICE :PLAN INDIA E-12 Kailash Colony, New Delhi 110048, India Phone: 91 9717999753
Plan in India is part of Plan International, one of the world's largest community development organisations. Plans vision is of a world in which all children realise their full potential in societies which respect peoples rights and dignity. Plan is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations. Plan India is a nationally registered child centred Non Profit ORGANISATION. For over 30 years, Plan and our partners have helped communities throughout India to help themselves, so that children have access to their rights including the right to protection, basic education, proper healthcare, a healthy environment, livelihood opportunities and participation in decisions which affect their lives. We encourage children to express their views and be actively involved in improving their communities. Plan India currently works in 11 states in India and has impacted the lives of over a million children.
Plan's Approach
Plan Indias rights based approach helps bring lasting improvements to the lives of vulnerable children and their communities in India, including children living on the streets and those living in urban homeless families; those with disabilities or affected by HIV; those who are exploited and trafficked; the children of sex workers; and child labourers. Plan India also works to help girls overcome the disadvantages and discrimination they face in everyday life within most communities by promoting education for the girl child. Plan India is an NGO for children committed to the principles of child rights and equality, and we work to develop the capacity of civil society to meet their own needs by replicating successful development models.
Our Supporters
Plans work is not possible without the support of funding from individuals, corporations, institutions, foundations and government agencies within India and abroad. For more information on Plan International and Plans work throughout visit plan-international.org. the world,
Plan was founded in 1937 by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and refugee worker Eric Muggeridge. Originally named 'Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain', the aim was to provide food, accommodation and education to children whose lives had been disrupted by the Spanish Civil War. Since that time, our approach to humanitarian assistance has evolved from wartime relief activities, to post-war support, to long-term community development and emergency assistance that helps children, their families and their communities in developing countries.
Plan in India
Plan, an International NGO began work in India in 1979 and over the past years Plan and our partners have helped communities throughout India to help themselves, so that children have access to their rights including the right to:
Protection Basic education Proper healthcare A healthy environment Livelihood opportunities Participation in decisions which affect their lives.
Plan currently works in 11 states in India and has impacted the lives of more than a million children.
1960s Plan expanded its work in Asia and to countries in South America. In 1962, US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy was honorary chairwoman during Plan's Silver Jubilee. 1970s The global name became Plan International' as programmes now spanned Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Africa. Plan began work in India in 1979 and over the past years Plan and our partners have helped communities throughout India to help themselves, so that children have access to their right. 1980s Belgium, Germany, Japan and the UK joined Canada, the US, Australia and the Netherlands as donor countries. Plan was recognized by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. 1990s Plan marked its 60th anniversary of helping children. Offices opened in France, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden and the Republic of Korea. 2000s Plan's donor countries increased to 20 as local fundraising offices opened in Colombia, India, Ireland, Hong Kong, Spain and Switzerland.
The name Plan International evolved to simply Plan' and a unified global identity was created to help make the organisation more easily recognised around the world. The new logo was shown to sponsored children in all the regions where Plan works, and they loved the playing child and the warm sun. This image is consistent with Plan's approach to put the child at the centre of what we do. 2010s Plan India becomes a Field Country National Office and a member of Plan's global Members' Assembly along with Plan Colombia.
Plan in India is part of a global network employing more than 7000 staff and 60,000 volunteers in over 60 countries. Currently there are approximately 100 employees working for Plan in India . Bhagyashri Dengle
Bhagyashri Dengle is a development professional with over 25 years of experience in the field of development especially in the areas of child rights, childrens participation, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. Bhagyashri started her career as a social worker with the Federation for the welfare of mentally retarded. She worked with CASP (Community Aid and Sponsorship Programme), a national ORGANISATION working for rights of underprivileged children for 18 years.
She joined Plan India as an Executive Director in September 2004. At Plan India, Bhagyashri is responsible for the overall development and management of the NGO which includes setting strategies, measuring affecting rights of children. progress, building partnerships and alliances and advocacy on issues
BOARD
The Plan India Governing Board is comprised of eminent development, business, finance and marketing professionals in India. They volunteer their time and expertise to help Plan achieve its vision of a world in which all children realise their full potential. The Governing Board and committees meet a minimum of four times per India. year to provide governance and strategic oversight to Plan's operations in
Where We Work
Plan works in 11 states in India and has directly impacted the lives of more than a million children and their families.
How we work
Based on many years of experience, Plan believes that sustainable development of disadvantaged communities can be achieved only if childrens best interests are at the heart of everything we do and if children themselves actively participate in the process. Child centred community development is the term we use to describe how we aim to do our development work. It's a rights based approach to development where we support communities to develop the structures and skills they need to provide a safe and healthy environment in which children are able to realise their full potential.
Our Approach
With increased focus on children's rights, we involve children as active participants in the development process. In the past our community development programs benefited children, but we worked largely with the adult community members. Now, with increased focus on childrens rights, we involve children as active participants in the development process.
As a result of the success of these changes, Plan has adopted Child Centred Community Development as its program approach. This integrates the more recently developed methods of working with children and our long experience of community development.
Children in such circumstances have their rights denied in the most fundamental way.
Plan and our partners work to create protective and supportive environments in which both girls and boys are safe from violence and
exploitation, their rights are protected and each child has the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Satyavathi's story
Satyavathi was in the 9th grade when she dropped out of school, as her parents could not afford the school fees and other expenses. She had to stay at home and help with the household chores. Hundreds of girls in her area are denied education and are put to work either as household help or are at the risk of being married early or being trafficked. Thanks to Plan India supporters, Satyavathi was enrolled in Plan's Teen Channel program aimed at helping school drop outs to resume their education. She has successfully completed her education and is currently working at the front office of an esteemed hotel.
Plan was founded in 1937 by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and refugee worker Eric Muggeridge. Originally named 'Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain', the aim was to provide food, accommodation and education to children whose lives had been disrupted by the Spanish Civil War.
What are the causes that PLAN INDIA work towards? Plan runs various programs to work with children in difficult circumstances. These programs essentially focus on education, health care, nutrition and shelter. We also enroll children in child media empower them so that they can voice their opinions. Emphais is also on preventive measures like disaster preparedness in disaster prone areas, prevention of child labor and instances of street children, prevention and inclusion of HIV affected children, etc. The money that you contribute will go towards these programs. programs and ensure their participation in the innovative programs to
How many projects do you have in the country? We have our projects running in Bajju, Bhubaneswar, Delhi, Maharajganj, Muzafarpur, Deodurg,Dharmapuri, Gairsain, Hyderabad, Krishna, Lunkaransar, Nizamabad, Patna, Pune, Udaipur, Uttarkashi, Varanasi,Vijayawada. How do I ensure that whatever I donate will be used correctly?
The entire management process of PLAN INDIA is evaluated by a 4 tier audit system - programme and project audit, internal and process audit, statutory audit and external audit, which ensure the correct utilization of funds. In addition, at PLAN INDIA , we do not accept any cash donations. In order to maintain transparency we encourage our drafts, credit cards or online payments. supporters to make all donations only through cheques, demand
From where do you get the funds? Plans work is not possible without the support of funding from agencies within India and abroad. The problem faced for the development work? The only problem faced by the NGO was that in the starting when they had limited financial resources and none knew about the NGO the time it was started. At, a later stage it was even recognized by the government. individuals, corporations, institutions, foundations and government
With who have you got collaborated with? We have collaboration with: UnitedState Agency for International Development World Learning Johns Hopkins University All India Institute of Local Self-Government National Resource Centre on Urban Poverty Department of Health and Family Welfare, Indore District Immunization Basics Indin Pediatrics Indian Association of Prevention and Social Medicine.
CHILDHOOD ENHANCMENT THROUH TRAINING AND ACTION (CHETNA) Head Office:Manohar Kunj, Ground Floor, Telefax: Gautam Nagar, New Delhi 110049 Telephone: 011 41644471 Telefax: 011 41644470
E-mail: chetnacncp@gmail.com
ABOUT CHETNA
Childhood Enhancement through Training and Action (CHETNA) is a non-profit ORGANISATION working for empowerment of Street and Working Children (SWC) in Delhi and adjoining states. We empower these children with alternative education and 18 well-crafted child centered activities like recreation, life skill workshops, exposure visits, visits to police stations and primary health centers, residential workshops, etc.
OUR VISION
Achieving child friendly society and system which ensures rights of survival , protection , development and participation of the child.
WE BELIEVE
A child is on the street not by choice but by compulsion. The push and pull factors, like poverty, urbanization, abusive social environment, dysfunctional education system, aspirations, etc. are responsible for his/her condition. Street and Working Children (SWC) are direct victims of these unsavory socio-economic conditions. We believe that
SWC are no different to others and their rights are no exception. They are part of this country as any other individual and they should be treated like every other citizen of this country.
OUR APPROACH
CHETNA firmly believes that participation leads to empowerment. This is realized by making children participate in the ORGANISATIONs programs as an inherent component giving them opportunity to get involved in conceiving, designing and implementing the activities. Participatory approach with children is cherished as a core value within CHETNA.
CHETNA was registered on March 8, 2002 under Indian Public Charitable Trust Act 1882. Since then, our effort has been directed at creating a child-friendly society. With lot of achievements in the past, CHETNA has grown to be a pioneering ORGANISATION in raising child protection issues, especially issues pertaining to children in difficult circumstances. The ORGANISATION complies with all the legal norms of a non-profit ORGANISATION. We hold ourselves accountable to government, to our beneficiary groups, body of NGOs we work with and to the society as a whole for all our activities. CHETNA maintains transparency in its work by making all the relevant information available to people. Besides different stakeholders, studies and reports are also shared with other ORGANISATIONs. At CHETNA, we have an ORGANISATIONAL structure crafted to produce efficient monitoring, smooth supervision, candid communication and nurturing guidance for its members. The day-today work of planning and implementation is overseen by the director, who is accountable to the Board of Trustees. However, the ORGANISATION has a decentralized structure, where decision making is made easy. Matters pertaining to decisions at various levels have been delegated to the field staff, up till ORGANISATIONs lowest rank and file. The communication in the ORGANISATION flows in both directions: bottom-up and top-down, as per the work requirement. We
have a well-defined HR policy for our employees. A clear and explicit job description helps reduce duplication of work and optimal use of our resources. CHETNA is manned by a team of experienced social workers and dedicated professionals and paraprofessionals. Some of its team members have been street and working children, who worked their way out of destitution with CHETNAs assistance. CHETNAs team is gender-balanced and does not differentiate on the basis of caste, creed or religion.
HOW WE WORK
With an experience of more than a decade of working with SCW, we have developed a unique three pronged strategy- direct action with children, sensitization of stakeholders and advocacy, to realize our objectives and bring a sustainable change in the life of Street and Working Children.
Alternative Education: Education is an important tool for the successful transition of SWC from victimization to empowerment, but unfortunately SWC have little or no access to education facilities. With a well-planned effort and indigenously developed curriculum consisting of Srijan- A handbook for street educators, concept of worksheets, flashcards, etc. we try to educate these children to a basic level, instill an interest for education among these first generation learners and finally integrate them with formal schools.
Recreation: CHETNA has conceived and put into practice a series of good activities for the recreation of Street and Working Children, which include indoor/outdoor games and sports, art classes, sports competitions, fun-trips to interesting and educational places, etc.
NIOS: To open opportunity of higher education for SWC, CHETNA has affiliated with National Institute of Open School (NIOS) to run Open Basic Education (OBE) center specifically for street children.
Workshops: Two types of workshops are conducted at CHETNA: Life-skill workshop- Devised to teach children negotiation skills, how to keep away from substance abuse and other bad habits and hone childrens skills pertaining to the needs of their every-day life. Leadership workshop- It is a residential workshop organized to enhance their leadership skills and decision making ability, which are very vital for their life-long learning.
Badhte Kadam: Badhte Kadam is a unique federation of Street and Working Children. They meet once in a month to discuss their issues. In the federation, children themselves set the agenda and conduct the meeting. It benefits children in multiple ways: It empowers them, lifts their self-esteem and most importantly grooms their leadership skills.[link, URL (to be added later)]
Support Groups: Support groups are the contact-point level units of Badhte Kadam. They meet once in a month. SWC, themselves set agenda and conduct the proceedings of the meeting.
Reunion with Families: A lot of children run away from home and make railway stations and streets their home. For their repatriation and rehabilitation, as per the guidelines of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act, efforts are made to re-unite them with their families or adjust them in government approved shelter homes.
Rescuing of Working Children: Exploitative practice of child labor is still a reality in our society. CHETNA puts sincere efforts to rescue children from their exploitative labor relations.
Birth Registration: Birth certificate being the first document giving child an identity is vital for his/her access to opportunities. CHETNA organizes Universal Birth Registration (UBR) camps to aware parents about the importance of birth registration certificate and informs them about the procedure of obtaining it. A large number of SWCs are reported to have benefited from this.
Health Camps: Organizing health camps is an attempt to create awareness among the children about health and hygiene and meet their health needs. Different types of camps are organized for different needs of children.
Drug Therapy & Counselling: CHETNA has designed a unique concept of taking children out from substance abuse by nonmedicinal approach. Children are engaged in recreation, art and craft, dance, etc. to keep them away from the intake of substances. Four such centers are operating in Nizamuddin, Mathura, Agra and Jhansi.
Vocational Training: Vocational training is offered to give older minors a perspective of self-sufficiency. Other Activities: : Furthermore, CHETNA organizes a yearly Lost & Found Camp at Kalkaji temple during the festive season, exposure visits to police stations and health care facilities for street children, and more.
Project- Realizing Rights aims at all-round development of 8,200 Street and Working Children (SWC) in its project areas, ensuring their rights to survival, protection, development and participation. Besides, it also aims to provide basic services to these children. Rationale Street and Working Children (SWC) suffer from the worst kind of deprivation and denial of basic necessities such as education, recreation, food, shelter, clothing, protection from exploitation and much more. In the backdrop of this dismal condition of SWC in the target areas, CHETNA, in coordination with Hope for Children, has initiated an ambitious program called Realizing Rights. Target Group
Street and working children Non-school going vagabond children Drop-out children
Work Area The project operates in the selected pockets of the following 7 districts:
West Delhi
To realize the projects objectives, 82 contact points have been established dotting the vulnerable areas of the above districts, where concentration of SWC is found to be more than normal. Methods and Strategies In all the activities of the project, participation of children has been given enormous importance. CHETNA firmly believes that participation leads to empowerment. Accepting the adage in letter and spirit, children have been made a party to the project. It is designed in a manner where children have a significant say in conceiving, designing, and implementing the activities. The project is grounded on three-pronged strategy: direct action with children, advocacy, and sensitizing stakeholders. Activities of the Project The project -Realizing Rights, comprises of a number of inter-linked activities. Keeping in view the aims and objectives of the project, following activities have been designed: exposure visits, police station visits, health camps, stakeholders meeting, Universal Birth Registration
camps, etc. In addition to these activities the project also lays exclusive and more serious emphasis on education. With this program, a serious effort has been put in the direction of providing alternative education to SWC ensuring their way to formal schools. Project Partners Comic Relief: Prime Donor (www.comicrelief.com) Hope for Children: Fund Managing Partner (www.hope-forchildren.org) Consortium for Street Children: Capacity Building Partner (www.streetchildren.org.uk) CHETNA: Implementing Partner (www.chetna-india.org)
DREAM ON WHEELS
Project Objective The project seeks to ensure the children living or working on railway platforms, with their families. Rationale The project is a systematic response to the increasing number of children living
their rights, opportunities to grow and develop, and to integrate and reunite them
or working on railway platforms (from Agra to Gwalior) and their increasingly deteriorating situation. Day in and day out they are exposed to serious kinds of risks and abuses.
Target Group Children who work and live on railway platforms Children who work inside trains Children who come from nearby communities to railway stations to earn their livelihood Lost children found on railway platforms
Work Area The working area for this project includes railway stations and its surrounding communities from Nizamuddin to Jhansi, including Mathura, Agra and Gwalior. Methods All the aspects of Direct action with children are employed as the projects activities. Sensitization of stakeholders and advocacy measures are other important methods of the project. Project partner PLAN India : (www.planindia.org)
CHILDLINE, AGRA
Project Objective CHILDLINE in Agra is established to provide assistance to all the children who are in need of care and protection in the district. The service is provided through a toll-free 24-hour emergency phone service (1098). It aims to respond not only to their long-term care and rehabilitation. CHILDLINE has been designed to act as a crucial link between children in need of care and protection and the available advice, and active intervention. Rationale Children face atrocities both at home and away. Even parents, in many cases,
their emergency needs but also to link them to various services established for
have been found to exploit their own children. In their tender age they are forced required to work in inhumane condition. In an effort to get out of such
to earn money for themselves and familys adult members. Sometimes, they are
exploitative structure, they leave their home and join the band of Street and multiple kinds: Sometimes they are battered by police or they become victims of
Working Children in big cities. However, there again they face exploitation of child-trafficking, substance abuse and sexual abuse. They are also found to be less.
exploited by the employers they are forced to work for more hours but paid
Target Groups We work for the protection of the rights of all children in general. But our special
focus is on children in need of care and protection, especially the more vulnerable sections, which include: Street children and youth living alone on the help (especially girls), children affected by physical / sexual / emotional abuse in streets, child laborers working in unorganized and organized sectors, domestic family, schools or institutions, children who need emotional support and victims of child trafficking, children abandoned by parents or guardians, missing
guidance, children of commercial sex workers, child victims of the flesh trade, children, run away children, children who are victims of substance abuse, differently-abled children, children in conflict with the law, children in institutions, mentally challenged children, HIV/ AIDS infected children, children affected by conflict and disaster, child political refugees and children whose families are in crises.
Work Area: The project work in this case is done all across district Agra. Methods CHETNA is one of CHILDLINEs partner ORGANISATIONs. CHILDLINE- Agra is run and managed by CHETNA with its 12-member team. Though it works for the children in need of care and protection. protection and rights of all children in general but gives special attention to the
STREET TO SCHOOL
Project Objective The project strives to achieve all-round development in the working children of Lajpat Nagar market. It aims to provide them with a stimulating and nurturing environment.
rights.
To sensitize their parents and other stakeholders towards the basic child
Rationale Lajpat Nagar is one of the most crowded and busiest markets of Delhi. The Therefore, their concentration in the market area is quite high. They earn their
opportunity to work cultivated by the market attracts SWC in large numbers. livelihood by picking rags, polishing shoes, selling petty goods, working as
domestic servants and sometimes by begging. They live without the basic regarded to be sine-qua-non for development.
Target Groups Street and working children who work and live in Lajpat Nagar Market in the market.
Children who come from the neighborhood to earn their living by working
Work Area: Lajpat Nagar Market Methods These children come to the centre named Sapnon Ki Duniya according to their
convenience of time. At the centre they are nursed with non-formal education. Besides education, they are also provided with recreation activities, nutrition, skills in art and craft, and dance classes. Occasionally, they are also taken to the sites of interest. Children who begin to perform well at the centre are linked to regularly sensitized towards the needs of these children. Project Partners Save the children (www.savethechildren.in)
mainstream formal education. Their parents and the local stakeholders are
Project- Realizing Rights aims at all-round development of 8,200 Street and Working Children (SWC) in its project areas, ensuring their rights to survival, protection, development and participation. Besides, it also aims to provide basic services to these children.
What are the causes that CHETNA work towards? We mainly work towards , education of children living in urban slums and rural villages through our CHETNA education programme. How many projects do you have in the country? We have our projects running in West Delhi, South Delhi, NOIDA,
utilization of funds. In addition, at CHETNA , we do not accept any cash donations. In order to maintain transparency we encourage our supporters to make all donations only through cheques, demand drafts, credit cards or online payments. From where do you get the funds? We get a good amount of funds from the corporate world, various foundations, banks, individuals, and we also have collaborations with key stakeholders to further the agenda of improving health of the urban poor. With who have you got collaborated with? We have collaboration with: World Learning Johns Hopkins University All India Institute of Local Self-Government National Resource Centre on Urban Poverty Immunization Basics Indin Pediatrics Indian Association of Prevention and Social Medicine The problem faced for the development work? The only problem faced by the NGO was that in the starting when they had limited financial resources and none knew about the NGO the time it was started. At, a later stage it was even recognized by the government. Department of Health and Family Welfare, Indore District UnitedState Agency for International Development