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- director@kidpower.org.in
- 21-167, Srinivasa Nagar, Simachalam Raod, Visakhapatnam- 530028, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Slum Adoption
Urban centres present an opportunity for people from rural to migrate for livelihoods. However, as more and more people migrate they also create conditions within which poverty spreads. Children and women are worse off in such situations.
Child Labour Prevention
Kidpower India is working in the slums of Visakhapatnam to eradicate child labour through bridge schools and full scholarships for children to study in low cost private schools. Most of the families are rag pickets, hair collection, selling brooms, begging and few go to daily wage labor. They are in extreme poverty and have no savings. It is to be noted most of the families are of large size with each family having 3-4 children on an average.
At present, we are working in 2 slums of Visakhapatnam: Ekalavya Colony and Chittibabu Colony. About 430 families live in these slums. With the support of CCI, Canada we are running two bridge schools: Hope and LG bridge schools. Around 20-30 children attend the schools and are provided basic education.
At present, we are working in 2 slums of Visakhapatnam: Ekalavya Colony and Chittibabu Colony. About 430 families live in these slums. With the support of CCI, Canada we are running two bridge schools: Hope and LG bridge schools. Around 20-30 children attend the schools and are provided basic education. After a year they are integrated back into regular schools. When the children are in extreme poverty and the parents are in no position to support the education then we provide the child full scholarship and take care of the child education cost.
Improving Situation of Women
Because of lack of skilled training many women are working in hazardous and ill payed jobs like rag picking, scrap collection, hair collection etc. In order to allow the woman to choose a more respected and better paid profession, we have started tailoring classes in the slums. To switch from their present profession to tailoring the course has to be tailor made and they need lot of support.
After thorough learning and ample practice the women can choose to join to work with some of the established tailors or they can work from home by accepting to stitch clothes in their neighbourhoods. What is heartening to see is that most of participants are young, means 16-18 years. This are girls who have dropped out of education. It is very good that they are coming forward to learn the course. This will help them to explore new career rather than following their parents into rag-picking or getting married immediately.
Food Security
As a community which lives on day to day basis, Coronavirus, abbreviated COVID-19, has long devastating effect on the lives of the slum dwellers. Apart from reduced income they also have to battle the inflation of food items. The impact is more strongly felt in the vulnerable groups: old people and families with large children. In order to support the vulnerable communities overcome the devasting economic impact, we started providing ration kits from the beginning of April 2019.
The dry ration kit consisted of 15-25 Kgs of rice, dal, cooking oil, sugar, nutritious supplements and sanitation items. In the beginning months of COVID19 pandemic, the focus was on members of community who were unable to work because of lockdown rules and have lost their income. Now our focus is on vulnerable groups. The old people are not allowed to work or go out because of the specific COVID19 infection risk they face. While a number of children are not receiving enough food and are staying hungry. We are providing dray ration kits to 100+ old people and 200+ families with large number of children.
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