Children's Home

PAF is now running with 30 orphan children taking full responsibilities, food, shelter, education and bringing them up in homely atmosphere with love, affection and security.

We also organized AFTER SCHOOL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME (COACHING) for poor and less meritorious students of near by villages, student's strength 300.

Pre-Primary Education Centre

Local infants are brought to our centre to render education through games and funs, student’s strength 36.

A BRIDGE COURSE for dropout children of the locality, student's strength 12.

Free Text Book Library (Jagarani)

we provide both syllabus and non syllabus books starting from class I to X to all needy poor children of near by villages.

Vocational Trainning Programme

Vocational Trainning Programme for poor needy men and women in the villages, in these programme already 29 girls has been enrolled.

Background

In our society there are few children who are either parentless or are having single parents. In some case there exist someone who takes care of these children but in most of the cases they have no one to look after. As they have to look after themselves to fill their stomach they often land up streets or railway platform and start begging, picking rags, or get involve in any anti social activities. The government has step up some juvenile home (an institution to provide shelter to child in need of care and protection) but these government run juvenile homes are very less in number as compared to the number of child in need of such institution. Considering the same and in order to secure future of our nation Purbachal Ananda Foundation has set up a shelter for these children. This home is situated in Purakanda Village of Bankura district, and is one hour by road from Durgapur via Barjora.

Criteria and Process of Selection

The home extend support to the children of 3 years and upwards, living in red light areas, on the streets or children or children of single parents not capable to take care their child, irrespective of their sex, caste, religion or geographical location. After receiving any information about any such children in need of care and protection our volunteers carries out a visit to analyse the vulnerability of the child and based on the same we take the responsibility of that child. One the responsibility is taken then Purbachal Ananda Foundation aims to ensure proper upbringing and education of these children up to the age of eighteen and/or till they find gainful employment. Presently, with the very limited resources we are serving thirty children.

Outcome

Thirty children in need of care and protection, provided with the much needed shelter and environment for their proper upbringing, will become respectable citizen of India.

Output

• Thirty inmates of the home will be ensured with a proper shelter and nutritional support required for the upbringing of a child.

• The inmates of the home will carry out their education in the formal schools.

• Thirty inmates are provided with a positive environment for their all round development of the child.

Activities Undertaken

Providing Shelter to children

The children are provided with a shelter which is made as child friendly as per possible as per our limited resources. There is two rooms, one for boys and girls each along with tube well and proper toilet facility. This land for the shelter is donated by Gouriya Math and the infrastructure is built with support from Rotary club and individual donations. These infrastructure needs maintenance to keep it in good shape.

Nutritional Support to Children

As the age of the inmates are the age where major development of the body occurs. So, the proper balance which includes carbohydrates, protein, vitamins and other necessary nutrients is very important for these children. A proper diet chart will be prepared in consultation with the dieticians and will be followed religiously.

Medicinal Support for Children

Routine health check up is very important part for proper fitness of any person but when it comes to the proper upbringing of children the health check ups becomes part and parcel. So, in order to monitor the health conditions of the children monthly routine check ups will be organised by the registered doctors. Apart from that they will taken for consultation of doctors and provided with appropriate medication if any abnormalities are found in their health.

Educational Support to the children

All the children of school going age are admitted to the nearest government school to continue their formal education. But often they are found lagging behind without proper guidance, so a separate coaching guidance facilities will be provided so that they don't lag behind and able to perform nicely.

Psychosocial Support:

In order to ensure all round development of the children, apart from education other aspects like physical health and cultural creative skills are also quite important. Presently through resource mobilisation, the children are provided with few games and sports material but with the support various other materials which will add on to the development of the children will be provided. Apart from that based on their area of interest art, music and dancing skills will be honed. With the help of these skills they will be able to participate and perform nicely in various events organised in school. This in turn will boast their self confidence and personality.

Indicators

• The inmates register of the home which shows the number of inmates in the home.

• The report card of the children of present academic year and the previous academic year through which the improvement of the performance in school can be compared.

• The diet chart of the home and daily food register mentioning the daily menu.

• The health card for the children which will indicate the monthly routine check ups.

• The number of events in which the inmates have participated and performed nicely.

Programme Management

The superintendent will be the person responsible the overall running of the home, its documentation and relationship building with various stake holders. The House Mother will be in – charge of the day to day activity of the home and ensure that the routines of the home are followed. The cook will be responsible for preparing the food for the inmates of the home. A local person who will act as a watchman and also cultivate few vegetables on the land belonging to the home, so that the inmates can consume the home cultivated vegetables. Two caregivers one for boys and other for girls who will take care of the rooms of the children, their behaviour with each other and provide educational support to the children.