Year since Smile is supporting
this project: 2007
Number of beneficiaries -50 |
“We
are very much grateful to Smile Foundation India towards their
great contribution to convert the drop out children into decent
scholars as it happened with the children of poor quarry workers
at Panchgaon”.
Mr. Ram Ingole
Secretary-Amrapali Utkarsh Sangh, Nagpur
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Smile Foundation, along with Amrapali Utkarsh Sangha,
Nagpur has initiated a project to provide residential education support
to children of deprived parents.
The beneficiaries are children of either sex workers,
poor labourers working in stone crushers or parents from underprivileged
backgrounds around Nagpur in Maharashtra.
About The Project
The project is being implemented through ‘Naveen
Bhai Desai Residential School’. The underprivileged children will
get education and care which otherwise would never have been possible
in their normal family environment.
There are about 104 stone crushers
in and around Nagpur alone and children of particularly those parents
who work in the crushers suffer the most in terms of education and
upbringing. The situation is really bad for the children as there
is no school or hospital in these areas and rarely any government
or non governmental intervention is running in the vicinity.
About The Partner
Amrapali
Utkarsh Sangha is a reputed organization working for most needy
children from different categories in Nagpur area for nearly three
decades now.
The organization have been running residential schools, family centres,
community based programmes and coordinated care intervention especially
for children of sex workers from Ganga Jamuna Red Light Area in
Nagpur and also children of quarry workers in Panchgaon area since
1980.
Naveen Bhai Desai Residential School is providing residential and
education facilities to 50 children in the first year with support
from Smile Foundation. Each year 50 new students will be admitted.
Special Focus
Appropriate atmosphere will be ensured for children of sex workers,
and those with disturbed background, for a better future and place in
the society
Care will also be taken to include children of Naxalite affected
parents and those from SC (scheduled caste), ST (scheduled tribe) and
tribal background
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