It is a partneship between us and the builders in the city of bangalore. Our creches on construction sites provide two hundred children with a safe haven with in the building site itself.
Ashraya has since 1982, run creches on over 40 large construction sitesin the city.
Our trained committed staff impart literacy and craft training. A nutritious diet and medical cover and immunization, has improved the health of the children drastically. Parents involvement has grown through family meetings and informal interaction between them and our creche staff.
Target segment :Women
Coverage : Households covered
Project Locations : bangalore
Neelbagh residential School
In 1996, Ashraya started a residential school for children of migrant labour, 100 km. from Bangalore, near Madanapally. This is the only school of its kind in the country addressing the long-term educational needs of children of migrant workers. The school has classes from LKG to 10th standard, follows a Kannada medium SSLC syllabus and has a large component of vocational training, as a part of the curriculum.
We have impressive facilities for the children, which include an excellent library, comfortable classrooms, a computer center and good infrastructure for sports and extra-curricular activities, like dance, music and theatre. We have a programme for vocational training, in carpentry, electrical wiring, plumbing, pottery, tailoring and bee-keeping.
There are 300 students in this co-educational school, 90 of whom are children of construction workers, who are in our hostels. The other children are from the villages in the vicinity from BPL families.
This school fulfills a longstanding need we have felt, to assist children, in our crèches, in a more intrinsic fashion.
Target segment :Children
Coverage : Households covered
Project Locations : Madanapally
Childrens' Home
Ashraya has played a stellar role in promoting good adoption practice throughout the country. We have been recognized as an Adoption agency in the Ministry of Social Welfare, Central Adoption Resource Agency, Govt of India. Over the years we have placed more than 900 children legally in adoption, both in India and abroad, and are deeply satisfied that these children did not grow up in institutional care, but, instead, are with loving families.
Our children’s home is characterized by a warm and happy atmosphere and excellent care, with a high staff-to-children ratio. We have excellent
facilities to care for new born babies to children aged about 12. All children in the home will be placed in adoption, once they are declared free for placement. Ashraya is reputed to place more “Special Needs Children ” in adoption than any other agency in the country. Our ”Special Needs” programme helps to place physically handicapped children, older children and sibling groups, in loving homes.
We believe that you “Find Parents for Children and not Children for Parents” i.e. that the child’s needs are of the utmost importance. At any given time we have at least 20 handicapped children in our care.
Finding good homes for these children is one of the most satisfying aspects of our work.
We also have a dynamic domestic adoption programme and all our healthy normal young children are placed in domestic adoption, as a priority. A well-developed counseling service helps local couples wishing to adopt. The “Lost Children Programme” operates out of the children’s home. Ashraya offers temporary shelter to lost children and works with the City Police and Makkala Sahaya Vani (Child Help Line), in sparing no efforts in restoring lost children to their families and rehabilitating abandoned children.
Target segment :Children
Coverage : Households covered
Project Locations : bangalore
Observation Home
In a path breaking program, Ashraya, in collaboration with two other NGOs and the Government, runs the Government Observation Home located at Koramangala in Bangalore. The Observation Home is a facility for boys in conflict with the law.
A need was felt to make the lives of juvenile delinquents and other less fortunate children and teenagers more meaningful. Ashraya runs an opportunity school in the Boys Observation Home in Koramangala, where these boys are kept productively occupied mentally and physically. We have provided a teacher through our own resources and run a non-formal school at the Centre, as there is no provision under the Act to run a school. We also have a resource person who does motivational activities with the boys, like drama, dance, music and games.
We have also seen to it that conditions with regard to the living spaces, food and clothing and hygiene of the boys has improved greatly.
Without doubt it is one of the best run and most open Government Institutions in the country. In fact the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, have been so taken with this initiative, that the project has been included in the proposed “Integrated Child Protection Scheme” to the Planning Commission for the next plan.
Target segment :Children
Coverage : Households covered
Project Locations : Bangalore
TARA - Ashraya Women’s Home
Tara is a residential centre that extends services to battered, abused and abandoned women and assists them to keep their children, rather than relinquish them.
Our aim has been to get women to be self-reliant and to be able to stand on their own feet and to care for their children. Our services include
* Shelter for women and children for a maximum of 2 years
* Counselling
* Legal-aid
* Training and job-placement
* Healthcare for women and children
* Help for unwed mothers
* The multi-purpose Centre has 23
residential units for mother and children, a health centre, a day care centre for children and training centre. It is innovatively and attractively built, with features such as low cost construction, solar heating and smokeless chulas.
Women are encouraged to start a savings account and most of them have substantial savings by the time they leave us, after a two - year stay. Earning their own money and having the right to spend it the way they want, goes a long way in building up their self confidence.
