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About the Organisation
This section gives a brief idea about the organisation. Please check the Pics & Docs tab for latest documents.
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Objective / Goals of the Project
• The overall goal of the proposed programme is to set up a mechanism to help upto 10000+ children who are missing, separated or have run away from home and reunite with their families
• Setting up and operationalizing Open Shelters for rescue and rehabilitation of “railway children” in the railway stations with the support of respective State Departments of Women and Child Development under ICPS and Railways
• Working with the Govt. Children Homes towards counselling, psychological support and home placement of children lodged there
• Helping the vulnerable children get into mainstream society by conducting de-addiction and home orientation camps
• Advocacy with relevant Govt. Departments on issues faced by the children
o Create a safe and secure environment for runaway children, rescued from railway platforms, in Sathi’s shelters, Government Homes, institutions and other NGO shelters, so as to protect the child from neglect and abuse.
o Reunite the runaway or separated child with the family, and to address the causes that had precipitated the child to run away, so as to prevent them from running away again, as the family is the best place for the child.
o Track reunited children limited period of time to assess and encourage their integration with the family.
o Facilitate the child protection system from the grassroots to State level with a view to rehabilitate children with their families.
o To generate and share practice-based knowledge related to runaway and separated children, within the child protection system, so as to improve interventions in the interest of rehabilitating the child with the family.
o To implement best practices related to quality rehabilitation of children with their families, and to facilitate the implementation of these best practices by the State and NGO sector working on the issue of runaway and separated children.
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Achievements in the year 2016 - 2017
1. ‘Railway Childline’ is an initiative of Ministry of Women and Child Development, GOI for ‘Children in contact with Railways and needing help’. In 2016-17, SATHI partnered with ‘Childline India Foundation’ to operate ‘Railway Childline’ at Visakhapatnam railway station, and the work began in October 2016.
2. Sathi is running 11 open shelters in across India, among them 6 shelters are supported by MWCD, GoI under ICPS. Remaining 5 shelters are supported by other funding agencies.
3. During the year 2016-17, SATHI rescued 10,100 children from 18 railway stations in 9 states across India. Among them SATHI was able to repatriate 8516 children back to family and remaining children referred to various institutional care running by government and NGOs.
4. This year SATHI worked in 28 Govt. Homes (14 Govt. Girls’ Homes, 13 Govt. Boys’ Homes and one Children’s Home), with 6 Govt. Homes being SATHI’S first time intervention. In these Govt. Homes, 1798 children were counselled and addresses of 55% of children were traced. Addresses of 20% children could not be traced and tracing addresses of 25% of children is under way.
5. During this year, 7 camps were organised in 4 states. 176 children rescued from platforms and those staying for more than 3 months at Govt. Homes participated in these camps. Among the children selected at camps this year, 60% of children were repeated runaways while 40% were addicted to substance. SATHI was successful in tracing addresses of 81% children involved in camps. Of those whose addresses were traced, 93% of children were reunited with their parents or families. The remaining 7% are still staying at Govt. Homes.
6. Along with regular outreach work, we conduct intense operations called as ‘Rescue Drive-Early Intervention’. These operations are conducted at project and non-project locations of Sathi.10-12 staffs and volunteers work in shifts of 12-14 hours thus, increasing the possibility of rescuing more number of children within a given day. 926 children were rescued from 40 rescue drives (31 in project locations and 9 in non-project locations) in this year.
7. 149 Family Reunion programs have been organised across locations in the year 2016. Dignitaries from Department of Women and Child, CWC members, police officials, organizations, academicians, railway authorities and individuals working with children are invited to these functions. These are emotional events. It is extremely fulfilling to see children finally leaving for their homes with their parents. Shri Suresh Prabhu, the Honourable Minister for Railways and Shri. Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi witnessed such programs during this year.
8. SATHI has been engaging with officials in the MWCD on a wide range of issues. These include support and guidance to run Open Shelters for railway children, allow multiple NGOs to work on stations where Railway Childline is available. On February 16, 2017, SATHI met with Smt. Maneka Gandhi, Honourable Minister for Women and Child Development. Issues like running open shelters across 60 locations need of a mother NGO, proposals for running open shelters at 5 locations etc were put forth. In February 2016, SATHI was selected by Department of Social Welfare, Govt. of Bihar to run an Open Shelter for Boys in Darbhanga.
9. We receive support from Govt. Railway Police, Railway Protection Force and Railway authorities at various stages of our work. We receive their constant support like in daily dairy entries of rescued children, in counselling, address tracing of parents. Other than Govt. authorities, vendors, coolies and general public also help us at the platform.
10. Yoga classes, Drawing sessions, Story-telling sessions, Extra-curricular activities, outdoor games are conducted for children at Sathi shelters. This year, computers have been installed across locations for engaging children. Festivals like Independence Day, Holi, Diwali etc. & Birthdays of children are celebrated at Sathi shelters.
11. ISKCON donated free lunch for children at Yeshwantpur, Bangalore and New Delhi, Sai Temple in Delhi provided free food for once in a week. NGO GOONJ at New Delhi provided food material, games material, clothes and musical instrument. At other locations, many individual donors donated money, kitchen items, food, games material, clothes, blankets, bed sheets.
12. Ms.Gangandeep Kaur, Clinical Psychologist from Unique psychological solutions, New Delhi, helped us in developing a manual on ‘Various Practices of Engaging with the Child in 2016-17’ was developed.
13. SATHI conducts follow ups of children for a year after their restoration. It helps in understanding the pace of their reintegration. Follow ups are of two kinds, namely, telephonic follow ups and physical visits to the homes of restored children. Telephonic follow ups are done for every child. The first call is made one month after restoration. The second and third call follows after 3 months and 6 months of the first call, respectively. This year telephonic calls were made to 6000 children restored from shelter, camps and Govt. Homes. SATHI was able to contact 67% of children and the remaining 33% could not be contacted.
14. Physical follow ups of around 380 children across 6 locations in Berhampur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mughalsarai, Patna and Visakhapatnam was done. During physical follow ups, SATHI learnt that 2% of the restored children have migrated to other places. SATHI is happy to know that 96% of the remaining children continue to stay or be in touch with their families. Of these, 97% stay at home while 3% stay away but are very much in touch with their families. Among those in touch with families, 59% of children are now staying at home studying and 25% are working either nearby or away from home. 16% are idle at home.
15. A study on status of children reunited with their families in 2005-06 was conducted in 2016-17, 10 years since their home repatriation. The purpose was to know how responsible the children had become towards themselves, their family and society. We intended to understand the long term impact of ‘rescuing children from platforms’ and ‘reuniting them with their families’. We took 144 cases all from Bangalore and Wadi in Karnataka, and Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh. 120 addresses could be located. 15 families had moved out and were not traceable. In the end, we could meet 105 families. Among these 105, 2 children had run away, and unfortunately another 6 are no more. Thus, we could meet 95 children. One of the 95 is physically challenged and is not working. Another is in jail for a crime. It was satisfying to see the children fulfill their responsibilities.
16. Identification of Vulnerable and Needy children in Villages of India – Integrated Child Protection Scheme ensures to provide preventive, statutory, care and rehabilitation services to vulnerable children including children from potentially vulnerable families and families at risk. This year SATHI conducted a survey on identifying needy and vulnerable children in villages of Varanasi and Visakhapatnam. This survey was to find out the number of such children, the kind of help they require and most importantly in linking these children to ICPS scheme. One district each from Varanasi and Visakhapatnam were included in the study. 9 staff and 10 volunteers surveyed 123 villages in 13 days. 176 children from 73 villages of Varanasi and 172 children from 50 villages of Visakhapatnam were identified as needy and vulnerable. This is a unique survey of voluntarily screening villages in identifying vulnerable and needy children. The number of children in need in just few villages tells us about the many more needy children in villages of different states across India. A consolidated report of both the studies has been submitted to respective DCPU, CWCs and DWCD.
17. In 2016-17, ‘Goonjan android app’ has been developed to enable real-time feeding of profile of children at the railway platforms. SATHI’s data management systems have evolved and become robust over a period of time, with the level of data captured per child being exhaustive. This year, we proposed that the system can be adopted and used by multiple organizations working in the same field. Towards this, SATHI has demonstrated the entire process and its benefits to different organizations including funding agencies and consulting organizations including Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives, Dalberg, Mumbai and IFMR (Institute of Financial management & Resource, Chennai). We are also exploring if the process and model can be adopted or integrated with Childline’s data capture process, especially in locations where Railway Childline has been started.
18. SATHI has started entering details of found children in the KhoyaPaya portal provided by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Govt. of India. In 2016-2017, 1245 entries were made by SATHI on the portal.
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SATHI, a voluntary organisation registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act 1960, whose objective to restore separated and runaway children found on railway platforms to their families. SATHI rescues children from railway platforms, offers them protection at shelters, provides counselling & psychological support and attempts to reunite the child with the family, provided there is a caring and conducive environment for the child’s holistic growth. SATHI gradually expanded its presence and now has presence in 9 states across India. Over the past 24 years, SATHI has reunited more than 60,000 children back with their families.
To create a safe and secure environment for runaway children rescued from railway platforms in SATHI’s shelters, Government Homes, Institutions and other NGO shelters and protect children from being ignored and from possible abuses. Also to reunite the runaway or separated children with their families, and address the causes that leads them to run away with an aim to prevent them from repeating the behaviour.
A safe, secure and nurturing environment for lost, runaway and separated children to grow holistically with self-confidence, self-worth and dignity.
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Having more than 30 years of experience in the development sector. Mr. Basavaraj Shali, presently Secretary to the Governing Board heads the operations across the country and is a committed development professional who has risen through the ranks and has an experience of 22 years.
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