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| RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMMES » Asha Niketan Home For The Boys: ...... |
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| Br. H.K. Chetty Directer ADF with Mrs. Damyanti Goyal, Mayor of Ghaziabad |
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One of the earliest projects started by ADF was that of the Street and Working children. As a part of the project, in 1992, it established a shelter home for the boys in Nand Nagri area of East Delhi. Subsequently in 1994, the Asha Niketan Home for the Boys was constructed in Shahid Nagar in the D-81 campus of ADF. Initiated in 1992, the Shelter Home was established as a hope for the street and working children and seeks to provide these hapless children the basic necessities of life and make them responsible, reliable and productive members of the society. With the foremost objective of helping the children re-unite with their parents, the Ashaniketan Home, continues to live up to its mission.
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| Asha Niketan Home For The Boys |
The Asha Niketan Boys Home exclusively operates for street children who have abandoned their families in village or small towns on account of diverse situations known to them, particularly due to extreme poverty. For their livelihood they take shelter in large cities like Delhi, where they hope to get immediate odd jobs or a little cash by begging on the streets or daily food from charitable temples. Having arrived in the cities, they are taken unaware by the fact that they are subjected to various forms of abuses and exploitations. They can be of any age, beginning from 5 to 6 years old. They are referred to Asha Niketan Boys Home if found by any NGO working for street children. Initially they find difficult to settle down because of the new environment and party due to the discipline of the home but soon they adapt to the situation, realizing the safety, security and protection that the home provides them. However, a few have been rehabilitated back to their families and two or three have left the home to be back on street to enjoy the pleasure the street provides. The home provides a healthy, joyful and peaceful environment. Emphasis is given on their overall development so that they could grow as a normal person. Freedom and wider opportunities are provided for the boys to choose and develop a career of their own choice. Many older boys, having completed their studies and training, have engaged in good jobs and settled outside the home in the neighbouring colony. Those who have completed 18 years of age are living outside the home but pursuing their studies and receiving all help from the home
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| Children of the Boys and Girls Home |
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| Director of HCDI, Pune with two boys from the boys home who have become self independent |
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| Aim Of The Home: |
| The aim of the Asha Niketan Boys Home is to rescue the children from difficult circumstances and to provide shelter, love, care and education to those who get lost in the streets of Delhi, are homeless, orphans, or are living under such conditions that amount to denigrate the life of the child. The Home ensures holistic development of the children making them self-reliant and responsible members of the society. |
| Objectives Of The Project: |
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Provide secured shelter to the children;
Reunite the children back to their parents whenever possible;
Provide a home like environment to the children facilitating their holistic development;
Provide education to all the children in the home;
Help develop their skills through vocational training, workshops and seminars to make them self reliant ;
Help develop leadership qualities amongst the children;
Empower them by creating awareness on child rights and health awareness particularly related to adulthood, hygiene and AIDS;
Provide a platform to expose their talents and abilities through various cultural and extra-curricular activities;
Provide exposure to the children through trips and summer camps and
Provide regular medical check-up and counseling services to the children
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| Admission In The Boys Home And Their Repatriation: |
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Street and working children get into the Boys Home through the Area Points.
Admission into the Home is open through out the year. While some children are repatriated with their parents and leave the Home, new children get into the home almost every month. Some children, after admission, make their way out of the home and run away for their open homes in the streets. This is not unexpected of those who live in the company of similar children with whom they had developed emotional attachment. The strict disciplinarian life in the home unknown to these children, also prompt them initially to run away for the carefree life in the streets. Not all the children remain away from the Transit Home for long time. Some come back to the Transit Home after realizing their mistake.
There are 48 children in the home as on March 31,2007.
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| Boys Of The Home In Formal And Non-Formal Schools Of ADF: |
One of the objectives of the Boys Home is to provide formal & non-formal education to the street and working children residing in the Home. Children are admitted either to Formal or Non-formal schools of ADF as per their age and level of education already possessed. The number of street and working children of the Home currently studying in Formal and Non-formal schools of ADF are 32 and 13 respectively. |
| Children Of The Home Attending Vocational Courses In Asha Vocational & Technical Training Institute |
A primary objective of setting up the Vocational and Technical Training institute was to provide technical education to the street and working children and to help them in their skill formation, thus making them employable. This was perceived to be essential as technical expertise in a trade, along with formal or non-formal education, is alone considered as a step towards their self-sustainance and empowerment. A total of 18 children of are attending the vocational training courses run by Asha VTTI. Presently Asha Vocationa Technical Training Institute offering 10 vocational training courses such as Mobile Repairing, Computer H/W & S/W, Electronics, Electricals, A/C & Refrigeration, Textile Designing, Painting, English Speaking etc. The most sought after courses of children is mobile repairing and computer course.
In the home, the children celebrate various festivals and occasions. Workshops and seminars are conducted for the children from time to time. The children are taken out for excursions, summer camps and educational trips. Along with the children of the Girls Home, the Boys Home children also take active part in the Sunday school programme and participate in Bible reading, story telling, action songs, skits and prayers. |
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Table 1: Age wise distribution of the Boys in the ADF’ Asha Niketan Boys Home as on 31 March 2007. |
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| Srl. No |
Age group |
No. of boys in the home |
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5 years to 7 years |
00 |
2. |
8 years to 10 years |
09 |
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11 years to 13 years |
21 |
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14 years to 18 years |
14 |
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Above 18 years |
3 |
TOTAL |
48 |
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| The boys in the Home are all victims of social and family problems. The different categories of children as per the nature of the problems and their numbers have been tabulated in the table 2 below: |
| Table 2: Nature of problem of the boys which forced them to the Boys Home |
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Nature of problem |
No. of boys in the home |
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With parents |
6 |
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Semi-orphan |
9 |
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Orphan |
8 |
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Run away/Lost |
25 |
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TOTAL |
48 |
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| Table 3: School going children of Asha Niketan Boys Home -As on 31 March 2007 |
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Formal Education System |
Non Formal Education System |
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Class |
No of students |
SNo |
Class |
No of students |
1 |
Nursery |
0 |
1 |
1st
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5th
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13 |
2 |
K.G |
0 |
3 |
1 st ( I ) |
2 |
4 |
2 nd ( ii ) |
1 |
5 |
3 rd (iii) |
4 |
6 |
4 th ( iv ) |
3 |
7 |
5 th ( v ) |
4 |
8 |
6 th( vi ) |
10 |
9 |
7 th (vii) |
3 |
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10 |
8 th ( viii ) |
0 |
11 |
9 th (ix) |
4 |
12 |
10 th (x) |
1 |
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Total |
32 |
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Total |
13 |
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| Apart from 45 boys, One boy of home is in class XI and Two boys have filled form for evamination for Class X from National Open Schooling. One of the boy is under going practical training in shop keeping in a ration shop. |
| Table 4: Showing number of Boys in AVTTI and the courses undertaken by them |
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Name of the course |
No. of girls |
1. |
English Speaking |
8 |
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Mobile Repairing |
5 |
3. |
Computer H/W & S/W |
3 |
4. |
Electronics |
2 |
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TOTAL |
18 |
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| THE HOME FACILITATING HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE BOYS: |
Many boys have excelled in extracurricular activities like dancing, acting, painting, dialogue throwing etc. precisely because of the personality development exercises carried out by the ADF. The talents of the boyls can be witnessed during the weekly Sunday School programme wherein they display various plays, skits, dances, songs, etc. and also during various celebrations and functions organized from time to time.
The Home takes care of the medical needs of the children. Sports and games are given a special place in the daily schedule of the children in the home to develop them physically. Apart from regular training to develop skills in various vocational courses as mentioned earlier, programmes to generate and develop leadership qualities in the boys are conducted from time to time. Cultural programmes are an important feature in the activities in the Home. The boys are trained in various cultural programmes as mentioned above. In fact, the home is a ready reservoir of cultural programmes, which the children come out with during any function of the Society or of the Asha Niketan Church or any festivals. To give a feeling of change and a way out from the normal daily life, the children are taken out for picnics and excursions from time to time. |
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