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SEVAI CHILDREN PROJECTS Children, as `Supremely Important Assets'
SEVAI’s mission is to make a positive change to the lives of disadvantaged children and our vision is a society where each and every child and young person is supported to realise their potential. SEVAI has been helping the children for over 35 years but is still firmly focused on the future – and that means keeping pace with the latest 'social media' trends.
SEVAI works as a catalyst to change the lives of under privileged children and give them a better future. Through interventions that engage young children, as well as their parents, caregivers, and communities, SEVAI Children program ensures that young children survive and thrive—that they are physically and emotionally healthy and intellectually curious—and school readiness programs prepare them for school success.
Creche/Day-Care Scheme
SEVAI Strongly believes that that a few years of life, from conception up to the age of five or six are the most crucial period of human life, when the fastest and most critical developments take place in the human brain and body, and when the foundations of health, intellect, personality and social adjustment are laid.
To enable every individual to grow to his/her full potential and become a healthy, productive and responsible member of society, the child's basic needs at this stage must be met and failure to do so can lead to permanent and sometimes irreparable damage.
Early Childhood Development is an investment for life. SEVAI committed to meeting the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical needs of most vulnerable young children in the target area. Over the years, SEVAI experienced that Children who participate in early childhood Education, when compared with children who don't, are more likely to enroll in school, plan their families, become productive adults, and educate their own children. They are less likely to repeat a grade, drop out of school, or engage in criminal activities. The physical, mental, social and emotional needs of the young child can be met through a clean and healthy environment, adequate and appropriate nutrition, and the loving and stimulating care of adult caregivers. The various components of Day care centres/crèche and the services through which are met under this project. SEVAI’s experience in the grass roots reveal that the children of poor women are doubly deprived, by both poverty and enforced neglect by their working parents. Thus, while it is the right of every child to receive the support necessary to reach its full potential, the children of the poor are in special and dire need of such support and in danger if it is not received.
It is clear that the family alone can no longer be expected to fully provide all that is needed for the development of the child, and the State and the larger society have a big role to play in the development of the child.SEVAI team also notices that with the breaking up of joint family system and the increasing number of nuclear families, working women need support in terms of quality, substitute care for Creche and Day Care Services are not only required by working mothers but also women belonging to poor families, who require support and relief for childcare as they struggle to cope with burden of activities, within and outside the home.
Thus SEVAI intervenes in running daycare centre for children/crèches as pilot projects. Under this daycare for children/crèche program, SEVAI ensures that
Language stars Education Project
Quality Child-care/ Training given in SEVAI.
SEVAI Education Centres provide children with access to quality education, in an interactive and joyful environment.
Child Development /Child protection Project
Ensuring that child rights are met for every child is a daunting challenge for India but also a testimony to the SEVAI’s commitment to the cause of children. Integrated development of the child is taken care, in the context of family, community and culture. The vital phases of the project are Early Childhood Care and Development, Basic education, Health and sanitation, Capacity building of community based organizations and Livelihood. Restoration of normalcy in the lives of tsunami affected children and establishing sustainable community based organization to prevent discrimination, violence, abuse and neglect of child.It ensures the rights of children by promoting community groups like children groups, balpanchyat adolescent girls & youth groups and child protection committee. The project implemented in 17 Tsunami affected villages of Nagapattinam District 17 Pre-schools have also been constructed in tsunami affected regions in Karaikal and Nagapatinam.
Child RightsIn India, the post-independence era has experienced an explicit expression of the commitment of the government to the cause of children through constitutional provisions, policies, programmes and legislation. In the last decade of this century, dramatic technological developments particularly in the areas of health, nutrition, education and related spheres have opened up new vistas of opportunities for the cause of children. SEVAI had come focusing on the unique problems concerning the children in target area. They include issues related to children and work, tackling the problem of child labour, elimination of discrimination towards Girl Child, uplifting street children, identifying the special needs of children with disabilities, and providing education to every child as its Fundamental Right.
SEVAI simultaneously addresses the needs of young children, women and girls, since mothers are the principal caregivers at this stage. SEVAI provides Education in child protection for Members of SHGs in:
CARE OF THE CHILDREN/PRESCHOOL EDUCATION INSIDE TRICHY WOMEN PRISON FOR THE INMATES CHILDREN,
“Crime is the outcome of a
diseased mind and jail must have an Environment of hospital for treatment and
care” -Mahatma Gandhi
SEVAI team ‘’ two counselors and
one kindergarten teacher and a vocational educator’ regularly visits women
prison inmates and their children in women prison in Trichy. We provide basic
essentials for the women and their babies, with teaching and encouragement. Our
work with the women led to the prison authorities asking us to develop a day
care centre for the children, within the prison grounds. Thirty children are
being taken care of at this Prison.
SEVAI conducts one day care centre
for the children of the women prisoners who come with their children to the jail
with the objective of giving every child the right to survival and development
in a healthy and congenial environment, to secure for every child the right to
enjoy a happy childhood and to address the root causes that negate the health,
growth and development of children. Project provides for life and liberty of all
children, promoting high standards of health and nutrition, assuring basic needs
and security, play and leisure and all-round development of personality
including expression of creativity.
The prison authorities want to
care these children in a healthy residential environment. The prisoners are
allowed to have their children along with them unto the age of 6 years,SEVAI run
Child Care Center in the special prison for women, (central prison, Trichy),
provides basic requirements as Trunk box, Mug, Uniform set-2, casual wear-2
sets, school bag, soaps, Bedspread, Bed sheet and a pillow. SEVAI Early
childhood teacher is trained with many more choices and decisions regarding the
development of their curriculum. Play way method Teaching & Learning Materials have been used for creating Activity Based Learning for the children.
Children being given individual
attention under the Activity Based Learning initiative and are promoted to learn
at their own pace, the module is built on the methodology of individual
attention and level specific activities tailored to each child.
SEVAI Team works in providing
services in the areas of Prison environments to be conducive to the normal
growth and development of Day Care Centre Children of Women- Inmates. As many
children born in prison have never experienced normal family life up to the age
of five years, the socialization pattern of children gets severely They are unaware of the concept of a ‘home’. Boys sometimes talk in the female gender, having grown up only among women in the female ward. Sights like animals on roads frighten these children because of lack of exposure to the outside world. Children get transferred with their mothers from one prison to another. This unsettles them. Such children sometimes display violent and aggressive, or withdrawn behaviour in prison. The Day Care Centre Children of Women- Inmates project studied specific areas with respect to children’s health, education, nutrition, clothing, upbringing, socialization and other related matters, that children of women prisoners who are in jail require additional protection and they also should know what is happening outside the world.
Both mothers and children have
provided with facilities inside prison about the world and SEVAI team promoted
recreational programs like play materials and recreation materials as the
information sharing and they play and remain happy to a maximum possible. BRIDGE COURSES FOR SCHOOL DROP-OUTS
Bridge courses run by SEVAI
mainstream the school drop-outs Children EQUITABLE REHABILITATION OF TSUNAMI VICTIMS PROGRAMME
Revival after tsunami disaster
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