Aim:
a) To find out the Anganwadi & Balwadi near these construction sites.
b) To check the feasibility of enrollment for the children of the migrant construction workers.
Findings:
a) Anganwadi is available in Gandhi Nagar, withing 500 meters from these construction sites. This Anganwadi is being run in Gandhi Nagar - Shiv Sena sahkha. After discussing with families and people around the Anganwadi, I found out that there's no schedule and timing of this Anganwadi.
b) Availability of Primary School: A municipality primary school is present in both Marathi & Hindi medium (till 7th standard) within less than 1 Km of distance.
I interacted with Principal of the school and mentioned about the children at the construction sites and feasibility of their enrollment in new coming session from June. Her response was affirmative. She added that the only document needed for the enrollment is Birth Certificate.
I tried finding out condition of different initiatives like MidDay meal, free books presently running in schools. The Midday meal for all the municipality schools is cooked at Vartak Nagar municipality school premises and delivered to all schools.
Next Step:
a) To check availability of Birth Certificate of children.
b) Plan a enrollment drive in June for these Children.
Enrollment drive wud really be helpful. However some prep work (to make d kids really intrested to study) for school in next month wud be helpful.
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous, thanks for you comments :). I completely agree with you. Interacting with these children and their families and getting them prepared for the enrollment is needed. In addition to this, we need to find whether these families have Birth Certificates for their children. These all steps need to be executed in next month.
ReplyDeleteGuess slim chances tat parent wud be having d certificates so another huge task in store for u all. Gud to know tat interaction with the kids n families is in agenda. Gr8 going :)
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