NIRMAL JYOTHI
Care, Support and Educational Services for Children in
Beggary and Ragpicking
INDIAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT, NAGPUR, INDIA
 A registered not for profit organization
 Established in 2003 to enable the vulnerable
and weaker sections of the society
 Special focus on children in difficult situation
towards empowerment and dignified human
life
 Headquartered in Nagpur, Maharashtra State
 Promotes child rights especially of survival,
protection, development and participation
 Care and support centre for children on the street which
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provides basic facilities and mainstreams them through
constant care, acceptance and special supportive
environment
A centre at Gittikadan for children in beggary and
ragpicking aimed at breaking the chain of beggary and
mainstreaming children
Non formal education and capacity building of children in
Hazaripahad slum locality
Care and support and capacity building centre for children
in ragpicking at Tulsi Nagar adjacent to dumping yard
Child focused community development program in Betul
district in the state of Madhya Pradesh
Shelter/Food/Clothing/Counselling/Medical at Yuvajyothi
550
Repatriation
16
Education (including drop outs)
96
Vocational Training
188
Job Placement
26
Referral
55
Educational Sponsorship
10
Kindergarten
265
Bridge School
43
Library
100
Summer camp
1328
Bal Manch
120
Life Skill Education
592
Savings and Bank Accounts
80
Children’s Day/Bal Mela
1208
 Economic compulsions and poverty force the children on to
the street to earn a living and support their families
 They take up various economic activities, such as vending,
shoe shining, begging, and rag picking
 Certain communities that are involved traditionally into
begging and rag picking pass on the tradition to their
children and push them on to the street from infancy itself
 They are into a vicious cycle and they have not been
provided an opportunity for different way of living and
children enabled towards growing up with dignity and self
worth
 Mangarwadi, a tribe whose traditional occupation is
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begging reside at Gittikadhan
Their children are into begging and rag picking as an
economical activity along with their family members
They are deprived of their childhood and basic rights to
education and dignified living
ICID has initiated work among these children and manages
a care and support centre
The centre has been providing basic facilities, recreational,
hygiene and non formal educational services to these
children with the local support
170 children have been accessing these services and 65 of
them are involved in small saving through an initiative
named ‘Mera Galla’ and bank accounts have been opened
for them in Corporation Bank
The project proposes to reach out to these children on the
street and break the chain of beggary and rag picking by
strengthening the initial work with regular educational and
vocational trainings
 The total number of families: 57
 Number of children in the age category of 3-5 are 21
 Number of children in the age category of 6 – 14 are
108
 Number of children in the age category of 15 – 18 are 61
 Among these male are 111 and female are 79
 Among these children161 of them have never been to a
school and 29 of them are enrolled in school but
irregular or dropped out
Goal of the Project:
Improved sense of self worth and empowerment
towards dignified living
Objectives:
 To enable increased number of children to opt out
from begging and rag picking and mainstream them
through education
 To build creative ability in
children in difficult
situation and enable them towards healthy and
hygienic living
 To increase the sense of community, cohesiveness
and saving habits among the children
 Sensitization and motivation of the Community members – parents
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and significant others on the importance of child rights
Recreational and Hygiene facilities – for expression of emotions
and ideas creatively and to be clean and healthy
Montessori Pre- school for children from age of 3 to 5 and 6 to 8
years would provide a stimulating, child-centered environment for
learning along with supplementary nutrition
Bridge school – for drop out children for rejoining formal education
Vocational training – Tailoring and embroidery for adolescent girls
Library – for all children to build their knowledge bank
Children’s Bank and Self Help Group – piggy bank for children and
for group feeling/cohesiveness
Life skill education – to make the children assertive and help them
take appropriate decisions in their lives
Sr.
No
I
Line Items
Non Recurring
Books for the library
Unit Cost
Rs. 15,000
Sub total
II
TOTAL
15,000.00
15,000.00
Programme Expenses
Nutritional support to children at Montessori Rs. 3000 x 12 months
36,000.00
Toiletry articles for hygiene programme
Rs.1000 x 12 months
36,000.00
Annual day sports and cultural programmes
Rs.10000 x 3 years
10,000.00
Salary to Programme Coordinator (25 % of
the time)
Montessori teacher
Rs. 3000 x 12 months
36,000.00
Rs.5000 x 12 months
60,000.00
Tailoring and craft tutor
Rs.5000 x 12 months
60,000.00
Sub total
238,000.00
III
Administrative Expenses
Stationary, printing and
telephone
water and electricity
Rs.1000 x 12 months
12,000.00
Rs.1000 x 12 months
12,000.00
Local conveyance
Rs.500 x 12 months
6,000.00
Sub total
Garnd Total
30,000.00
283,000.00
Note: The organization will contribute to the project with the space as well as tailoring machines
Thank you