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Our Current Projects : SCI launched its first operation, Project Calcutta, in 1990 with the help of the Ramkrishna Vivekananda Institute in Barackpore, near Calcutta, an organization well-known for its varied welfare programs serving destitute women and children. RVI helped pick 12 children off the streets for shelter, food, and schooling, and for vocational training that would enable these youngsters to support themselves fully by age 18. Unfortunately, our funds were not sufficient for a massive operation of this kind. Therefore, SCI has adopted a flexible, multipronged approach to the rehabilitation of destitute children, stretching its limited resources to help as many destitute children as possible. The operation of pavement schools is one type of approach towards empowering destitute children – providing basic education as tools for survival. The concept is simple – if street children will not go to school, bring the school over to them. Six makeshift schools have now sprung up in some slum areas of Calcutta where unemployed college graduates, at very modest salaries, teach some 200 children reading, writing and arithmetic. Destitute women are hired to provide assistance. Children also receive a carefully planned snack at the end of classes, aimed to provide as much nutrition as possible to these severely malnourished children. Also, whenever feasible, SCI throws its support to existing programs of other organizations that it finds are running well, instead of launching far-flung operations of our own.SCI has been providing financial support to the following organizations :
And we hope there will be more as our funds grow…we hope to throw our net far and wide… |