Reaching the Unreachable in the Poorest Parts of the World

Street Children Rehabilitation Project, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India

The Project: The Street Children Rehabilitation Project is located in Guntur District in Andhra Pradesh, India.

The Railway Children: Guntur is the major railway junction and the third biggest for street children after Vijayawada and Hyderabad, in Andhra Pradesh. At present there are no humanitarian organizations assisting there, and so the children have no emergency shelter and no educational programme. Many of these children want to make a permanent break from a life of begging on the railway platform and being exploited. So far they have no chance. However, a local society named HEARTS (Health, Education, Awareness, Rehabilitation and treatment Society) is working with GHF providing technical assistance and partial funding for the project.

The Objectives of the Project:

1. To provide shelter to these children (numbering from 70 to 80) who at present live on the railway junction, begging and being exploited.
2. To provide a programme of education and training, tailored to their interests and potential
3. To help these children to lead a dignified life through training for skilled work.

GHF support will cover partial funding and technical assistance for this project until 2013.

The total amount needed for 2008 - 2009: CHF 28'000.

Note: The project's recurring costs are borne by the local institutions.

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