Residental Care

While pursuing its mission, PCVC came across many children who hailed from critical backgrounds and had to work for survival. Some of these children were with families, but the parents either refused to take care of them or they were from single parent families in dire economic conditions. Some were orphans and destitute seen on platforms, signals and communities and had no place to go.

Thus arose an urgent requirement to address the needs of these children who had no proper roof over their head and in need of care and protection: the concept of Residential Shelter came into being, with the aim to provide children from critical backgrounds with opportunities for holistic development.

Residential shelters are secure places where children receive care and attention, have the opportunity to go back to school, and are given their basic right to childhood.

We discover and enhance the different talents of each child in the shelter home and thus pave the path for their proper rehabilitation and repatriation.

Achievements

Since the beginning of the Program, more than 4000 children have been covered,including children who resided for a transit period before being repatriated back with their families.

• 900 children enrolled in schools till last year. All these children were out of school and working when they first arrived at the shelter.
• 5 children appearing for their 10th Std exams in Andhra Pradesh and Mumbai this year. 1 boy appearing for his Std 12th exam in Mumbai.
• The children from the shelter of Bihar won the District level Kabbadi Championship (Traditional Indian Sport) in 2007. Some children have also been shortlisted for representing the State at National Level.
• 4 children from the shelter of Andhra Pradesh and 1 child from Gujarat played in a District Level Volley-ball Competition last year.
• Special groups of a talented bunch of children from the Mumbai shelter performed in different Music and Dance competitions and won many awards.
• Our experience has shown that a majority of these children have undergone major attitudinal and behavioural changes.