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HOPE’s 12 month programme is to help vulnerable street children who are not receiving adequate support or education from the government's Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS); set up to provide food, preschool education and primary healthcare to children from under-served communities.
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Situation
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) have been inadequately funded for years. Pre-school education, nutrition & access to pre-school for slum dwelling communities is seriously lacking. Staff allocated to ICDS are not trained in, nor practise in a child centred way. Poor physical infrastructure & facilities in ICDS buildings, mean that health & hygiene is severely compromised or non-existent. The majority of slum dwelling families don't send their children to the ICDS for these reasons.
Solution
HOPE is working with 18 ICDS centres and their staff, to ensure that the centres infrastructural needs are met, (inc. water & sanitation provision), and that buildings are rendered child centred and safe. HOPE works with ICDS staff to facilitate and train them in child centred methodologies, conducts health, education and nutrition awareness programmes in slum communities where ICDS centres are located. HOPE is engaged with local government authorities who are responsible for the ICDS centres.
