Child care
SCAN-INDIA is deeply concerned about the situations of children in our region. Children are tomorrow's leaders and the future of any nation is in their hands. Their personality has to be nurtured as a sacred reality, which needs care and love, so that the children may blossom into healthy adults of sound body, heart and mind. But a large number of children in our region lack basic education, health care and recreational facilities. Children drop out from schools and engage in agricultural and other hazardous jobs due to severe poverty in their families.
It is in this situation, SCAN-INDIA prioritized the issues of children as the most important area of action. As an immediate intervention, two-day care centres were started in Ramapuram and Kotla palle villages in Chittoor district with a small support from a volunteer from UK. These centres function as pre-schools with strength of around 20 children each between the age group of 1-5. The children are provided with a free nutritious meal along with the foundations for a primary education and some important lessons about health and hygiene.
Health check-ups, mothers' meetings and recreation programmes are organised at the centres, so that the children will have that childhood they would otherwise be forced to forego. At SCAN-INDIA we value the importance of childhood in shaping their dreams, aspirations and potential for the future. The above mentioned efforts will also help the families to tide over the crisis, without letting the child suffer the ill effects of poverty, deprivation and malnutrition and lay the foundation for a bright future.
We are also engaged in eradicating the exploitative forms of child labour in our region. Child labourers are identified through a baseline survey by our staff in the villages. Necessary efforts are made to rehabilitate and send them back to school by providing their basic needs.
