Street Angels Camp

Target Group for these camps: Helping Children and their mother/sister from the street (mostly refugees) of India to get basic education, vocational and hygienic training etc. Daily more than 100 families receive support at our different centers around. Project Back ground: India having uncountable numbers of street and slum dwellers. There are thousands of poor refugees coming every year from nearby countries and from different small towns and villages to the big cities and most of these families are living in a very poorly condition at slums or on street corners like insects. Normal societies are so busy to deal with their personal daily problems, so have little time for these unfortunate people. With every such family Grownup girls and married women (mother of the children) always have to face the problem in their daily life. Often these families bring their children to help them in begging, household work, rag picking activities, even some girls been forcibly thrown to the dark life of prostitution. So it is really a shame of the so called civilized societies. We have got our few projects for these unfortunate street children at the different locations of big cities. Now there are opportunities available to help and support these unfortunate girls and mothers of the street children in and around Kolkata (ccu) city. Our target to bring smile on ever mother too with their children. Kolkata, the city of joy was known before as Calcutta since the colonial time. This ancient city was used to be the capital of British colonial period. This city has full of heart; people are basically belonging to the middle class. There are also rich and poor people all around. City Kolkata is known for its busy traffic, huge population, warm welcome and poverty around the street corners! It is a great place to visit for every tourist coming to India. Work & Activities :- Most important target of the project is to bring smile among these children and provide confidence and moral support to their mother .Volunteer would use different way of informal education technique to present a unique and attractive way of education programs for these kids .Most of these kids speaks local Bengali /Hindi language but they are very smart and intelligent.so teaching them with the support of local coordinator would not be so difficult ,just little bit of patience and involvement can solve this problem easily. All volunteers would go through orientation on arrival and two local language session during this camp. There would also be a workshop every evening when volunteers would prepare the next day lesson plan of action. For mothers informal vocational training and basic English teaching would be helpful. Volunteers would also help local coordinator in other activities like giving shower food distribution, organizing drama, storytelling and entertainment games for the children. Whole camp would be run under the supervision of very experienced local project coordinator. Saturday and Sunday would be free days when volunteers can take rest or tour around the city or nearby places. More over if anyone get a chance to live with the local host family then that brings extra bonus to any traveler. It helps to learn the culture, tradition, language while staying within the normal people of the society. Living on any hotel can never give any traveler such wide scope to know the society and communities as a whole. SMILE always tries to give international volunteers a big scope to know about the local communities and understand the family environment. Smile (ngo) had started their activities since 2003!
Example Daily Schedule:
Wake up early morning: 6 am
Breakfast: 6:30 am (required to prepared by own)
Project hour: As per project in charge.
Lunch at 1:30-2 pm
late afternoon: 3 - 5pm, workshop time for volunteers
Dinner: 7 pm (volunteers required help themselves in serving, washing)
After 8 pm exit door would be closed. No one allowed to go out or come in the accommodation after 8 pm everyday including weekends.
9:30 bed time
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** Please remember that program schedule or project site can be changed or altered by the Project In-charge if required and all volunteers are requested to cooperate with our local members and partners. All schedule should be followed and mandatory for everyone to participate and contribute **