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Unmesh Child Protection Centre

Unmesh Child Protection Centre. 06/25/2010. Geographical Focus. Some quick stats. Total geographical areas – 10,491,69 km. No of District – 4 Total population – 31,91,168 Total female population – 16,36,138 Total female population – 15,55,030 Education No of J.B. School – 2076

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Unmesh Child Protection Centre

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  1. Unmesh Child Protection Centre 06/25/2010

  2. Geographical Focus

  3. Some quick stats • Total geographical areas – 10,491,69 km. • No of District – 4 • Total population – 31,91,168 • Total female population – 16,36,138 • Total female population – 15,55,030 • Education • No of J.B. School – 2076 • No of S.B. School – 452 • No of High School – 409 • No of H.S (+2) School – 242 • Primary Middle High • Drop out rate % 50.60% 65.12% 76.95% • SC drop-out rate (%) % 44.93% 62.00% 76.29% • ST drop-out rate (%) 63.59% 77.92% 86.72%  • No of University – 1 • No of General college – 14 • No. of Engineering college – 1 ; No of Medical College --2 • Literacy Rate • Total literacy rate – 73.66% • Male literacy rate – 81.47% ; Female literacy rate – 65.41% • Status of Women • Total Female population – 15,55,030 • Infant mortality rate per ‘000’ population – 39 • Maternal mortality rate – 4.0 • Health • No of Hospital – 19 • No of PHC/rural hospital – 73 • No of sub-centre – 653 • No of blood bank – 5 • % of household having safe drinking water – 52.69% • Birth rate per ‘000’ population – 16.1 • Death rate per ‘000’ population – 5.6

  4. Situation in Tripura • Physical situation: • West Tripura District is the mostly populated district of Tripura. • partly hilly. • Operational area is mixed urban and rural areas of the west district with a long international boundary with Bangladesh. • Social situation: • 2,66,960 tribals and 9,50,672 non-tribals (source: Census report 2001). • communal disturbances from 1980 -2000 concern. • Economic situation: • main livelihood option is agriculture • Other sources include service (both Govt. and non- Govt.), small business and daily labor. • Average per capita monthly income is Rs.385/-(source: Situational Analysis of Child Violence in Tripura- by VHAT in 2005). • Due to poverty the number of child labor is alarming.

  5. VHAT • VHAT - Voluntary Health Association of Tripura • Formed in 1988 by some social and science activists • VHAI, New Delhi was the main inspiration • Has 75 member organizations/members throughout Tripura Vision and Mission To Improve both preventive and curative health service for the people, to promote the environment and elementary education, rehabilitation of the socially ignored population, gender empowerment, implementation of child rights and thus to promote the health status of Tripura state.

  6. Their work so far… • 1988: School Health Program in different schools to train teachers in preventive health issues • 1989 – 1998: • Initiated activities among 60,000 Chakma refugees residing in 6 camps in South Tripura, with support from OXFAM (India) • Trainings on health and environmental issues with support from EZE (Germany) • Started direct integrated rural development projects with support from MISEREOR, IGSSS, EZE, Asha for Education(USA) • Worked with Central Govt to implement • Reproductive and Child Health Program • IEC scheme to popularize Indian System of Medicines and Non Formal Education for the dropout children • CHILDLINE Agartala

  7. Current Activities

  8. Funding received • Ministry of Women and Child Development (Govt. of India) • Tripura State Tribal Welfare Department • CBM (Germany) • Association for India’s Development(Boise Chapter) • Sir Dorabji Tata Trust • Caritas India- New Delhi.

  9. UnmeshChild Protection Centre • Unmeshis a part /extension of AnweshaChild Protection Centre which was started in April 2005. • Function is to rescue, rehabilitation, reintegration and medical help for the victim children under Childline activities (nationwide 24 hr free phone emergency service for children in difficult circumstances) • ChildlineAgartala receives an average 800 calls in a month The Predominant issues As per recent(2005) survey for Situational Analysis of Child Violence in Tripura(conducted by VHAT) it is revealed that- • Child Labor • In 9% of the rural and urban poor families the children are engaged outside their family as child labor. Among the child labors the age of 37% of them is in between 7 to 12yrs. The child labors are usually not attending any school. • Child Marriage • The age at marriage of 40% of girls was below 18yrs. 34% girls were married to men who were 10 or more yrs older than these girls. • Children negligence • 10% of the married girls / women were either abandoned by their husband or left the husband’s house due to torture. Most of the children of such women are becoming street children, rag pickers, victims of dendrite addiction and not covered even by SarbaShikshaAbhijan. • Child violence • Among all child violence cases 57% physical, 16% sexual, 7% other and 20% not disclosed were there. In 60% of the cases the perpetrators were known to the child.

  10. Goals (i) To provide the shelter for the children at crisis. (ii) To promote the education of underprivileged children. (iii) To upgrade the life skill and self reliance of underprivileged children through training => Providing the childhood and facility to achieve self reliance. Beneficiaries - Marginalised, underprivileged children who need care and protection. Number of direct beneficiaries :50 children of 7-18 year age group Expected changes:

  11. At present in Anvesha… 100 children of the following category can stay at a time: • Missing child who will be sent to her/his family through a proper process • Orphan child who will be linked with government or non-government orphanage. • Child with one parent, when the parent is ill/ under treatment and nobody is there to look after the child. • Child with the one parent, who is very poor and going out for wage earning to far away place for a short period. • Child from BPL family from remote areas comes to Agartala for treatment and has no place to stay at Agartala. • Working street children / children of CSW. • Children rejected by parents (mostly by father). • Abandoned child. • The age limit is 6 to 18 years. At present all the children staying in the centre are going to nearby government school and also are getting education in the project centre. Other facilities for the children are- a) Free food and nutrition b) Recreation facility c) Cultural activity d) Awareness training on health, environment and life skill development.

  12. Timeline for the project

  13. Sustainability • During the three years of support, the organization will try to get local and external support/patronization for this endeavor • Currently options to donate Rs.790 per child per month • Currently get donations for around 5 to 10 children per month • Work towards generating enough interest and trust to increase this number to all children • Some people donate one time amounts like Rs.1000/2000 • ONGC recently committed to Rs.82000 for one year towards all expenses • Recently opened a bank account to track these finances

  14. Budget Request Budget for one year:

  15. Project Evaluation and Follow-up • Evaluated half yearly on the basis of the following indicators and following up the time line of the activities

  16. Recent AID Funding History

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