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SUPPORT A VILLAGE TO PROTECT ITS CHILDREN

Your Support can enliven Community Based Child Protection in TEN Villages of West Bengal within SIX months

What India and West Bengal as well is witnessing amid this covid-19 pandemic and disruption of life that especially the childhood stand threatened.  Schools remain closed, adults without jobs and many have returned to their home with no hope of getting back to the same place and occupation, children face an unprecedented experience of messed up ecology within the family.

Six months’ target to enliven the Community Based Protection for children

When the children are destined to nowhere, families are clueless about the child’s safety, security and development, push them to situations of abuse and exploitation, and finally the government child protection mechanism remains as namesake only; situation demands that the community and village should come forward and protect their own children.

This situation is assumed by SPAN, an NGO being engaged in the protection of child rights in urban and rural West Bengal for last thirty years, as volatile. It feels the need of the hour is to reach out to these communities and engage with them to lodge in them a confidence through action.

SPAN identified Ten Extremely Vulnerable Villages, five from each district. These villages are from the AMPHAN-hit Sundarbans areas (South 24 Parganas) where in addition to pandemic the super cyclone devastated people’s life and livelihood and the sick or closed tea gardens in Dooars region of Jalpaiguri where the predicament of the labour families are unbearable.

List of selected villages from South 24 Parganas districts of West Bengal, India.

Durgagobindapur, Dakshin Gopalnagar and Mahedranagar Villages under Gopal Nagar Gram Panchayet of Pathar Pratima Block. Kalidanga and Mathagaran villages of Basanti Gram Panchayet of Basanti Block.

List of selected Tea Estates - Villages from Jalpaiguri districts of West Bengal, India.

Samsing, Batabari, Dangi and Kilkot Tea Estates of Matiali Block and Nagrakata Tea Estate of Nagrakata Block.

SPAN capacitates and mentors local YOUTH LEADERS to lead the process of child protection

Local Youth leaders have come voluntarily by choice and there are some leaders from the neighbourhood who came loudly to join as volunteers contributing to the cause. SPAN has recognised them as its natural ally and is capacitated as CHILD RIGHTS DEFENDERS leading the villages and activates the Village Level Child Protection Committee and the system through following process.

  • Regular tracking of each and every child of the village
  • Regular Educational sessions with selected vulnerable children of the village to keep their track and to keep them connected with education during the closure of schools.
  • Youth leaders will present the result and findings of the tracking of the children in the VLCPC (Village Level Child Protection Committee) meetings, to the VLCPC members.
  • Youth Leaders will push and lead VLCPC to take remedial actions based on the findings of child tracking.
  • Youth Leaders will lead VLCPC in organising regular public awareness programme against child labour, child marriage, trafficking and other issue of child protection.

Changes Expected after Six Months

  • Minimum Hundred children who are most vulnerable will be connected with education.
  • Village level Child Protection Committee (VLCPC) start meeting in every month.
  • 60 percent of the child labourer of any village will leave labour sector and get connected with education or training.
  • Not a single child marriage happen and every girls of 14-18 years old will be connected with education.
  • Complain on every missing child lodged with police and pursued by VLCPC.
  • VLCPC create a system to register the outside movement of children of the village (with or without parents) to keep track of children who migrates and keep a control on this.

SPAN NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT TO GO AHEAD WITH THIS PROGRAMME.

YOUR SUPPORT MAY SAVE A CHILD FROM BEING TRAFFICKED, ABUSED OR BECOME A CHILD LABOUR.

  • Donate Rs. 2,50,000 per month for six months to ensure protection of all children in ten villages.
  • Donate Rs. 25,000 per month for six months to ensure protection of all children in one village.
  • Donate Rs. 10,000 per month for six months to ensure protection for 40 children.
  • Donate Rs. 2, 500 per month for six months to ensure protection for 10 children.
  • Donate Rs. 1,000 per month for six months to ensure protection for 4 children.
  • Donate Rs. 500 per month for six months to ensure protection for 2 children.

Your support will be used to provide the followings:

  • Tracking of children and providing Protection Support to vulnerable children by Youth Leaders and Village Level Child Protection Committee - 60 percent of your donation,
  • Capacity Building of Youth Leaders - 16 percent of your donation,
  • Educational Support to 100 children (most vulnerable) in every selected village - 16 percent of your donation,
  • Village Level Awareness Programme against child labour, child marriage, trafficking, child abuse - 4 percent of your donation
  • Administrative Costs - 4 percent of your donation.

ALL DONATIONS TO SPAN ARE TAX-EXEMPTED UNEDR SECTION 80G OF INCOME TAX ACT, 1961 OF GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

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