About NGO:

SUPPORT work with drug using street children by providing them residential facility. We have day care centres both boys and girls and youth. Here we provide medical, mid-day meal, regular medical check-up and recreational activities. Counseling is also done for them to leave street and drugs.

We also run a rehabilitation programme which include detoxification, medical care, counseling on the issue of drug addiction. In rehabilitation programme a child's behavior pattern are on served and lot of group activities are taken for transformational work.

After rehabilitation, we send them to school and if they are above age we put them into vocational training. We have number of courses in the vocational training like carpentry, welding, screen printing, housekeeping and catering. After completing training, we motivate them to work outside.

If possible, we try to re-unite them with their families.

Fund Usage:

The money will be used for the rehabilitation of street children comprising food, education, health, vocational training and overall development of the children.

Impact:

Tarun is 17 years old, he is younger of two children in the families. His mother died when he was very young. He was separated from his family under usual circumstances at the age of 7 years. While playing with his friends, he got inside the train which was waiting at the station. He panicked when the train started moving and lost his friends with whom he was playing. The train terminated at Mumbai that's how he landed in Mumbai. While he was on street, he begged in the local trains ate stale and rotten food for disposal cans. He was introduced to cigarettes other substances by street boys.

Memories about families and home erased with time and he never looked back to think where he belonged. He got in the midst of street life and drugs.

He was rescued by outreach staff and was admitted in the detoxification centre after completing rehabilitation programme he was admitted in formal school. Tarun always focused in his studies, he walked daily from the school to the centre and always scored good percentage in his exams. He maintained a steady progress in his studies. Currently he finished his 10th standard, passed with good percentages and now he was enrolled in ITI for further studies.

Page Url :
http://www.unitedwaymumbai.org/ngo173_supportstreetchildren.htm

Founded Year: 1985

Cause category: Children