Services for street Children, orphans and semi orphans:
Bangladesh is one of the poorest and most densely populated countries in the world. The country is affected by repeated natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods. Due to political unrest, the people of Bangladesh suffer further. Poverty is widespread and the number of abandoned children is high. Joty has been working in the country for quite a few years and provides support for families by offering them child-care, education, vocational training and medical care.
Demographically speaking, Bangladesh is a very young country where over 60 million people under the age of 18 live. Children are particularly affected by the general poverty levels and it is calculated that one in ten suffer from malnutrition.
Although no reliable figures exist, local experts estimate that about a third of all children do not have parental care or are at risk of losing it. Children who are at risk of losing parental care include those who are born to single mothers, or live with dislocated families in slum housing.
Although children under the age of 14 are banned by law from working, an estimated five million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are involved in child labour. Many of these work in exploitative conditions or in high risk jobs. In rural areas, children mostly labour in agriculture. As families migrate to cities in search of work, children end up living either in overcrowded squatter settlements or on the streets. They are forced to work as domestic workers, touting goods or in shops. As the children do not have the time to attend regular schooling, they end up in the vicious cycle of intergenerational poverty.
However, Joty has a total concern about the street children for which Joty runs an orphanage at Sonadanga, Khulna where vulnerable streetchildren from all over the country can get congenial home environment with full support.
The children are supported here until they can be mainstreamed. We now have 50 street children, both boys and girls, in this home. They are provided with facilities such as food, education, clothes, healthcare, etc. We are trying to make their lives easier and happy. They are regularly attending formal school and gradually building new and better lives.
Services:
• Street children are being nurtured from all over Bangladesh.
• To provide an opportunity for orphans, semi-orphans and poor children, street children to live in congenial atmosphere with parental love to pursue their education.
• To provide food, shelter, education and clothing for orphans, semi-orphans and destitute children in Home, Khulna, Bangladesh.
• To provide medical care for children living in the Home.
• To Computer training and other vocational training for self-reliant
• Teaching moral lessons and cultural lesson so that they can cope with the mainstream children.