Objectives

Objectives

  •   Conduct awareness campaigns in a phased manner, enabling the participation of the local community.
  •   To hold survey in all the slums/wards to ascertain the whereabouts of children, especially those missing and maintain their database.
  •   Rescue Operations for children in need of care and protection.
  •   Reaching out to all Out of school children in the city of Guwahati. Mainstream them back into formal schools and follow them up through tuition classes.
  •   Form Child Protection Committees in all the wards of Guwahti for protection and promotion of rights of children.
  •   Capacity Building program for project staff cluster wise and Project core team to develop the database of Children and share it with the National Level Don Bosco Forum for Young at Risk.
  •   Inculcate “Child Rights Culture” among children through participation in Children Parliaments.
  •   To initiate ‘Guwahati Forum for Child Rights’ [GFCR] with all the civil society groups to create an environment of child safety in the city of Guwahati.

The Key Features

  •   Tuition classes: are held for all mainstreamed children of CFG, studying in class 1-5, for 3 hours 5 days a week.
  •   Concept of Peer teaching: The concept is based on the unique idea: “To teach is to learn twice” as it definitely enhances learning intakes of both the parties. 74 children across 36 CFG Centers are involved in Peer Teaching under the supervision of the Social Educators.
  •   ASER: Annual Status of Education Report is a unique concept taken up by the CFG Centers. 828 CFG children have been assessed for ASER in 2022 for improving their Fundamental Literacy and Numeracy (FLN)
  •   MIS: The Database is maintained and updated from time to time for all CFG Children (2561).
  •   Children Parliament: CFG has the unique process of democratically electing Children Parliament members who work as Ministers under the Prime Minister-taking care of different ministries such as Education, Information, Finance, Cultural, and Cleanliness etc. They conduct CP Meetings 2 times a month.
  •   Center Management Committees: Every CFG Center has a Center Management Committee which is responsible for child rights protection in the respective areas. The committees include community people, school teachers of the area, health workers, and club members of the area along with prominent person of the particular locality.
  •   The Rescue Wing: of CFG has identified 938 Children in distress. 261 children under various vulnerable situations have been rescued and restored so far.
  •   Child Protection Committees: One step ahead of Center Management Committee is the formation of Child Protection Committees. CFG is now moving towards upgrading CMCs to CPCs involving the duty bearers. It is a community based monitoring system in creating safety net for our children in the grass-root level.
  •   MoU with 7 Colleges and Universities were signed in 2021 for mobilization of Volunteers for the purpose of taking up Tuition classes for CFG children.

Way Forward

  •   Tuition classes: are held for all mainstreamed children of CFG, studying in class 1-5, for 3 hours 5 days a week.
  •   Concept of Peer teaching: The concept is based on the unique idea: “To teach is to learn twice” as it definitely enhances learning intakes of both the parties. 74 children across 36 CFG Centers are involved in Peer Teaching under the supervision of the Social Educators.
  •   ASER: Annual Status of Education Report is a unique concept taken up by the CFG Centers. 828 CFG children have been assessed for ASER in 2022 for improving their Fundamental Literacy and Numeracy (FLN)
  •   MIS: The Database is maintained and updated from time to time for all CFG Children (2561).
  •   Children Parliament: CFG has the unique process of democratically electing Children Parliament members who work as Ministers under the Prime Minister-taking care of different ministries such as Education, Information, Finance, Cultural, and Cleanliness etc. They conduct CP Meetings 2 times a month.
  •   Center Management Committees: Every CFG Center has a Center Management Committee which is responsible for child rights protection in the respective areas. The committees include community people, school teachers of the area, health workers, and club members of the area along with prominent person of the particular locality.