Protection & Welfare

Protection of Children and Women

Children Activity

Protection and welfare for safeguarding the children and women from any kind of atrocities, abuses, tortures, and ensuring their safety, security and dignity are always on the priority list of Vikas Bharti Bishunpur since its inception. The organisation is working to ensure not only their due rights and entitlements but also to make them capable of availing all the benefits of Government programmes and to rehabilitate them through positive participation.

A) Child Home Vikas Bharti

Started in 2013 with the purpose to rehabilitate children and provide a safe environment, education, health, and social development. The homes are functioning in Dumka, Sahebganj, and Gumla districts, with a focus on holistic child development.

B) Nari Niketan, Gumla

A scheme by the Women, Child Development, and Social Security Department, Govt. of Jharkhand, in collaboration with Vikas Bharti, started in 2016. It supports socially despised and helpless women through part-time residential care, counseling, legal aid, and vocational training for personality and economic development.

C) Child Line, Gumla

The Child line open platform is a program under which the correspondents of Vikas Bharti Bishunpur are visiting any of the school locating within the area and there they have to arrange awareness meeting with the children and share wth them the information about the Child Line along with information related to dial 1098. Here they insist and encourage the children to share their problems with them without any hesitation and also to provide the appropriate solution of the problem and the other related issues arises.

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Children Home

To rehabilitate girl children in need, care and protection, missing children, orphans, run-away children and victims of trafficking, a Children Home named ‘Gyanashray’ having a capacity of 50 beds was established at Gumla in May 2013.

The centre provides formal education, vocational and life skills, and counseling for children and their parents. 40 children have been discharged and restored in their families. 12 children are in formal school (classes 5 to 9), 22 in non-formal education, and 1 in pre-school. They also engage in dance, music, fine arts, yoga, physical activities, and moral education.

Objectives:

  • ✔ To provide suitable environment for children to enjoy their childhood
  • ✔ To fulfill basic needs of children
  • ✔ To restore them in their family
  • ✔ Attach them to regular/NIOS Education
  • ✔ Rehabilitate them through proper placement
  • ✔ To provide Vocational Training

Naari Niketan, Gumla (for Protection and Rehabilitation of Women)

To provide rescue, relief, and rehabilitation services to needy women in distress—especially from vulnerable communities suffering from atrocities or violence—a women’s shelter named Naari Niketan was started by Vikas Bharti Bishunpur in Gumla, Jharkhand in March 2016. It offers protection, care, and support to rebuild their lives with dignity.

Objectives:

  • ✔ To provide primary need of shelter, food and clothing.
  • ✔ To provide emotional support and counseling.
  • ✔ To arrange specific clinical, legal and other support.
  • ✔ To provide helpline or other facilities
  • ✔ To rehabilitate them socially and economically through education, awareness, skill upgradation and personality development through behavioral training etc.
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Childline

Under the child protection scheme, Childline has been established at Ghaghra in 2014 in Gumla District. Its coverage area is Ghaghra, Bishunpur, and Palkot blocks. Its main objective is to develop a child-friendly system to keep vigil and track the children who suffer from various forms of social abuses like trafficking, early marriage, victim of man-made or natural disasters, begging, engaged in hazardous jobs, drug addiction, drug peddling, domestic and social violence, rescue of bonded child labourers, etc. It is also rendering free legal aid, counseling. It helps in finding out missing children, identifying the culprits engaged in trafficking and also providing temporary shelter to the rescued children and rehabilitate them.

After Care Home, Dumka

An Aftercare Home was set up by Vikas Bharti Bishunpur at Dhadhakiya, Dumka in March 2016 with the financial support of the Social Welfare Department, Government of Jharkhand. Purpose of setting up of this Home was to provide aftercare to the children released/discharged from Children’s Homes/Special Homes and/or those who have reached 18 years and above age. This has capacity to accommodate 50 children. This home assists the youths to resolve the critical problems in transitional phase of their lives and thereby enable them to shape their bright future.

Objectives

  • ✔ To provide opportunity for rehabilitation of the children of 18-21 years age group
  • ✔ Academic Support
  • ✔ Vocational Training
  • ✔ Counseling support and Life Skill education
  • ✔ Sensitize communities for acceptance of these Children

Shaktiman Ashram (for Divyang)

Residential Center (Shaktiman Ashram) for Children with Special Needs:

This center is providing free Academic support, Vocational and Life Skill Training to the Divyang Children of Gumla, Lohardaga, and Latehar district. The infrastructure of this center is Divyang friendly and it promotes inclusive education for overall development of the children. Children of this center are also enrolled in the formal schools.