AMAIDI’s newest partner: Kiruba Seva Trust (before its registration known as Kiruba Community Center) an organization hosting two shelter homes for streetchildren in Puducherry and a special school. Starting in 2003 with a tailoring unit for needy women in the local community in Muthialpet close to Puducherry Town, it took up the first six street children in May 2003, coming from some of the 157 families living on the streets in Puducherry. 

Street children are the children of pavement dwellers, 

beggars, gypsies and children who are ran away from home, previously accommodated by the pavement dwellers. The families that live on the streets of Puducherry are mostly broken, unsteady or at least quarrelsome.  Their children become unwanted, are uncared for, are either rejected or  neglected, which drives them to go for begging, steeling, prostitution, gang-formation, criminal activities and addiction. 

Sr. Clara Aloysius is holds the position of chief functionary. She has completed an MA in Sociology and a two years’ diploma course in child development and nutrition with a long history of service in village- and women development.

Entrance of Kiruba Seva Trust’s streetchildren’s shelter

AMAIDI’s newest partner: Kiruba Seva Trust (before its registration known as Kiruba Community Center) an organization hosting two shelter homes for streetchildren in Puducherry and a special school. Starting in 2003 with a tailoring unit for needy women in the local community in Muthialpet close to Puducherry Town, it took up the first six street children in May 2003, coming from some of the 157 families living on the streets in Puducherry. 

Street children are the children of pavement dwellers, 

beggars, gypsies and children who are ran away from home, previously accommodated by the pavement dwellers. The families that live on the streets of Puducherry are mostly broken, unsteady or at least quarrelsome.  Their children become unwanted, are uncared for, are either rejected or  neglected, which drives them to go for begging, steeling, prostitution, gang-formation, criminal activities and addiction. 

Sr. Clara Aloysius is holds the position of chief functionary. She has completed an MA in Sociology and a two years’ diploma course in child development and nutrition with a long history of service in village- and women development.

http://www.kirubalaya.org

For sure a valuable experience is waiting for her.

Street children in Delhi

Where is the Indian Susan Boyle? She must be found on the streets of India .. It cannot be otherwise. There are talented housewifes in Scotland going undiscovered for 47 years before this happens .. I must be ablve to find the Indian Boyle before another 47 years … and lift her up to a status of stardom, a role model for other street kids that if you’ve got what it takes to become a star, you can become one ..

Today Guy from Israel, a very sympathetic young chap, gave a juggler show in Santhosha Nanban, on Sunday evening from 5-7 pm. The 50 odd children in the home enjoyed it like anything. Philip – founder of SN – said: “You may send me volunteers like Guy for at least 2-3 weeks, so that the children can learn from him”. With so little means you can make so many happy.

Wonderful.

Warming up the little ones, ready for the day at Santhosha Nanban

In Tille Maestry Street, close to ‘Old Busstand’ there is a home for street- and working children, called ‘Santhosha Nanban’. Some 50 children, half of them girls, who were previously living on the pavement with their families in Puducherry or who have run away from home (sometimes from other States), are being assisted to create a new life of their own.

There’s a boys’ and a girls’ hostel and an Open School, where children learn to enjoy education again. Ultimately they will all go to regular school again or join a vocational training program so that they will be able to earn their livelihood and make a living of their own later in life.

Philip Lebois and his Tamil wife Manglorine, started the home some 15 years ago. They shifted once to another location in Puducherry town, had a creche in the former red-light area in ‘Kan Doctor Thoottam’ in Puducherry (behind Ratna Theathre) and are now hosting a ‘mobile tuition center’ for some 25 streetchildren who still live with their caretakers or parents on the Puducherry pavements.

At present a Dutch volunteer is planning to come and work at SN and make a website for them, so that the world at large can witness the good work being done and support them.

I’d be happy to hear about more iniatives like Santhosha Nanban in other cities and publish them here.

Founder Manglorine sits with her kids in the main hall

Thank you,

Ever imagined NOT to have four walls around you on demand? Ever imagines ALWAYS to be surrounded by people during the day and by dogs – and people you don’t want to meet – at night? Ever imagined there are people who NOT BY CHOICE live on the street? Who have no other place to go?

This new blog wants to focus on them. Their needs. Their stories. Their world.

Welcome to the world of pavement dwellers, living on the street in India.