Old BMC Office, 2Nd Floor, Vakola Market, Nehru Road, Santacruz (East)

Old BMC Office, 2nd Floor, Vakola Market, Nehru Road, Santacruz (East), Mumbai : 400 055. India Tel No. (9122) 26652904 Fax No. (9122) 26653045 2 3

Rehabilitation programme is the foundation for all the other work of SUPPORT. Most of the activities emerged during the course of running of rehabilitation programme. It has been long way from the time we started in one room in the Central Suburbs of Mumbai, from its failure emerged a process which had flexibility and capacity to work on the issue of the child addicts.

We started our Vakola centre in 1997 with basic necessities such as food, clothing and shelter. After detoxification, children are kept in the center for six months. The rehabilitation programme is designed after considering the child's wish and an overall assessment of the child by the project staff and in this centre 100 boys are accommodated.

During this rehabilitation the most important aspects that takes place in a child’s life that he comes to a decision regarding his life. Through self- realization, he goes through a process of knowing his own defects and functioning of his life. He takes a decision whether to go home, school or vocational training. 4

New Admission

During the previous year, there were 153 children who went through our various activities through our residential rehabilitation programme. This year 123 new children from various areas have joined rehabilitation process. The break-up of the new admission is given in the table below : - New Admissions Total Addict Non-addict No. Month 1 April, 2002 03 02 01 2 May, 2002 25 25 -- 3 June, 2002 27 24 03 4 July, 2002 13 11 02 5 August, 2002 11 06 05 6 September, 2002 01 01 -- 7 October, 2002 03 03 -- 8 November, 2002 06 06 -- 9 December, 2002 19 18 01 10 January, 2003 01 01 -- 11 February, 2003 10 10 -- 12 March, 2003 04 04 -- TOTAL 123 111 12 5

Education Indoor Coaching classes

We run two types of classes, one is with the children who are already going to school and another with those children who have to be prepared for regular school admission for the next academic year. These are on reading, writing, mathematics, etc. Some of the new children who come are completely illiterate while others have had some prior experience. All showed improvement in basic reading and writing while they are very good in reciting prayers and songs. Personal hygiene is emphasized through cutting of nails and hair as well as clean dressing. Most important thing is many of these children who show progress are prepared for admission for regular school for the following year.

School Going

One of our main activities is to admit the children in the school, as education is an important step of getting these children into main stream. Those who go to school are enthusiastic and willing to work hard. But they are weak in Mathematics and English so we have to give them tuitions. There were a total of 19 children did not complete their school education as some of them did not want to study and wanted to go for different courses. Some family insisted to take their children back to the street.  Total 90 children were enrolled in the school, out of that :-  16 children passed out with distinction  42 children passed out with good marks.  4 children failed  19 children did not complete education.  9 children sent home  One boy has won Rs. 1000/= in drawing examination  Our school going have made gift items by the paper mache.  Two school going boys have made statues and won the prizes.  The school authority have selected three of our boys for scholarship exams and two boys for drawing exams. 6

 Our boys from school going section have participated in competition which is organized from training section and won the prizes.

 Mark sheet for 2002-2003 is given below :- Sr. No. Name Percentage Promoted to 1. Jagdish A. Patel 73 % 8th 2. Monu Choukidar Singh 67 % 8th 3. Harishankar B. Das Yadav 66 % 8th 4. Sayyed Husein A. Kadar 63 % 8th 5. Noor Mohd. Salim 59 % 8th 6. Sundeep J. Kacchap 81 % 7th 7. Sumit S.Shukla 67 % 7th 8. Swapnil C. Rauth 65 % 7th 9. Rajesh R. Jadhav 64 % 7th 10. Anwar H. Rajak Miya 62 % 7th 11. Sanju Prakash Kadam 60 % 7th 12. Rajesh Ramdas Shinde 58 % 7th 13. Awdesh S.Dubey 54 % 7th 14. Fairan J. Yadhav 52 % 7th 15. Nandkishor A. Gupta 49 % 7th 16. Nageshwar A. Gupta 49 % 7th 17. Nandalal A. Gupta 48 % 7th 18. Jamil Sheikh 75 % 6th 19. Kamlesh L. Gouda 70 % 6th 20. Manjunath K. Appa 68 % 6th 21. Abhishek s. Dubey 66 % 6th 22. Ashok C. Tikam 64 % 6th 23. Yusuf Ayub Abdul Sheikh 40 % 6th 24. Sachin V. Kamble 79 % 5th 25. Kamraj R. Mahato 70 % 5th 26. Raju A. Singh Maruti 69 % 5th 27. Rahul K. Padi 85 % 4th 28. Satish N. Satpute 78 % 4th 29. Ganesh B. Pavaskar 76 % 4th 30. Rakesh Narayan 72 % 4th Sr. No. Name Percentage Std. 31. Ramesh Dilip Patel 71 % 4th 32. Harisingh B Singh 69 % 4th 33. Rashid Raja Patel 69 % 4th 34. Ravi Kishan Pilli 59 % 4th 35. Rahul D Vairagar 57 % 4th 36. Vinayak R. Dadap 48 % 4th 37. Rajesh L. Pilli 45 % 4th 38. Ashok G. Vanjare 43 % 4th 39. Tafan R. Raj 84 % 3rd 40. Vijay Ramesh Magru Patel 83 % 3rd 7

41. Kadir J. Ahammed 83 % 3rd 42. Abhimanu Chotelal Gupta 83 % 3rd 43. Sajid Mohd. Sayyed 82 % 3rd 44. Raju Lala Shinde 82 % 3rd 45. Kamlesh S. Kumar 81 % 3rd 46. Vinod Milind Kadam 76 % 3rd 47. Rakesh A. Patel 69 % 3rd 48. Sachin P. Gupta 49 % 3rd 49. Jay Ganesh Rajesh More 97 % 2nd 50. Ganesh B. Bhinde 95 % 2nd 51. Sagar H. Gaikwad 91 % 2nd 52. Amin Salim Mustafha 87 % 2nd 53. Sunil Shetty Salim Khan 84 % 2nd 54. Uddesh R. Amrishpuri 82 % 2nd 55. Santosh Gore Mishra 81 % 2nd 56. Mukesh A. Rakshe 77 % 2nd 57. Mohd. Rafique Imtiyaz 65 % 2nd 58. Imran Riyaz Sheikh 65 % 2nd 59. Suresh Nathu Rastu Patel Fail 2nd 60. Sharukh Patel Fail 2nd 61. Suresh Bandelal Gupta Fail 2nd 62. Mohd. Fharukh Tamlesh Fail 3rd Development Activities

Group Sessions

The group sessions are the foundation and a very important component of the treatment plan. Group counselling is a regular activity at the centre. These group sessions include working on their addiction problems, street life, sexual abuse etc.

Some time we also have fun in the group sessions. For example, during Diwali and Christmas season, the sessions include craft work and card making were increased. The drawing sessions with the children had fun component for them. We gave different theme to the children, they had 8 tremendous capacity of drawing. One of our local funders has made greeting cards out of those drawings. Generally there has been an average of 15-20 group sessions during the month. The topics are as follows :-  Physical training sessions are included as part of group therapy.  Confrontation on their relapse behaviour  Personal goals are also taken up.  Meditation, discipline, and dignity of labour.  Preparation for vocational training.  Awareness of HIV/AIDS.  Relationships among the other boys.  Sexuality, rehabilitation and lifestyles, responsibility, drug and sex education

Individual Sessions

Individual sessions are supportive to the group sessions. Every month 10-15 individual sessions are taken. This is taken because the staff feels that the child is having adjustment problems. These sessions were taken with the school going children who have adjustment problem. Other topics on which counselling takes place includes, sexual behaviour as well as anxiety to get back home. 9

 One of the boys who was given pre test counseling on HIV last month and whose results proved to be negative decided to come us for the detox program this month. On the successful completion of his detox program he has decided to become a peer educator at Support.

 Another boy went through the day care procedure for leaving drugs and has decided to become a peer educator.

 As a result of our counseling efforts, we have thus been able to not only successfully engage these two youth to leave drugs; but they have been inspired by the meetings led by ex-users to become a peer educator.

Home Visits

There were 11 home visits made during the year. All these boys have handed over to their families peacefully. Sometimes due to wrong address given by the children there is difficulty in locating their homes. Sometimes if the parents cannot be located the nearest relative who may be an Uncle or Aunt refuse to take responsibility and may not accept the child. There are also situations when the family is grateful for getting their child back in a positive frame of mind. Some of home visits are as follows :-

 One of the interesting cases was of one boy, whose parents were dead and his uncle and aunt were keen to have him back. We handed over this boy to them.

 The other boy from Calcutta, who is fifteen-year-old who is staying with us last five years. He is studying in 6th standard. He left his home when he was a child and that is why he could not remember exact location of his home. When he showed interest to go to home and meet his parents, we decided to locate his parents through whatever landmarks he will give. Unfortunately, we could not locate his parents home, the boy was very 10

upset and disappointed. He came back to our centre and the group helped him to settled down in his new life.

Repatriation of the child

This is a very important aspect of our treatment programme. Our aim is to put the child back to his family. Before putting back the child into the family, we have joint dialogue with the child and the family. After proper discussion, the child is handed over. The following is a list of the children who have been handed over to the family.

Name of the children who have been sent back home are as follows: - No Name of the child Place Reason

1. Rakesh Umashankar Yadav Mumbai Passed out 1st and wanted to go back to home. 2. Mukesh Hall Mandal Bihar Passed out 3rd and not willing to stay in the centre. 3. Raju Rahim Mahatto Mumbai He is gone back home on his own. 4. Shashikant Wankhede Mumbai He is gone back home on his own. 5. Narottum Sharma Mumbai Passed out 5th and we sent him back home. 6. Kannu Naresh Mumbai We sent him home

7. Rakesh Acharya Mumbai Completed drug treatment and sent back home. 8. Rajesh Achrya Mumbai This boy is brother of Rakesh, after completing drug treatment, sent back home. 9. Ramesh Rao Mumbai Went back home

10. Brus Jayson Banglore Went back home

11. Raju Hit Narayan Nepal Completed drug treatment and vocational training, gone back home. 12. Prasad Vinod Gurav Mumbai His parents kept him for treatment, after finishing treatment gone back home. 13. Manish Deep Singh Mumbai His parents kept him for treatment, after finishing treatment gone back home. 14. Sopan Sudam Lohire Mumbai His mother kept him for the treatment, after finishing treatment we sent back 11

home. 15. Kishore Pandey Mumbai His mother kept him for the treatment. 16. Santosh Navnath Mumbai School going boy taken by mother kept him for the treatment.

No Name of the child Place Reason

17. Rafique Ayub Ual Mumbai His mother kept him for the treatment. After treatment we put him in the school but his mother took him home. 18. Sunny Mandvkar Mumbai His mother kept him for the treatment.

19. Rahul Gupta Mumbai This school going boy taken from us by his mother back to the street. 20. Zakir Hussain Calcutta After completing drug treatment, sent back home 21. Salim Rao Tand This child has sent back home

22. Santosh Gaikwad Poona This child has sent back home

23. Anil Aure Poona This boys has been sent back home.

24. Rajesh Khanna Lonawala This school going boy taken from us by his uncle-auntie. 25. Fahim Qureshi Mumbai This boys did not want to go to school, so we handed to his parents. 26. Vinod Madhukar Londhe Mumbai This school going boy was handed over to his grandmother. 27. Vasim Khan Mumbai This boy was in10th standard, he did not want to follow rules and regulations of the our centre, so was discharged. 28. Shanu Mohamed Khan This children were referred by BECC for 29. Imran Khan the drug treatment, after treatment we 30. Mohammed Jalal Mumbai handed over these children to the 31. Navnath Koli organisation. 32. Raju Jagtap 33. Mohammed Isaque 34. Raju Salim Sayyed Mumbai After finishing drug treatment, handed over to the family. 35. Jamil Sheikh Mumbai This school going boy handed over to his father. 36. Dipu Singh Mumbai The organisation called Sneha Sadan kept this boy for drug treatment, after finishing treatment, we handed over to 12 them. 13

Health activities The doctor visits the centre regularly. He visits once in a week and he attends the children as and when necessary. The children some times suffer from Fever, cough, skin infection etc and the doctor treats them in the centre. Incase if there is serious problem, the child is taken to the general hospital. We take boys for surgery and other diseases in KEM hospital, Sion, VN Desai, St. George hospital.

 Hygiene: Bathing is necessary everyday. Bathing, taking of medicine and brushing teeth were compulsory for each child.

 Meditation: Children were taught breathing exercises

Recreation activities It gives the children an opportunity to express their feelings in a different way. When the children go to various places, it increases their knowledge and capacity of interacting with other people. Recreation helps them to ease out the tensions and frustrations.

Picnic

In the month of May, the children were taken for five days camp to AKSA Beach, in Mumbai. The children enjoyed by playing various games like cricket, swimming and indoor and outdoor games. The staff stayed with them all the time. They had serious group sessions on choices of life, alternatives to drugs, sharing etc. with all the fun.

Cricket Competition 14

Cricket competition is arranged between two groups of school going children. Winning team have given treat of Ice cream and T-shirt. We observed that the children are more enthusiastic to win the match. 15

 To find space and move into our own premises We have been staying in the rented premises for last ten years, we have grown and expanded our work in a very big way. Our programme has been successful and so we have more and more boys and children coming to get rehabilitated and for vocational training. SUPPORT has to try desperately for its own premises. This has become necessary as we cannot accommodate the growing demands from the client group.

 Along with the old children, we are planning to take 75 new children for rehabilitation programme in the next 12 months.  75 children will be in the regular school.  30 children will be sent home.  40 children will be sent for vocational training.  30 new children will be detoxified.  We are planning to take drug awareness programme for the nearby government school.  We are planning to also conduct HIV/AIDS programme for other NGOs. 16 17

This project has grown from one screen printing activity to a holistic vocational programme. It has gone through ups and down at every step due to characteristics of the client group who come emotionally, physically and psychologically tired and abused. You not only deal with the poverty aspects of their lives but also with the distortions in character, which has been acquired due to substance abuse. It has been like handling multiple, big and small fractures all over the body. We have been able to handle this due to support and understanding of the partner.

All the courses in vocational training have been successful with this group. We realized while working with the street population who have very little education, no family background, and are into drug abuse; they have no alternatives to get back into the mainstream. All the rehabilitation work is not complete unless you supplement their lives with economics skills.

We also incorporated other aspects of their life which includes emotional well being, handling relationships in the job situation, general knowledge etc. This has become necessary as many of them found it difficult to retain the job. We also networked with public, with friends and NGOs to support us with this programme. We did have good response from people from various sections. But still we have a long way to go to compete with the commercial world outside. It is a great pleasure to see the boys who were drug users, rag pickers finishing a training and getting into more accepted work of the society. 18

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Carpentry

Welding

Admission

Overall orientation of the training

To work under senior trainees as a Helper

Cleaning machinery Helping to purchase tools

Serving equipment

To Make Small Items in groups.

To go on site work for practice

To make small items Individually 20

Referral for Job or Home. 21

Screen Printing

Admission

Overall Orientation of the training

To work under senior trainees as a Helper

Dispatching orders Buying materials

To learn printing in a group.

To do individual assignments in printing

Referral

Job Home. (We still give Food & shelter facility) (With small amount to start small business) 22

Target Group

As our focus is street children who are drug addicts, it makes our task more difficult. When they come to our centre, they are not physically, mentally and emotionally in a position to understand the process. All of them have to go through a rehabilitation process to come for the vocational training. The boys go through emotional and physical problems, which needs to be sorted out on a daily basis. At times they get fed up with the daily routine and at that time, we have to motivate them again to go through the programme.

Hiring of trainers

As an NGO, we gave advisement in local newspaper and also spread the word around that we needed three trainers for welding, carpentry and screen printing section. Our previous trainers had resigned as they could not adjust to the routine of an NGO. Even though we used to find people who are professionals with experience, they were not inclined to teach the street children nor did they have the perspective about our work. Some of the trainers who came were also addicted to tobacco and alcohol. So we could not take them. Some of them if they were good, they asked a very high salary. So we had lot of problems to select somebody appropriate. After lot of search and research, we have selected three trainers.

Work Plan

This is a very important component of the programme because without planning, we cannot do these activities. The trainers come from the different background and to understand that it is not a business set up, even though we take work from out side. So we give all the trainers a brief orientation of work of SUPPORT and familiarizing them with the clients and the treatment of the 23 drug addicts. They were then involved in making a work plan accordingly to the need of the project. While including the trainers in the plan, they were given a clear message that the responsibility of delivering results depended on them. The work plan includes training schedule of each section. 24

Daily Schedule

Timings Schedule 06.30 am Get up 06.30 am – 09.00 am Bathing 09.00 am – 10.00 am Breakfast 10.00 am – 01.30 pm Training 01.30 pm – 02.30 pm Lunch break 02.30 pm – 06.00 pm Training continues 06.00 pm – 07.00 pm Bathing Few boys takes bath in the evening due to shortage of water. 07.00 pm – 08.00 pm Free Time Playing indoor games, reading, etc. 08.00 pm – 09.00 pm Dinner 09.00 pm – 10.30 pm Watching Television 10.30 pm Light off

This schedule is not valid for Sunday. On Sunday, they only watch TV, do outings, playing cricket, badminton, wash their clothes, etc.

Space to Work

As SUPPORT does not have its own place, it has to hire a rental place to conduct the training programme for the welding section. We had to shift the welding section from our previous place (VT) to the suburbs. This place is also becoming very congested as the boys have to work and also live there. All the cooking and sleeping takes place in the same premises. At times there is no space to dry clothes. Here we need to buy water to supplement what comes from Municipal Corporation. The boys have accommodated knowing that this is a temporary phase as they are there only for training.

We have another space, in the heart of the city (Dadar) which is a premises given by the Municipal Corporation. This place has lot of restriction as we cannot cook the food there nor is there any water connection. So we buy water every week worth Rs. 1600/= A small place is rented 1 ½ kmtrs away where the boys have to cook and bring the food in containers to the 25 centre. Space is the biggest constrain that we have today. The rented out space, we pay Rs. 18,000/= per month excluding water and electricity charges. 26

Group Sessions

This is a foundation to our objective of behaviour change. This is the time when as a team you handle all their emotional and other related problems. In the group sessions there is sharing on their problems. Here the group identifies aberrations in behaviour, which has to be worked out to improve. The group sessions is also taken on HIV/AIDS, drug addiction, general knowledge etc. Individual Sessions

Individual sessions are taken with the boys to deal with their personal problems. Here the focus is on their past history and their life on the street. What has been their involvement with regard to relationship, police, girls etc. Health

The boys who come to our centre for training programme suffer from various skin infections, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and some time they are also infected with HIV. As far as possible, we try to maintain cleanliness in a small place. We also have a doctor visiting every week to do health check ups for each and every boy who is staying there. Recreation

Due to shortage of place, the recreation activity suffers the most. We do have T.V, Music system, some indoor games, but we feel it is not sufficient. The boys from vocational training have taken 27 to AKSA Beach, Malad where they enjoyed their days. The boys suggested that they could be taken somewhere else next year.

The details of the training are as follows :- 28

Screen Printing

We have seen in our past experience that some of the boys liked to do short-term training thinking they will get jobs easily. But we have to deal with their mental patterns because while living on the street the process of life was different. They do not have confidence to deal with problems of the main stream.

We have to develop skills in the boys in basic screen printing and other related skills to include positive making, exposing etc during the period of the contract. After having group discussion and looking at their artistic inclination the boys were selected for this training. The screen- printing training is in demand at our day care centres. The boys can take out some time to complete the course, as they have to go for daily earning.

 25 new boys were selected and the others who had experience earlier support them. All these boys were given residential facility.  45 days screen printing training taken in Dadar day care centre in which 35 non- residential boys were trained.  The big workshop was taken for two months for 50 boys in which some of boys were readmitted. This workshop was taken in VT day care centre and it was non-residential programme.  Due to our good network one organization called “The Anchorage Shelter Trust” had sent their five boys for screen printing training. Stipend of the boys was handed over to their staff.  YUVA’ is another organisation referred their seven boys to do this short term training. The boys were given basic training in the non-residential programme. 29

Screen-printing is the cheapest training. The tools that we use for this training are also not expensive but we have to buy stationary in large quantities for the trainees to practice.

Name of the Tools Quantity Round Printing Machine 1 Paper Cutting Machine 1 Screen 8 Stopper 20 Dry Machine 2 Colours Various Coating 2 Expose Box 2 30

Production

SANKALP which is an organisation, which works with injecting drug users gave us big orders for screen printing. We have printed for them large quantities of office stationery like brochures, banners, vouchers, medical formats, envelops, stickers, calendars, letter heads, folders, etc. The other network called CCVC (Forum of NGO working with street children.) has given us to print their brochures. They presented these brochures in the meeting, the members appreciated our efforts.

The most achievable aspects is that we have got orders to make staff visiting cards from The ABN AMRO Bank and Indian Bank.

Production Quantity Visiting cards Ongoing Greeting Cards 500 Certificates 200 Office Materials 1000 each materials Banner 50 Stickers 1000 Calendars 275 Folders 1000 Vouchers 5000 Brochures 500 Foot prints 100 Wall piece 100 31

Carpentry Training

To develop skilled boys in basic carpentry and other related skills to include marketing and costing during the period. The old boys completed training during the months of June and July, 2002. The new selection process included giving them basic aptitude tests to ascertain their level of interest and inclination. The boys were also given simple jobs as part of the animators training to judge their motivation so that we could be sure that the investment made in them would not be wasted. There was very good response from our rehabilitation programme. At the moment the training continues with 20 trainees. Tools

Name of the Tools Quantity Name of the Tools Quantity Hand Saw 7 Marble Blade 1 Key Hole Saw 1 Leval Bottle 2 Jack Plane 6 Bar Clamp 3 Farmer Chisel 17 Rip Saw 1 Mortises Chisel 8 Round Cut Saw 1 Marking Gauge 2 Mejor Tape 2 Try Square 4 Nail Punch 1 B. Square 1 Saw Set 2 Stone 5 Bench Hook 1 Claw Hammer 1 Hand Drillmachine 1 Cross Plain Hammer 7 Gimlet 1 Pinner 4 Hamar Wooden 5 Screw Driver 10 Drillmachine Mallet 3 Planer Cum Cutter 1 G. Clamp 4 Cutter Machine Blade 6 Rsps 3 Gig Saw Machine 1 Hack Saw 2 Plane Blade 4 Chisels Handle 7 Cavar 3 Saw Handle 3 Back Iron 2 32

Production

Production Quantity Production Quantity Chairs 2 Tea poy 1 Small Table 3 Mirror Frame 1 Dustbin 5 Box To Keep Clothes 2 Rack 15 Letter Box 1 Locker 3 Bathroom Door 5 Deck Box 3 Wooden Hammer 2 Cassette Box 1 Wooden Ganpati 2 Pencil Box 6 Wooden Door 5 Black Board 3 Wooden Bat 5 Poster Frame 10 Screen Printing Expose box 1 Work Bench 1 Showcase Box 1 Cabin Box Office 1 Trolley 2 Photo Frame 10 Wooden Handle 10 TV Cupboard 3 Jig Saw Machine Table 1 Shoes Box 2 Screen Printing Frame 2 Candle stand 6 Light Board 15 Coaster 12 Wooden Tool Box 5 Bed 2 Sliding door 2 Wall unit 4 Safety door 2 33

Welding Training

The boys who were interested in welding and fabrication were selected for this training. The response here was even greater than in that of the carpentry segment and therefore 18 trainees have been included for this training. There are others who are interested in enrolling for this programme and we hope to include them in the next year. The people started recognizing us in the field of vocational training. We have got various contracts to do welding work. Tools

Name Of The Tools Quantity Name Of The Tools Quantity Hand Press Machine 1 Welding Helmet 2 Single Phase Welding Machine 2 Sea Clop 6 Ceizer Machine 1 Small Hammer 2 Hand Grinder Machine 1 Fyber Hammer 2 Hand Drill Machine 1 Hacksaw Frame 2 Bench Grinder Machine 1 Swrew Pana 2 Bench Drill Machine 1 Swrew Driver Set 4 Single Phase Ear Codoset Ma 1 Fix Pana 7 Banch Vice 1 Flot File 1 Drillmachine Vice 1 Off Right File 3 Welding Cable Set 2 Round File 3 White Specs 2 Square File 2 Label Block 2 Barner 2 Drill Panset 1 Monkey Hammer 1 Mejor Mejor Tape 3 Nos Hammer 2 Welding Machine 1 Pisal Hammer 1 Welding Cable Set 1 Scale 3 Hand Drill Machine 5 Black Specs 2 Bench Grinder Machine 1 C Camp 1 Seizer Machine 2 Rubber Buffer Dish 1 Bench Vice 1 34

Production

Production Quantity Production Quantity Candle stand 6 Iron door 4 Kitchen articles 2 Box Grill 4 Big Trunk rack 2 Window 10 Vessels Rack 1 Channel gate 6 Cloth cutting table 1 Shoe rack 1 Cupboard-Godrej Model 4 Garden Compound 1 Stool 3 Old Cupboard made again 2 Cloth cutting Table 1 Ladder 2 Computer Box 5 TV Cabinet for all cerntres 1 Small table 6 Office Partisan 1 Expose Box 2 35

Peer Educator

training

Peer educators are the foundation of the work that we are doing because they have gone through the experience of addiction and living on the street as well as have worked out a life away from drugs. Through our outreach, street corner meetings and individual counselling, we are able to identify some of the street children as potential leaders. They have certain command in the group, the other members obeyed them. We wanted to use them as role model and peer educators so we use different strategy and use them on the street as volunteers. They started helping us in the outreach and in the Day Care activities. We started giving them small incentives by way of food, clothing etc. We explained regarding the risk behaviour and the alternatives available. Some of them started participating in our programmes came to the rehabilitation centre to give up their drug habit.

After their detoxification and rehabilitation programme completed, we started training them up in HIV/AIDS and basic work in an organisation. Some of the senior boys were also taught basic administration like recordings of the programmes, writing of voucher, keeping account etc. This 36 year we have trained new ten boys as peer educator, some of them also did vocational training and few went back home to live an independent life.

This year we have also trained three girls as Peer Educators from our girls project. They are trained basically to take responsibility in centre and medical work. 37

Picnic Medical Developing a Bank Balance

Shelter Vocational Job Training A

Stipend Holistic Programme

Food & nutrition

Stipend

While they are in training, stipend is given to the boys for their future. After finishing training, they can use these savings for their future. They even go to their native place and settle down. We have long term training like welding and carpentry, so we gave Rs. 600/= per month as an incentive to each of the boys.

Stipend acts as an incentive to many of the children to stay back and finish the course. We give money only to those boys who finish the course. If they leave in between, they get the money after a year. The boys feel very good when they get certificates and also the money to take back.

Personal Bank Balances

The concept of having individual bank accounts for the boys came after going through various experiences in money matters. We had a thorough discussion with the staff regarding this matter. We decided to put their individual money in their personal accounts but still keep a control by having joint account with the staff.

The boys get a stipend and this amount is kept in the bank till they finish their training. All these boys have an account in CKP Co-op. Bank and Indian Bank. We have good rapport with these banks. The boys use this money for their personal use and also they also save some money for their future. Some of the boys who are working, they also have their savings with these banks. When the boys saw their money growing, they got more interested save money in various schemes.

 One of our boy, Narayan who earned Rs. 25,000/= and went back home. His brother took him back to native place.  Santosh Jamdar is a boy who saved Rs. 25,000/= and settled down with his friends.  The other boy called Dharmesh Patel saved Rs 35,000/= and also kept Rs. 25,000/= in government scheme for six years. 39

 A total Rs. 2,50,521/= is saved by the boys through job and stipend. 40

Personal Bank Balances Of The Boys From Vocational Training TILL MARCH, 2003

SR. No Name Account No Amount in Rs. 1. Subrmaniam 3658 11,861/= 2. Sunil Kamrjiya 3694 11,005/= 3. Santosh Jaiswal 3134 5,366/= 4. Shivkumar 3424 6,570/= 5. Ijaj Khan 3186 3,429/= 6. Manoj Pillai 3017 745/= 7. Ramesh Amburlekar 3135 9,957/= 8. Mohd. Rafique 3302 21,970/= 9. Sunish Chavan 3671 1,556/= 10. Shyam Shivsat 3243 1,769/= 11. Pavan Modi 3495 8,587/= 12. Krishna Kadar 3441 10,897/= 13. Keshav Haldar 3969 3,544/= 14. Dinesh Mandal 4017 4,701/= 15. Sandeep Vaidya 3921 5,212/= 16. Vijaykumar Thapa 3993 1,300/= 17. Bikaskumar shrivastav 3989 1,300/= 18. Pankajkumar Joshi 3987 3,134/= 19. Amir Mulla Khan 4020 712/= 20. Mohd. Aftab Khan 4008 2,524/= 21. Ritesh Soni 3990 3,124/= 22. Bablu Rajmohan Yadav 3971 3,134/= 23. Abdul Aslam Ali Khan 4015 2,524/= 24. Prashant Kumar Singh 3981 3,138/= 25. Abdul Mohd. Ansari 4018 2,524/= 26. Mushtak Ahmed 3792 3,406/= 27. Ritesh Vilas Maru 4013 2,524/= 28. Gulzar Ansari 4012 4,312/=

SR. No Name Account No Amount Rs. 29. Mahesh Rani Kumar 3798 600/= 30. Salim Mosup Khan 3980 1,300/= 31. Raju Janardhan Gavit 3973 1,300/= 32. Anand Kumar Kshatriya 4009 2,524/= 33. Amar Pawar 3793 10,854/= 34. Vishnu Ohara 3231 1,109/= 35. Santosh Jamadar 3232 4,691/= 36. Basaya S 3675 5,423/= 37. Ajay Sharma 3131 12,762/= 38. Suresh K. Yadav 3974 1,300/= 41

39. Jahid Alam 3967 1,300/= 40. Nagraj Hivale 3796 2,400/= 41. Rakesh Singh 4021 700/= 42. Mahesh Kumar 3798 600/= 43. Kishor Kumar Harpal 3804 600/= 44. Nirajkumar Rawat 3805 600/= 45. Nagraj C. Hivale 3796 600/= 46. Nirajkumar Rawat 3805 3,374/= 47. Alimkhan Ahmad Khan 3794 600/= 48. Gajanan Sopan Jadhav 3797 600/= 49. Lav-kush Kumar Singh 3802 600/= 50. Kishor Kumar Harpal 3804 600/= 51. Alimkhan Ahmed Khan 3794 1,200/= 52. Imran Yusuf Khan (N.O) 3806 100/= 53. Rajesh Ashok Singh (N.O.) 3790 100/= 54. Vijay Kumar Thakur 3485 4,091/= 55. Raju Nayak 4086 1,900/= 56. Sundeep P. Gaikwad 4037 3,000/= 57. Krishana R. Doshi 4045 4,220/= 58. Vijay S. Ingole 4039 1,300/= 59. Chandrakant G. Chavan 4016 700/= 42

Sr.No. Name Account No Amount in Rs. 60. Buffy J.Roy 4014 700/= 61. Ramesh shyamraj 4011 700/= 62. Bikaskumar Tamang 3992 1,300/= 63. Ramesh A. Bhetwal 3985 1,300/= 64. Shankar R.Duble 3983 1,300/= 65. Ranjeet G. Raut 4019 700/= 66. Sallauddin M. Ansari 3977 1,300/= 67. Mulla A. Sheikh 3968 1,300/= 68. Ashfaq Mohd. Hussain 3988 1,300/= 69. Rakesh Yadav 3991 1,300/= 70. Devashish B.Pal 3970 1,300/= 71. Deerajkumar Thakur 3986 1,300/= 72. Rupesh Kumar Tandon 3972 1,300/= 73. Mushtak Ahmed 3792 600/= 74. Mugindam Loganadan (N.O) 3795 100/= 75. Ranjan Nayak 3791 1,200/= 76. Lav-Kush Kumar Singh 3802 3,676/= 77. Kishor Gopi Kanojia 4038 3,600/= 78. Bikas J. Pal (N.O) 3984 100/= 79. Hosla J.Kavhar 4034 3,600/= 80. Kamari S.Sanghayya 4036 4,200/= 81. Sunil Vishwakarma 3789 600/= 82. Amar S. Pawar 3793 600/= 83. Kishore T. Patel 3975 1,300/= 84. Raju Mane 3408 3,378/= 85. Oblesha (Closed) 3437 138/= 86. Vijay Thakur (N.O) 3485 191/= 87. Mahesh Gupta 3445 265/= Total 2,50,521/= 43

 To find space and move into our own premises We have been staying in the rented premises for last ten years, we have grown and expanded our work in a very big way. Our programme has been successful and so we have more and more boys and children coming to get rehabilitated and for vocational training. We have to refuse many boys due to financial constraints but more so for space. The rented premises do not serve our objective in long run because the place is not as per our requirement. Usually this place is in the slum area, which has very few water and toilet facilities. It is difficult to find space near Mumbai city where both school and hospital of the government is nearby. As we cannot afford to treat our client in private facilities. SUPPORT has to try desperately for its own premises. This has become necessary, as we cannot accommodate the growing demands from the client group. We are already paying a lot of money as rent for the various centres.

 To start a Barber course for some of the boys who would be interested.  Another 50 boys will be trained into Carpentry and welding section.  Another 50 boys will be trained into screen printing section.  More outside Contracts will be taken.  We found peer educators doing excellent jobs if trained. As we have enough experience of training peer educators. This 44 45

It has been three years that we have been running girls project. During the course of three years, we have gone through happiness, anxiety, tension, realization etc. We also observed that the girls project which is away 120 kmtrs has its own limitations, the distance made it difficult for the girls to run away easily. The premises are big enough and the girls have lot of space compared to Mumbai centre.

One of the biggest limitations is that during crisis it is not easy to give help as they are far away. If there is a medical problem, we have to bring the girls to Mumbai as there are no big general hospital. After rehabilitation it is difficult to find a job nearby. So we have to buy an extra space to live in Mumbai and do the job.

Most of the girls from the first batch are ready to go out and work in different settings. We have located a place in suburbs of Mumbai where group of girls can stay together and go to work. This will be second phase of the girls' project. 46

The girls live in unnatural environment comprising of the following groups of people and are influenced by them. They contribute significantly in her life, which is negative.

Commercial Sex workers

Drug Peddlers

Rag Pickers A c Anti Social o Elements n Railway and s Local Police Railway

Railway staff, Porters, Sweepers, Hotel Street youth Workers 47

Activities Shelter

The residential center is situated at Lonawala, Kanehphate. The center provides shelter to 40 girls. The life in shelter helps to have discipline in their life and they learn group living compared to the unruly life on the streets. Group living is a new concept to many girls, as they do not remember their family. The life in the shelter helps them to learn to care for each other and be part of a larger society.

Education

During the counseling sessions younger girls expressed their wish to go to school like normal children and they want to go for a professional education as and when they grow up. SUPPORT is sending 10 children to Municipal School. Apart from regular schooling, special coaching is given to the girls at the center. The martk sheet of the 2002-2003 is as follows :-

Name Promoted to Percentage Seema Johny 3rd 81.04 % Mani Guru 3rd 63.09 % Bhagyalaxmi Kaleymalli 2nd 84.00 % Nirmala Ganesh Naidu 2nd 84.00 % Gaytri Bhosale 2nd 90.00 % Shanti Muluraj 1st 88.05 % Rani Mane 1st 88.05 %

Food and Nutrition 48

SUPPORT is taking special care in food and nutrition aspect of the girls. Girls are provided with three meals at the centre with other food supplements like egg and milk.. 49

Vocational training

Various vocational training such as stitching, handcrafts, catering, gardening are conducted for girls who are unable to attend the regular school. The training like, Stitching classes inside the centre, Gardening classes, Cooking classes, Peer educators training, Pre school training etc.

Medical check-up

Support organizes periodic medical check up for the girls at centre. The treatment is continued for the girls who need it.

Recreation

The girls participated in Camps / Picnics, they also like to play indoor games like carrom board, chess etc. We have taken cable facility in television for them. It was great fun for them to participate in dance, music competition. Our girls always appreciated and won the prizes in the competition.

Repatriation of the child 50

Six girls were sent back home during the year. Name of the girl Place Reason Nagma Sheikh Mumbai Her parents took their child back. Selma Sheikh Mumbai Taken by her parents (sister of Nagma) Parvati Mumbai Handed over to her brother Bharati Mumbai Taken by her mother. Puja Mumbai Taken by her mother. Sunita Bhanuse Solapur She and her boy friend joined rehabilitation together after completing two years they got married and settle in Solapur. 51 52

Children who are abandoned, orphaned or have run away from their homes are common features of every urban centre in all the developing countries.

Although the problem of substance use among urban children below 18 years of age is widely acknowledged and recognized, there is a definite lack of treatment facilities specially adopted to serve them. We have started detoxification programme from September, 2002. A Number of detoxification programmes have been conducted with gender segregation. The separate place is taken on rental basis for this special programme.

The common addictions have been found to be: Solution (sniffing Glue), Chasing and Smoking Brown sugar, Tobacco, Gutka, Beedi, Gambling and Cigarette. 53

The Need

The need for detoxification for substance using children came due to lack of appropriate services and follow up. All drug taking activity is a high-risk behaviour related to HIV, which needs urgent intervention. The present program is proposed for day care and detoxification facilities using innovative methodologies for substance using children in Mumbai. It is exhibit a visibly high level of substance use and substance using children.

Establishment

Any premise in the city of Mumbai that is taken on rent requires a large sum as a deposit. As we limited money for rent, we are restricted to finding those spots that can fit into our limited availability of funds.

Two places returned our initial deposits when they found out that the center was going to be for street children. We were finally able to find a place within a community in Santacruz. We have also found that we had to be low-key, as this is a low middle class community that holds many biases against our client group. Limitations

- Street girls and boys are overpower a single staff on the street. - The girls take drugs at one point in Mumbai and go and spend their time in another place. So the staff has to travel from one place to another to locate one girl. - While showing STI and drugs flash cards during outreach on the street, the public reaction is hostile because at times they misunderstand our work. - The boys who work with catering, get food and money easily so they are least motivated to give up their drugs and street life. - The boys gets casual sex and freedom of living on the street so they are not interested to leave street. 54

Batches

The following detoxification were done during the period Months No. of Patients September 10 October 10 November 18 December 18 January 17 February 8 Girls March 16 Total 97 Activities Counselling

Counselling is a daily activity. Individuals in need of attention are given quality time. Young boys with sores given an understanding of how they can take care of themselves with good hygiene. A total of 22 children including 2 girls were counselled for STIs and the importance of completing the treatment.

2 boys were counselled for general treatment in a government hospital. It is important that they co-operate with the treatment process as they will not always get staff who will relate to them in the way they are accepted in Support.

Pre-test counselling was done with 5 girls and 2 boys. Of these 4 girls turned out to be HIV positive. Post test and supportive counselling is being done for all of them. The one girl who turned out to be negative will once more be tested after 6 months. All children interested in picking up a skill are counselled for the vocational training like welding, carpentry and screen painting. 55

Nutrition

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and tea (3 times a day) are provided to all. Milk is given to all children once a day. From time to time, the children expressed a desire to eat something that they were craving for; simple things such as bhel puri, chocolates, etc ; which was made available and was the cause of retaining some in treatment.

Health service

All field workers are now provided with First Aid kits for their fieldwork. The Day Care Centres continue to provide first aid to all. Good rapport through networking with Government Hospitals has also helped gain access for general health care. Two patients were referred for admission to V. N. Desai hospital.

There was more need for treatment in the girls’ batch All the girls were involved in unprotected sex. They were therefore, investigated for HIV after proper pre test counselling..

One patient was referred to V.N. Desai hospital to Gynecological and Obstetrics department for irregular menses and abdominal swelling. She was diagnosed with an ovarian cyst on the right side.

Life Skill Education

With the help of a facilitator, the children were taught to express themselves through art. Different aspects of their personality were analyzed as they expressed their likes and dislikes. What finally came through was the pain of drug use and the freedom of street life. This relationship and the resentment with themselves were the main findings. They were taught of ways to deal with this resentment and some of them began to understand the meaning of rehabilitation. 56

Workshops

 During the month of December a two days in house training was conducted with the staff involved in the project. Roles and Responsibilities and detox programme planning were the main subjects of the training.

 A sensitization workshop was conducted with the staff of a Municipal hospital. This workshop was done by the peer educators and the staff. The need was due to the fact that when the street children go to the hospitals, they do not get sensitive treatment and care.

 Training for female peer educators was conducted on 22-23 January, 2003. Expectations from a detox programme and sexuality issues were the main subjects of the programme.

 Training with staff of the Rehabilitation center was conducted on 24-25 January 2003. Teamwork and documentation were the main subjects of the programme.

 A placement student with Humara Club had organized a 3-hour workshop on Sexuality for the staff and peer educators of Support.

 On 25th February 2003, a workshop exploring different aspects of drug addiction among street children was held. Staff from 16 street children organizations in the city attended. A mix 18 participants comprising of coordinators, para professional and peer educators were at the workshop. 57 58

Our two day care centres are at VT and Dadar.. The centre has provisions for supplies relating to personal hygiene such as washing and toilet soap, access to barbers and bathing facility.

The day care centre provide a safe, and non-judgmental environment for street children away from the hazards of substance using street life. The day care centre operates for a minimum of eight hours a day and its provide outreach services, client centred individual and group counselling services, general medication, referrals and health education sessions.

This is the place where the children who are drug users are given couselling, medical help so that they are motivated to give up their drugs and change to positive living. The focus of the day care is to build relationship and get them out of street life. 59

Snacks Health check- ups

Television

Sessions Counselling Motivation

for Hospitalization Detoxificati First-Aid on Referral Programme Group Meetings

Bathing 60

Outreach & Street CornerMeetings

Our staff have worked with street children in their communities in the various areas. We provided education, counselling and support to the most needy children and made these services accessible to children who are unable to reach any other existing services.

Outreach meetings, are very important to make contact with street children in different contact points like railway stations, market places, religious places, etc. In addition regular outreach services have encouraged referrals of substance using street children from existing NGOs to the day care centre. The outreach has also carried out in the form of community meetings where specific issues concerning substance use, detoxification, relapse prevention and HIV/AIDS have addressed. Our outreach services were quite extensive during this period and was part of the learn for being forced to begin detoxification at an earlier date.

Limitations

- Limitations of the space in the day care creates lot of tension for the staff to provide bathing facilities for both boys and girls. - While counselling the girls, the boys interfere and counter counselling is done with the girls by these boys. - We do not have our own night facilities for boys and girls and being on the substance it is difficult to refer them to the other centres. 61

 Addict and non addict regularly come to the day centres.  The children between 8 – 12 are least interested in group sessions on drugs and HIV.  The expectations of these children are they make their life easy on the street so that they can live on the street. They want the organisation to erase their difficulties on the street but do not want to leave street.  They also have high expectations that the organisation should provide their travelling, food to come the day care centre.  Facing police in cases for which we are not involved.  We have found number of solution addict from our group in the day care.  Multiple drug use is seen between 16-20 years like charas, alcohol and brown sugar.  Street girls are involved in drugs and sex work  The women on the street who are in the age group of 25-30 have young daughters aged between 10-12. These girls have very high risk are getting into street pattern.  The girls who are involved in drugs have boy friends who are also into drug addiction and casual sex. These girls are the most difficult one to be motivated for leaving street.  It was noticed that many of the girls had been working as sex workers for some time. A detox program for them spanning 20 days seemed too short to allow them to make decisions about lifestyle.  In cases of girls with HIV and who already have a child, rehabilitation become very difficult. Who will accept her along with her child? We have found that the girls are unwilling to be separated from their child even in the interim period of time required to complete physical and emotional recovery from their addiction. Rehabilitation for such a group of girls requires a new approach as well as needs financial outlay to cover the mother and the child.  It was also observed that the IDU patient was more restless and bordering on violence. Therefore it was decided to have a separate batch for such children with an allowance to smoke beedis. 62 63

 SPACE is a main gap which interrupts our progress for a long time. Many street children wanted to join us but we cannot take them due to lack of space. It hurts the client as well as our staff when we cannot help a child on the street. All our spaces are small, compared to the number of children that we address.  FUNDING is second gap for the organisation, with enough funding we can expand our activities.  We are not able to compete with the SALARY and other benefits outside. So after giving all the input, the staff does not stay back. The expectations of the staff also increase with the projects.  The Vocational Training project is the most EXPENSIVE project. Here we need to buy equipments & materials, tools as and when necessary. We require large number of materials to practice, which is expensive.  FOOD is also very costly expensive and to feed 200 children daily is a big expense.  The boys from vocational training have improved their WORK QUALITY during the year.  Personal Bank savings of the boys have increased during the year.  Detoxification is a very TOUGH PROJECT, which we have successfully conducted.  We have realized, the time is the greatest factor, the more time given to the child to stay back in the centre, the better for his rehabilitation.  Group meetings is a very essential tool for behaviour change. 64