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4 17th Annual Report CONTENTS 1. Founder’s note – A dream is coming true… 1 2. SATHI – Vision & Objectives 2 3. The year in a nutshell 3

4. Reaching out to children on Railway Platforms 4 SATHI 5. Shelter Care 12 6. Counselling, Address tracing & Restorations 16 7. Engaging with Govt. Children Homes 21 8. Home Orientation Camps 31 9. Reunion Events – Moments of Joy & Tears 40 10. Follow-up and Post Home Placement Support 42 12. Documentation Practices 45 13. Studies and Analyses 48 14. Advocacy & Networking – Efforts & Events 55 15. Collaborations 60 16. SATHI in Media 62 17. Governance and Administration 64 18. Funding Partners 69 19. Looking Ahead – Outlook for 2016-17 71

1 17th Annual Report 1. FOUNDER’S NOTE – A DREAM IS COMING TRUE…

I have great happiness and pride to share with you all that the year 2015-16 has been an extremely positive year for the kind of children that we have been working for. The issue of children who have left home for various reasons and landed on railway platforms across is a large and complex one. Fortunately, there are simple and SATHI replicable solutions to address some of their key issues. What is notable and positive about the year gone by is that the issue has caught the attention of the government departments and people who matter. Even a few years ago, having a mechanism to help children who arrive on all major railway platforms across India was a dream. With the initiatives of the Ministries of Women and Child Development and Railways, that dream is close to becoming a reality. The government has taken the first step and started Railway Childline in 20 locations across India, and this number is set to increase. It is indeed a huge blessing for children arriving on railway platforms. A large number of them will stand to benefit and reunite with their families soon. The Ministries, Departments, Foundation and the numerous partner NGOs deserve full credit for their work. SATHI would continue to engage with them and contribute with its efforts and experience. One of the prominent highlights of the year was receiving the National Award for Child Welfare from the Honourable President of India. The award is a tribute to more hundreds of people who have been part of SATHI and partnered with the organization over the years. Without their hard work in the field and the support of multiple organizations and excellent individuals within and outside the government system, it would not have been possible to help such a large number of children, and make the organization worthy of the award. It has also been a year since I have withdrawn from formal positions within the organization or on its Board and have been playing the role of an advisor. This has provided me opportunities to engage with the team on qualitative issues and their capacity building, on individual cases and conceptualizing studies on pertinent questions that the organization can take up. In the coming year, we will use the huge and current data base of thousands of children to generate evidences to answer such questions. I look forward to a promising year ahead in this regard.

I thank one and all for all the support we have received.

With best wishes Pramod Kulkarni Founder, SATHI Bangalore | 31.05.2016

1 17th Annual Report 2. SATHI – VISION & OBJECTIVES

Vision A safe, secure and nurturing environment for lost, runaway and separated children to grow holisti- cally with self-confidence, self-worth and dignity.

Objectives SATHI . To rescue, protect and assist runaway or separated children from railway platforms and restore them in a safe and secure environment conducive to their growth, preferably with their families in a timely manner so as to minimize their exposure to risks including abuse, violence, addictions, crime and the vagaries of street life; . To explore the possibilities of a qualitatively better environment, free from abuse for children staying in government and non-government institutions within their families and rehabilitate them accordingly; . To offer psychological and emotional support to children who are victims of substance abuse, habituated to running away from home or are displaying deviant behaviour and explore avenues for mainstreaming with society; . To work with the State & Civil Society and advocate towards enabling an effective child protection system in India that is responsive and sympathetic to the interests of the child; . To build knowledge and evidences regarding issues of missing or runaway children including reasons, risks, rehabilitation measures and related qualitative aspects to evolve good practices in the domain of child protection.

2 17th Annual Report 3. THE YEAR IN A NUTSHELL

6220 Children rescued from 14 railway stations 3932 Rescued children reunited with families 606 Children staying in 20 Govt. homes reunited with parents

257 Children participated in 10 home-orientation camps SATHI 4694 Total number of children reunited with families 11 New locations where SATHI started work including 3 new states – Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Chhattisgarh 98% Increase in the organization budget in comparison to previous financial year National Award for Child Welfare SATHI was conferred the National Award for Child Welfare 2014 by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Govt. of India. The award was received by Mr. Pramod Kulkarni from the Honourable President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee on 14th November 2015.

The award is a proud milestone for the organization, which has maintained a singular focus for over two decades through which we have had the opportunity of reaching out to more than 50,000 children. However, the achievements of SATHI could not have materialized without the support of innumerable supporters and contributors which includes over 300 field staff, donors, partner NGOs, officials in the Ministry / Department of Railways as well as Women and Child Development, Honourable Judges and many individuals who have guided the organization in the past and continue to do so. We look at this moment as an opportunity to thank everybody who has supported us and feel that we now have an added responsibility to continue contributing to the sector. There is more work to do before every child can safely go back to a home. Thank you.

3 17th Annual Report 4. REACHING OUT TO CHILDREN ON RAILWAY PLATFORMS

Brothers rescued from trafficking trap of ‘fake saint’ When two children accompanied by a ‘saint’ were spotted by SATHI staff at Kanpur railway station, they suspected that this was a case of trafficking. They immediately contacted the boys

and learned that the children were being taken to Agra by the ‘saint’ for the purpose of begging. SATHI The two children, Mandeep (9) and Vikram (11) (names changed) were brothers hailing from Farukhkhabad, U.P. According to the children, their parents worked as labourers and neither of them was enrolled in school. They left home one day and came to Farukhkhabad station, where they started begging for their bread. After four to five days, a man dressed up as a saint met them and allured them towards seeing the city. Accompanying him, the boys reached Kanpur railway station. With the help of GRP, the three of them were brought to Railway Police station. The suspected trafficker was taken into police custody, while the boys were sent to SATHI shelter for care and protection. The children were sent to the Govt. Home for Boys the next day on the advice of Child Welfare Committee. SATHI staff continued interacting with the children and the boys’ parents were traced. The children were handed over to their father on 10th August’15. When a follow up was done, we came to know that both children are studying and staying at home. GRP’s initiative was important in this rescue operation. The incident even received local media coverage. Through a recent follow up, we came to know that presently both the children are studying.

Highlights of 2015-16 In 2015-16, SATHI in collaboration with NGOs having similar objectives rescued more than 6000 children from 16 railway stations in 9 states across India. Sl. No Location Total children rescued Collaboration NGOs

Andhra Pradesh Vishakhapatnam 153 - Vijayawada 231 SKCV Children’s Trust Bihar Patna 254 - Delhi New Delhi , 1664 Prayas (Childline) Old Delhi

Karnataka Yeshwanthpur 569 - Maharashtra Pune 407 - Berhampur 202 SOCH (Society for Bhubaneswar Children) 468

Telangana Hyderabad 107 Asritha

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Uttar Pradesh Kanpur 348 Mughalsarai 720 Varanasi 369 -

Gorakhpur 117 Allahabad 58

West Bengal Kolkata 495 CINI (Child in Need SATHI Institute) Total 6144*

*This figure includes children helped by SATHI, NGOs working in collaboration with us as well as GRP, RPF and others. The number of children helped by GRP and RPF staff constitutes 3% of the total children referred to SATHI. About 2% of the children helped includes children referred by others such as auto / taxi drivers, porters, vendors, general public, etc. (Details given in Annexure # 1) Break-up: Rescue of children

Children helped by GRP / RPF staff

Ashwini, a 10-year-old boy, was found by GRP at Mughalsarai railway platform. Ashwini told them he had come to Mirzapur railway station to visit, where a man made him board the train and reached Mughalsarai station. The GRP referred the child to SATHI. It was found that child was specially-abled; staff faced difficulty in comprehending whatever the child explained. After many attempts, bits of information about him could be attain about his home district Mirzapur. With the help of police his address could be traced and the child was restored with his family through CWC. RPF constable Ravi Kumar saw a child named Taarikh sitting alone crying on the New Delhi Railway station. He approached the child, consoled him and took him in confidence, before handing over the child to SATHI. During a recent telephonic follow up done, came to know that she is happily staying with her family and going to school.

5 17th Annual Report Rescue operation of Trafficked children: As per the direction of CWC, on 30th July, 2015, we supported a rescue operation with RPF/ GRP. During the operation 13 children were rescued, in which 10 children were provided our shelter as per order of CWC. Next day 5 children were re-integrated to their families by order of

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Note: In this year we have covered 14 railway stations in comparison with 10 stations in 2013-14 and 11 stations in 2014-15 Alcoholic uncle forced child to beg

Ganesh, aged 7 years belonging to Gabbur in Raichur district of . His family migrated to Bangalore for work, but he continued his studies at his native place and was staying with his grandparents. During his summer vacation, he came to Bangalore to spend time with his mother. He stayed here for 15 days and then his mother sent back him to village with his uncle and had given Rs.5000/- for his education purpose. The child’s uncle was alcoholic. On the day of travel, he drank too much and slept at Yeshwanthpur railway station. Ganesh also sat with him for entire night and didn't even have anything to eat. By the time he woke up, the money was stolen by someone and he didn’t have money to return. So he asked child to beg on the platform. SATHI team noticed the begging child and took him to GRP. Ganesh's uncle was taken into custody and the boy was transferred to SATHI shelter. The boy was very innocent and interested in study, but he didn’t know his parents contact number. Meanwhile GRP staff collected his parents' number and contacted them. His mother came to Yeshwanthpur and was very emotional on seeing her child. She said “I had never thought that my brother could have done this; we had faith in him and sent our child along with him”. She also mentioned they were concerned about their child’s future and assured that would provide good educational facilities. Subsequently, Ganesh was happily reunited with his family and now continuing his studies.

Rescue Drives Rescue drives are intensive outreach programs lasting 3 to 10 days wherein a large team of outreach workers patrol the railway platforms for extended hours. These drives are usually conducted in collaboration with local NGOs and the support of GRP, RPF and volunteers. Rescue drives help in assessing the exact inflow of children per day. Another significance of this activity is that more number of children can be helped in a short duration. Rescue drive events are usually concluded with small ceremonies where children are reunited with their parents.

6 17th Annual Report Special Drives In the past year, rescue drives were conducted in several new locations, where SATHI did not have regular operations in addition to regular locations. In addition to the below, drives have been planned at many new locations such as Guwahati, Raipur, Jaipur, Nizmuddin, Darbhanga, etc.

Location Duration & # of Partner Remarks children rescued organization(s) SATHI

Sealdah, Kolkata 10 days 48 CINI The drive was conducted to estimate the children arriving at Sealdah railway station. Following the drive activity, SATHI and CINI formed collaboration and jointly started work in November 2015.

Ranchi 4 days 6 NDWWT SATHI had proposed starting reg- Bethel Children ular work in Ranchi and conducted Home a drive to estimate the number of children. The number of children is not significantly high, and it was concluded that NGOs already working on the station can cover the children needing help. This paved way for exploring newer locations.

Guntur 4 days 15 SEED Joint rescue drives conducted with (Child line ) local organizations to estimate inflow and reach out to larger Bhubaneswar 4 days 12 SOCH number of children.

Vijayawada 5 days 75 SKCV Trust, Being one of the busiest railway Navajeevana stations in Andhra Pradesh, 3 organizations worked together to reach out to children at Vijayawada. SATHI eventually started regular operations in Vijayawada with the support of SKCV Trust.

Rajendra Nagar 2 days 4 - These surveys were conducted to make a quick estimate of children - coming at different railways Danpur 2 days 1 stations in Bihar. The survey information and overall situation Sarvo Prayas of railway children in Bihar was Darbhanga 2 days 8 Sanstha shared with Justice VN Sinha, Patna High Court, Director of Social Welfare Department and Gaya 2 days 3 - others.

7 17th Annual Report Older children on railway platforms While a lot of children freshly arrive on railway platforms every day, seeing older children or children who have been staying on the platforms is also a common phenomenon. These children are usually found collecting bottles, involved in begging or rag-picking, sweeping floors, etc. to earn money. Many of them are also involved in substance abuse– such as solution (dendrite), smoking, alcohol and other intoxicating substances. SATHI Some of these children are local i.e. they have their families, but due to family problems or dysfunctional family, they start living on their own at the station. Some of them also earn money for their families, while others do not have the inclination to go back to their families. Details given in Annexure # 2)

Situation of the older children staying at railway platforms:

Approx. no of No. of children helped Station Name children seen on in this year platforms Mughalsarai 30-40 25 New Delhi 40-50 18 Old Delhi 60-70 15 Kanpur 15-20 15 Patna 30-40 06 Sealdah 60-70 - Varanasi 60-70 08 Vijaywada 30 -40 -

8 17th Annual Report SATHI’s regular intervention of bringing the children to a shelter and counselling them for 3 to 4 days is not suited for them. They need a longer and more intensive intervention, which can be provided through the Home Orientation and Removal of Substance Abuse Camp. Addicted child referred from platform wants to go home after camp

Dhanjeet, a 16 year old child left home almost 4 years back and was staying in GCH,Ramnagar.

His family lives in Buxar, Bihar. His father is a railway employee and mother is a housewife. SATHI Dhanjeet was not interested in studies and therefore could not score good marks like his brothers. For this, he was constantly teased by his younger brother. Dhanjeet started feeling low about himself and one day, he decided to leave home and started living on the railway platform. He also got into the habit of substance abuse. SATHI team contacted him and referred him to the Home Orientation and Removal of Substance Abuse Camp organized in the month of August-September 2015 at Ramnagar GCH. Through camp he successfully got rid of his habits and also developed an interest to go back to family. His family was traced and eventually Dhanjeet was reunited with his parents on 30th September, 2015 during the camp closing ceremony.

Efforts to help girl children Though the numbers of girls who have separated or run away from their families are lesser in comparison to boys, their issues are usually more serious. At the same, they are also more vulnerable to risks than boys. As per our experience, a majority of girls found on the platform belong to the age group of 15 to 17 years. Our team faces different kinds of difficulties in identifying runaway girls and rescuing them: these include pressure from onlookers as well as finding the right institutions for them. SATHI shelters cannot provide accommodation for girls. Despite the challenges, the team has rescued 57 girls across the project locations. A majority of them (29) are from Berhampur railway station in Odisha. Babli and her cousin Rupi (both 15 yrs of age, both names changed)) are from . Both of them came from poor family backgrounds – their parents worked as wood-cutters in Jharkhand. A boy named Simralured them to the city of Delhi, by talking to them about life in the city and that both of them could earn Rs. 10 to 15 thousand per month. Though the parents were worried about sending the girls with Simra, the girls upon seeing their house conditions, persuaded them to let them go with him. In Delhi, he provided them a job of housemaid for Rs 3000/- month. These girls were now doing the odd jobs at this home. After few months, their employer started behaving abusively with them and used to beat them for small reasons. Both the girls decided to move out from the place and one night, they left and reached Old Delhi Railway station. They slept on a bench through the night and in the morning; they bought some food from the canteen and were on a platform, when SATHI staff Priti & Anita contacted them. They told the girls about SATHI organization and enquired about their whereabouts. Once the girls were convinced, they shared their story with the staff. Finally, they were sent to a Girls’ Home for long term care & protection. Handling children below 8 years: Most children found on railway platforms are those between 13 to 16 years. However, there are a few cases of small children being found alone as well. They need to be attended to with a lot of care. In this year total 28 children below the age of 8 years get reunited with their family.

7 years old Rakesh belongs to Maharashtra. His father is a laburer and mother is a housewife. Child was referred by RPF Pune to Sathi. Child was unable to understand Hindi and Marathi so it was very hard to know about him. Through some deeper intervention it was obvious that he had come along with his mother at the railway station and got separated from her but was not able to tell how he travelled to Pune. The child could not share much infomation and was quiet at the shelter. Later on he was enjoying the company of other

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children, T.V Programs. With the given information about his village it was found that his village is located in the Gondia district of Maharashtra. With the help of local police and through internet his father was contacted. Father came to receive the child and informed that child was got separated from his mother during travelling. Child was happily reunited with his father on 26th November 2015. In recent follow up, came to know he is staying with his father and regular to school.

Good Practices SATHI With nearly 24 years of experience in more than 25 railway stations in India, outreach is one of the key strengths of SATHI. Our outreach team comprises a mix of experienced and new staff and some of the good practices we follow include:  Identification and proactively reaching out: The key to reaching out to children in need of care and protection is a team which proactively patrols the platforms and contacts children rather than waiting for child or concerned individual to approach the organization. New team members are tagged with experienced staff to learn the typical characteristics and behaviour of missing or runaway children directly on the field. Common features of such children include being alone and feeling confused or lost, having dried tears on the face, or being in a group with an unconcerned adult, alighting last from the train, etc.  DD/GD Entry: SATHI strongly insists that the record of all children rescued must be maintained and shared with GRP or RPF officials and duly acknowledged. The process has also been mandated as per the Standard Operating Procedures to ensure care and protection for children in contact with railways. Regular DD entry of all children rescued is done in all locations, except Sealdah, Kolkata.  No. of children helped per staff: In most locations where SATHI works, more than 100 children arrive at the station every month. It is possible for a single outreach staff spending 20 working days to rescue a minimum of 15 children per month.

Left home and left workplace, but finally reunited with family

16 year old Dipu, who hails from Murshidabad and has two elder sisters and three elder brothers. He dropped out of school in the 5th std. and started working in a fish shop. Though he worked for almost 8 hours a day, he earned only Rs. 600/- per month. He wanted to leave that work, but was scolded by his father. Eventually, he came to Kolkata and started working in a hotel, where he was earning almost Rs. 7000/- per month. His new employer treated him well and one day, he gave him responsibility to manage the hotel as he was travelling out for a marriage ceremony. This irked the other employees and they started scolding him. Hurt by this response, Dipu decided to leave the place and work somewhere else till his employer returned and landed in Sealdah. He was looking lost and confused when SATHI staff contacted him, and was brought to the shelter. Dipu took time to open up, but did not have any contact details or address of his employer. However, he gave proper address of his home in Murshidabad and with the help of local police station his family was contacted and invited. His elder brother came to receive him and was quite emotional after meeting his brother after more than 1 year. His family knew that he had left home to work, but did not know of the recent problems faced by him. Dipu went back to Murshidabad with his brother and is staying with his family now.

10 17th Annual Report Innovations and future plans  National Mobile Outreach Team: It has been conceived that an independent National Mobile Outreach team be formed with the objective of conducting rescue drives and surveys at many major railway stations across India, irrespective of whether SATHI is regularly working there or not. The team of about 10 members would handle the complete process of rescue drive – from getting permissions and approvals from relevant authorities to conducting the survey and documenting and disseminating survey results. These SATHI surveys would help get accurate data on inflow of children and plan for suitable interventions  Technology to aid field staff: Outreach staff record rescued children’s data on the platform using pen and paper. SATHI is planning to pilot test the use of Android based mobile app to collect basic information including picture of the child. Once tested, the process can be scaled and replicated. The key feature of collecting data online is that it is instantly available for analysis. It would also enable dissemination of information about children to relevant authorities such as CWC, DCPO, GRP, RPF, etc. on a daily basis.

11 17th Annual Report 5. SHELTER CARE

Shelter care is provided to children rescued from railway platforms. These shelters are usually located close to railway stations and run by SATHI directly or in collaboration with other partners. The scope of activities in the shelter includes the following: - Care and protection to children – includes food, washing facilities, clothing, night-stay and

medical attention, if required SATHI - Guidance and counselling–Interacting with children to understand the reasons for their separation with family, provide psychological & emotional support, guidance on future action and take inputs from professional counsellors, if required - Address tracing – Locating the whereabouts of the child’s home and contacting its parents using multiple tools & techniques - Interaction with parents – Inviting parents to receive their children and interactions to assess their opinion of why children ran away and what is their future plan for the child - Informal education, games & cultural activities – Engaging children in creative activities, informal learning sessions, indoor games, music and dance Number of children helped: In 2015-16, a total of 5569 children rescued from railway platforms availed facilities of shelters run by SATHI and partner organizations. (Details given in Annexure # 3) Status of 5569 children brought to shelter (Refer Annexure 3 for detailed break-up)

105 168

(3932) 1364 1364 1 2 (1364) 3 (168) 4 3932 (105) 3932

Duration of child in shelter: 57% of children stay at the shelter for 3 Typically a child stays for less than 6 days or lesser days in the shelter within which, the child is either reunited with family for 27% of children stay at the shelter referred to an institution. In a smaller between percentage of cases, the children stay 4 to 6 days for longer durations. An analysis of more than 3000 children brought to 16% of children stay at the shelter for 7 shelter shows that: days or more

12 17th Annual Report Children dropping/walking out of shelter: These are children who leave the shelter without proper closure of cases. In the year 168 children dropped out of shelters. This includes 113 from an Open Shelter in Delhi run by local NGOs, where children are free to walk out. The remaining are those smart and active children who managed to leave or escape from the shelter without the knowledge of staff. Shelter-care through collaborations SATHI SATHI strongly believes in collaborating with other NGOs to maximize the resources available and eventually help more children. It is part of SATHI’s strategy to accord first preference to collaborations for shelters. In 2015-16, SATHI operated its own shelters in only 8 out of 14 locations. We are immensely thankful to the following organizations for sheltering children rescued by SATHI in their centres.

Location Partner organizations providing shelter support for children Delhi* Prayas, Salaam Baalak Trust, SPYM

Kolkata (CINI) Asha

Bramhapur Society for Children (SOCH)

Vijayawada SKCV Children’s Trust

Allahabad Manav Kalyan Seva Samiti, Gramothan Jan Seva Samiti, Jagwanti Devi Gram Vikas Seva Samiti

Patna* DORD (Daudnagar Organization for Rural Development)

*In Patna and Delhi, SATHI has its own shelters as well, but uses the support of other NGOs for sheltering children based on need. Open Shelters under Integrated Child Protection Scheme The Integrated Child Protection Scheme is a scheme sponsored by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Govt. of India aimed at building a protective environment for children in difficult circumstances. One of the guiding principles of the scheme is that children are best cared for in their own families and have a right to family care and parenting by both parents. Under the ICPS, there is provision for Open Shelters for children in need in urban and semi-urban areas. The shelters are run by NGOs with 90% funding from the government, while the remaining 10% funds are to be raised by the respective NGOs. These shelters are meant to be temporary shelters and aimed at providing a safe environment for street children, homeless working children, deserted, trafficked or runaway children, begging children and others in need of care and protection.

13 17th Annual Report In 2015-16, SATHI operated Open Shelters under ICPS at the following locations

Location Date of commencement Funds recd. during the year 2015-16 Yeshwanthpur, Continuing from previous year Rs. 10.7 lakhs Bangalore Pune Continuing from previous year Rs. 4.3 lakhs New Delhi Approved and started in August Rs. 9.9 lakhs SATHI 2015 Kanpur Approved since February 2016 Nil Darbhanga Approved in February 2016. Nil

In addition, SATHI has submitted applications for Open Shelters in Mughalsarai and Varanasi. Both applications are expected to be approved in the forthcoming months. Other activities & events at shelter Special Support we received for shelter The activities of shelter are focused around care of  Akshyapathra Foundation the children, counselling & address-tracing and ISKCON, Bangalore is efforts to reunite children with their families. The providing food support to the shelter routine also ensures that children engage in children per day at Bangalore shelter creative and and Sadhu Vaswani trust is for Pune learning oriented activities. Additionally, the shelters Shelter. also serve as venues for  Free building for Shelter is being - Ceremonies to reunite children with provided by railway at Bangalore and parents Pune. - CWC sittings in times of need - Volunteers to meet and interact with children We are thankful to the railway, ISCKON & staff and Sadhu Vaswani Trust for their generous - Celebration of festivals support. CWC sittings at shelters A runaway or separated child is comforted in the shelter after which the counselling process starts. However, the Child Welfare Committees are the competent authority all decisions pertaining to children in need of care and protection. If the CWCs can go to the places where children are already feeling safe and comfortable, it would be deemed a child-friendly process. We are extremely appreciative and thankful to Child Welfare Committees of Mughalsarai, Varanasi, Patna, Kanpur and Vishakhapatnam for having conducted their sittings at children’s shelters. Memorable moments at SATHI shelters Inauguration of Sneh Grih – Children’s shelter at Mughalsarai On June 30th 2015, SATHI children’s shelter ‘Sneh Grih’ was inaugurated in Mughalsarai. The shelter was inaugu- raed by Honourable Justice (Retd.) Amar Saran, High Court, Allahabad. He appreciated SATHI for the well-equipped shelter and was pleased to interact with the children.

14 17th Annual Report Creative activities Children regularly engage in art and craft activities at the shelters. SATHI

Global Hand Wash Day We organized a Global hand wash day at our shelter home by facilitation of a local organization named Shramik Bharati. One member of Shramik Bharati taught the importance of global hand wash day, during the session, she interacted with children as well as our staff, she shared about the health & Hygiene, and she also shared the 10 healthy steps for cleaning-up the hand. Children learnt with role play and said thanks to her.

Exposure of School children in SATHI Shelter With shelter routine activities, we celebrated some events at our shelter home to sensitize to the about their rights and to make them comfortable. In this regard, we invited around 20 students from nearby Virendra Swaroop Education Center. School students spend a sufficient time among the shelter children, discussed about their issues and taught them the importance of education. Smt. Abha Mishra, who is a Teacher in VSED, distributed the old clothes, sweets and some gift items to the shelter children, while interacting with them. Support for shelter Sathi is grateful to all the people for assisting in operating shelters across our project locations. Few people donated money and sharing shelter cost expenses like Mr. Gaurav Taneja, every month donated Rs. 25,000 towards the expenses at the New Delhi shelter. The organization is very much thankful to all supporters. Refer Annexure # 9 for more details. Visitors The different stakeholders visited our shelters to observe the functioning of the shelter and gave inputs for bringing further improvements in the shelter. Refer Annexure # 8 for more details

15 17th Annual Report 6. COUNSELLING, ADDRESS TRACING & RESTORATION The process of counselling in SATHI involves working with the child to understand the background and circumstances for the child’s separation from family and ascertaining whether the conditions are suitable for the child’s repatriation into the family. Most children found on railway platforms come for simple reasons and our experience indicates that simple efforts of guidance and making the child realize the safety of family life are enough to motivate the child to go back to the family. However, there are cases in which the children do not SATHI open up easily or have difficult situation at home, where multiple interactions and more time with the child is needed. The counselling intervention at SATHI may be divided into 3 phases - Rapport building and collecting child’s details - Assessment of reason for separation - Decision making with regard to home-placement This is followed by address tracing, inviting parents to the shelter and restoration process with the advice of Child Welfare Committees. Ran away after being beaten by mother Saddam Hussain, a 10-year-old boy, ran away from home after his mother beat him up for having stolen their neighbour’s belongings and selling it for money. He was a very active child at the SATHI shelter, but he gave wrong information about his whereabouts, due to which SATHI team failed to trace his address. The address was finally traced through multiple sessions with the child. The staff even visited his house before the family could come to take back Saddam. He happily went home and is staying back with the family as per information gathered through a recent telephonic follow-up.

Highlights of 2015-16 • In the year 2015-16, 5569 children were brought to SATHI’s shelter after being rescued from the railway platforms. Of these, 3932 children were reunited back with families. 1364 children were referred to other institutions – either Govt. homes or shelters run by other NGOs • The counselling team expanded in size and over the year we had nearly 30 team members whose responsibilities included guiding and counselling the children. Their orientation and training on counselling and decision making criteria followed in SATHI was one of the key areas of focus for the organization, especially in newer locations • A training workshop for counsellors was conducted in Varanasi in November 2015 with 22 participants from different locations in India

Training workshop for counsellors A 3 day training workshop for SATHI counsellors was conducted at Varanasi in November 2015. There were about 22 participants from various parts of the country. The objective of the training included: • Understanding basic concepts of counselling, guidance and providing psychological and emotional support to children • Contextualizing the understanding to the organization functions within the norms of the child

16 17th Annual Report protection system • Methods of counselling / guidance to be deployed for different categories of children • Standardization of counselling & guidance practices within the organization (arriving at a set of guidelines / procedures) • Strengthening / improvement in counselling related process documentation

Key outputs of the workshop SATHI The workshop was conducted by Dr.Usha and Dr.Rashmi, both from BHU, Varanasi. The key learnings and takeaways from the workshop included basics of counselling, traits of a counsellor and understanding the characteritics of street children. Other topics included different steps in counselling prcess, conducting mental status examination of children and handling reluctant children among others. The workshop provided an opportunity for a lot of internal sharing within the team about the practices being followed at different locations, challenges faced, etc. It was decided that documents related to the following would be generated over the next few months based on field experience - Counselling techniques used in SATHI and their effectiveness with example cases - Difficulties faced in inviting parents to receive their children - Telephonic follow-up of home-placed children - Developing a counselling manual relevant to the needs and practices at SATHI The counselling manual is a key output planned for the year 2016-17 and would be based on the resource material used in this workshop.

Methods and techniques of counselling used at SATHI Most of the children received at SATHI shelter can be counselled through rapport building and conversations. In case the child has difficulties or is unwilling to open up, some techniques used include: - Drawing: to identify if child is having any issues with a particular family member - Letter writing: to help a child vent out bottled up thoughts and emotions to somebody s/he trusts - Story telling: to help child reflect on their own situation. Creative story telling also helps the child find solutions to his problems - Child to child interactions: in situations where the child is not feeling comfortable with the adults - Group counselling: to motivate children to share openly in a group Other modes of building rapport with the child and helping him/her open up include group activities and games, deeper interactions with residential staff at the shelter, motivational movies, cultural activities, etc. SL. CHILD AGE REASONS FOR LEAVING METHOD USED REMARKS NO NAME HOME

01 Nishant 10 During holidays Nishant was playing Realization letter Reunited till evening and went to temple with with family his friends. His sister found him there and threatened to complaint to his father. The fear of punishment made him ran away.

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02 Ramesh 14 This child is growing in HIV + care Deep Observation and Cross Referred to home in Kunigal, admitted by his Questions (Child is taking the HIV+ Care father. With the intension to see his tablet at Morning 8.30 am and Home. father the child ran away from the 8.30 pm daily). care home. Child knew that he is an HIV+. 03 Dhanush 16 The parents of this child are separated Drawing, Painting, NFE activi- Reunited

and for his better studies he is ties, Realisation Letter, Group with family SATHI growing under the care of grand activities, Motivational Movies mother (Maternal). His Grand mother and Moral Stories. found him smoking (Cigar) with peer group and complained to Dhanush’s mother. In fear of punishment he ran away from home. 04 Shahid 12 The child was scolded by his maternal Daily Activities, Realisation, Reunited uncle due to non proper reading of Games, Group Counselling. with family Urdu and English. In anger he ran away from home 05 Gagan 15 His mother had scolded him for Drawings, Group activities, Reunited scoring less marks in exam compared cross questions, moral stories, with family with his brother who scored well. motivational movie (Prince). He felt ashamed and ran away from home. 06 Rohit 13 He purchased a bag for Rs.500/- Drawing, Games, Cultural Reunited without informing anyone at home. Activities, Group Activities, with family His sister knew about this and scolded Motivational Movie him. He felt bad and left home. (Bhajarangi Bhaijaan- in this he After leaving home he travelled realised that which are the Jhansi-Mumbai-Pune and finally problems occurs that when reached Yeshwanthpur, Bangalore. a child is out of home, News paper cutting (Street children), Moral Stories.

Salmaan, a 13-year-old boy from Dhugoli, Assam, had left home a month ago with his neighbour, Inus. He reached New Delhi railway station after three days. He stayed with Inus’ family, in Kamla Market, Delhi. After intensive counselling, he confided with SATHI staff that his neighbours abused him because he refused to work. The Suskar police station is Assam then connected the staff to Salmaan’s brother, who in turn boarded a train to Delhi to pick up his younger sibling. His brother thanked SATHI for keeping Salmaan safe, who was then reunited with his family on November 18, 2015. Precently Salmaan is doing jewellery work along with his brother.

Decision making about home-placement There are six criteria that the counsellors must ensure before reuniting the child back to the parent. 1. Child is willing to go home 2. There must be atleast one person who will take care of the child 3. There must be scope for the child’s learning and growth 4. Basic needs (food, shelter, protection) must be met 5. The real reasons for child’s separation are identified and addressed 6. The possibilities of repeat runaway must be minimal

18 17th Annual Report The field team tries its best to ensure that all the criteria are met before opting for home-placement of the child. However, in some cases, there are difficulties and all the criteria may not meet. Therefore, it is insisted that a Decision Committee be formed at all locations and must meet every day to discuss the cases of children. This would ensure that the decisions taken are not unilateral and also bring in more perspectives in cases of dilemma. Examples of difficulty in decision making - Child is unwilling to go the hostel, but parents feel it is better for the child SATHI - Child comes from a disintegrated family and there is no one to take care at home - Child comes from an economically stable family, but step parent may not care. - Working children who have dropped out of schooling for a long time, and are most likely to go back to work again following home-placement SATHI staffs also interact with the parents / guardians separately before they can take their children back home. After this, the parents and the children together are counselled to ensure a safe home for the child and to confirm that the parents are going to treat the child right. Kundan, a 12-year-old boy, had run away from home almost 10 times, because he was being beaten up by parents on trivial issues. The SATHI staff found him at the Mughalsarai railway station, wherein he told them that he doesn’t want to go back home because his father beat him for not attending tuition classes. Kundan, for a long time, did not give contact information for the staff to home place him as he did not want to go back home. After regular counselling sessions, he was motivated to go back home and he finally shared the contact number. The parents were counselled on how to treat the child, as he seemed very sensitive. The child finally got back home with his mother and elder brother, partly motivated by the moral stories at the shelter home, according to the staff. During a recent follow up staff came to know that child is idle at home. Address tracing and restoration Following counselling and decision making of the child, the child’s address is traced by SATHI team in case it is decided to send the child home. Different methods are employed for address tracing – including contacting Police stations, Gram Paradhans, using internet, etc. The most common mode of address tracing is through the help of Police (in cases where the child is not the primary source of giving the contact information). Children’s addresses have been traced with the help of Police in 71% of such cases.

Jitendra, a 12-year-old boy, was living with his grandmother in Madhya Pradesh as both his parents were working in Aurangabad, Bihar. He had run away from after being scolded by his grandmother for not working. He was found at the Mughalsarai railway station, after which he was counselled by the SATHI team to go back home to his grandmother and he readily agreed. He couldn’t provide the exact location so the address tracing became a complex procedure, with the team looking up his village on the internet. His elder brother and uncle came to finally pick him up and promised to keep the child safe at home. Now Jitendra is staying with his family and going to school.

Cases where address tracing is difficult - When child deliberately lies or does not want to go home - When the child does not remember the exact name of his village or town - When the child is not in a position to reveal information due to physical or mental impairment - Younger children, usually below 8 years

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Prakash [name changed], Multi disabled child of 13 years was found by Police at Pune Railway Station and was referred to SATHI Shelter on 17th April, 2015. Child was not able to do anything neither speak nor do any of the activity like move, eat, drink. Child was totally dependent for his daily routine on the people around him. Staff had to bathe, feed, and make him drink water. It was difficult to look after him as there were no trained staffs who can take his care. The child remained lying on the bed the entire day. Staff tried hard to communicate with him through the help of signs & symbols but failed. The medical checks up and IQ Test of the child has been done. CWC had ordered to SATHI resettle the child in government home or any other NGO. SATHI staff tried reaching out to many places for resettling the child like Sawali NGO, Charitable Trust, Apang Samishra Audyogik Shala, but were not successful as the child was rejected on some or the grounds. After two months of the child’s stay at SATHI shelter, we received information from the Department of Social Welfare that there is a vacancy for the child at the Government home in Latur. CWC, Pune ordered to resettle the child there. The child is now well settled at the Sant Gadge Baba Maharaj Matimand [Mentally Retarded] Government Home for Special Children, Latur by SATHI. During the recent follow up, his school teacher informed that there are some postive changes found in the child.

Children home-placed from SATHI In 2015-16, a total of 4694 children were reunited with their families from different interventions of SATHI

Restored from SATHI / NGO Restored from Govt. Children Restored from camps shelters Homes 3932 606 156

20 17th Annual Report 7. ENGAGING WITH GOVT. CHILDREN HOMES A child must be sent to an institution only if all other options of a safe place for him to live and grow are exhausted. This is one of the guiding principles of the child protection system. In reality, there are thousands of children who are staying in both, government run as well as NGO run institutions across the country. It is also the duty and responsibility of these institutions to attempt to reunite these children SATHI with their families, wherever feasible. However, there are many children who end up being lodged in the homes, especially Govt. Children Homes for long time and remain out of contact with their families. With its belief that home is the best place for a child to grow, SATHI works with the Government children homes to not only reunite the children with families, but also to sensitize the staff and officials towards restoration approach.

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SATHI staff and Police efforts help reunite Ajay with his family after 6 years

16 year old Ajay is a simple boy belonging to the Oraon tribe in Chhattisgarh. He was staying in Govt. Home for Boys in Raipur when first contacted by SATHI staff in the month of March 2016. During initial interactions, he did not reveal much. He mentioned words Pankanjhore and Bengal, but those were not helpful in tracing the address. GCH staff had also put many efforts in vain. After repeated interactions, he started sharing his experience and told that he had run away from the Govt. Home and worked in a hotel near Raipur railway station for some time. But after being tortured by hotel owner, he came back to the home through Childline. Eventually, it was found that Pankhanjore is in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh through internet. District Control Room, Kanker was contacted and they gave the contact information of Pankhanjore Police station, but we could not get much information from this station. Efforts to get more information from the child as well as Kanker Control room were continued for 5 to 6 days. The child gave bits of information gradually and also spelled names of villages that sounded like Alanjore, Holanjur, Halanjur, etc. Finally, we got information from Kanker Police Head office that Halanjur comes under Sitagaon Police station limits in Rajnandgaon district, and that it is located in an interior area. As soon as Sitagaon Police station was contacted, the station in-charge said that a man by name Fulsey, has been visiting the Sitagaon police station in search of his son from time to time. Staff at

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Sitagaon Police station contacted Fulsey and brought him to Raipur. At the home, he was asked to identify his son from 5 to 6 children and he could promptly identify Ajay as his son, whom he had not seen since 6 years. According to him, Ajay had gone missing one night, when their family was travelling to Delhi for work in 2010. Fulsey had lodged a missing complaint in Sitagaon police station in 2012. Necessary formalities were completed and Ajay was happily reunited with his father after 6 long years. presntly child is assisting is father in agriculture work. SATHI SATHI would like to profusely appreciate the officials of Kanker District Control Room and Station in-charge for their incredible support in this reunification.

Media coverage of a girl child restored from Govt. Home Allahabad after 8 years

Geographical Spread SATHI’s work in Govt. Children’s Homes is spread in 9 states across India. The new states in which we started our work include Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Chhattisgarh. Our work in the homes is mainly supported by three funding agencies – Azim Premji Foundation (APF), Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives and Sir DorabJi Tata Trust

State Cities No. of Funding Remarks homes support Andhra Vishakhapat- 1 (boys) SDTT New work initiated Pradesh nam Assam Guwahati, 3 (2 boys + 1 APF Permissions obtained at the Naogaon girls) end of March; work started from April 2016 onwards. Bihar Patna 2 (1 boys + 1 APPI Continuation of girls) existing intervention

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Chhattisgarh Raipur 1 (boys) APF Chhattisgarh homes were surveyed in February 2016; counselling and restoration work was initiated in Raipur Govt. Boys home Delhi Delhi 2 (Boys + RC Continuation of work in Govt.

Girls) homes with several innovative SATHI programs introduced in NirmalChhaya girls’ home Maharashtra Mumbai 2 (1 boys + 1 APF Continuation of existing girls) intervention Telangana Hyderabad 2 (1 boys + 1 APF Continuation of existing girls) intervention Uttar Pradesh Allahabad, 6 (3 boys + 3 APPI, SDTT Work in Govt. Homes was Kanpur, girls) expanded to 3 more homes in Lucknow, this year. Ramnagar Kolkata, North 2 (1 boys + 1 APPI Continuation of existing

24 Pgs girls) intervention Efforts made at Govt. Children homes – in numbers • In 2015-16, SATHI worked in 20 Govt. Children Homes in 12 cities across India and counselled more than 1500 children. In 56% of these cases, the ad dresses of the children we re traced successfully. Among them, 69% of the children were reunited with their families, whereas families refused to accept children in the remaining cases. Status of children whose Children # of No. of addresses are traced Transferred No. of whose children’s children to other govt. home addresses Parents refused address counseled homes traced Home placed to accept the untraced children 22 1503 885 606 122 157 618

• Among 20 homes where SATHI worked, 11 are boys’ homes, and 8 are girls’ homes and 1 home is a home for mentally impaired children (boys). The break-up of number of children counselled and restored is given below: Details given in Annexure # 3)

Boys Girls Counselled 1032 471 Address Traced 641 254 Home-placed 479 127

From these numbers, it is seen that the addresses of more than half the children counselled are successfully traced. It is seen that 56%of the boys’ addresses are traced and 53% of the girls’ addresses are traced. However, while 77% of the boys whose addresses are traced are restored to their families, we are able to restore only 52% of the girls. This is because of unwillingness among families to accept the children. 23 17th Annual Report • Rejection by parents: We sometimes come across cases where parents have completely rejected their children. In such cases, we contact the parents and inform them that the children have changed after our intervention and they should give them another chance and let them grow within the family. But in some cases parents remained adamant and refused to trust their children again. The reasons for rejection are given below:

Reason for rejection by parents AP MH UP Delhi Bihar West Bengal Total SATHI Children have run away from home 6 7 10 1 2 5 31 more than 10 times. Children are in the habit of stealing. 2 - 3 1 1 4 11 Step parents 2 2 6 2 2 2 16 Parents have migrated or are in 13 11 27 5 6 8 70 financial distress Total 23 20 46 9 11 19 128

• Efforts of Govt. Home staff and other NGOs: In the homes that SATHI worked with in 2015-16, a total of 3578 children were reunited with their parents. We are happy to state that 78% of these children were home-placed through the initiatives of the GCH staff, while 17% were home-placed as a result of SATHI efforts. Other NGOs also have played a significant role in the home-placements.

The efforts of the GCH staff must be lauded and it is a positive sign that there is interest and pro-activeness shown in restoring the children. The GCH staffs of Delhi and Patna need to be specially commended as 96% of restorations in Delhi and 85% of restorations in Patna were through the initiative of GCH staff. (Details given in Annexure # 7) Left home for trivial reason, but still scared to go back Bashisht Thakur is a 14 year old child studying in 7th standard, hailing from a village in Balia district, UP. His father used to work in Jute mill in Kolkata and he is now retired. He also has two elder brothers. One day, Bashisht was playing cricket with some boys and one of the boys got hurt while playing. He went and complained about it to Bashisht's elder brother. Bashist was slapped by his brother in front of the other boy, as a result of which he felt very hurt. He left home in the night without telling anybody and boarded a train and landed in . In Chennai, he worked in hotel for a few days and slept on the railway platform. Through the intervention of a local NGO, details of which are not clear, he was transferred to Govt. Boys Home in Chennai. From there, he was further transferred to ApnaGhar Govt. Boys Home in Patna.

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At the home, he was counselled by the GCH staff. Bashisht was still carrying the hurt and initially, he gave wrong addresses and tried to mislead the staff. However, after further efforts, he shared that he is from Balia district in UP, but was scared to go home. Then he was assured by the counsellor that his father and brother would not scold him. With further information from the child, GCH staff contacted Kotwali Police station in Balia district, where it was found that an FIR had been lodged. Eventually, his family was contacted and he was happily restored. Presently child is happily staying at home. SATHI • FIRs lodged: Among the children home-placed from the Govt. Homes, FIRs were lodged only 25% of the cases. In 2013, the Honourable Supreme Court of India made it mandatory for Police stations to register missing complaints of children and appoint Special Juvenile Police Officers in all stations. Since most addresses are traced through the help of the police, an FIR registered in a police station makes it easier to locate the families of missing children. However, there is a long way to go before the practice becomes regular.

Mother prayed for the return of her son and lastly she succeeded after six yrs Naseem 16 yrs old boy was transferred from Govt. Children Home of Ramavarampuram, Kerala to Patna Govt. Home Bihar. At Govt. Home of Patna, he shared with staff of Sathi that he came along with his neighbor person to work at Chennai when he was 10 yrs old. He stayed for two years with his cousin brother and assisted in domestic work but he was ill-treating him, for not doing work or for not keeping the house clean. Naseem could not tolerate the beatings and scolding, thus he runaway from there.His intention was to return home but he does know the route back to his home, this made the child to loitering on the streets. He spends his many years in streets and station. He kept working in a bag factory of Thrissur district of Kerala and continued for three years. One day he came to visit Thrissur district but was contacted by Police and referred to the Ramavarampuram Govt. Children Home from there GCH,Patna. On asking his address, he said only ‘Suryapur’, the name of the place. The Sathi staff started regular interaction with him to get more clues about his address. One day while talking with the staff child told that his mother “Bhoonsabanatihai” means cooking the food through this words staffs guessed he would be belong to “Supaul “district of Bihar. With the help off Google and local police his address was traced. A missing complaint was lodged on his name and it was told that child’s mother has gone in depression after missing her son, as he was ONLY son. She used to frequently visit police station all these 5 years and cry for the child. She would threaten police saying she will register a case against them for not finding her child. In the village this news spread like fire in a Jungle, each & everyone was surprised to hear this news. For parents, it was overwhelming and rushed to Patna with legal documents to release their child. On 24th September, 15 child’s parents came to govt. children home. Mother started crying to meet her child very loudly. “My son”, is all she kept saying, hugging him tightly. Seeing this, all staffs present became happy and emotional.

Afraid of going to hostel, child left home and was reunited through telephonic conversations A 12 year old child named Saurabh hailing from Meerut district in UP was referred to SATHI by Ms.Shama (Ministry of Women & Child development). His father works as a cook in a hotel and his mother is a housewife. He has 4 siblings. His father had decided to send him with his maternal uncle to Delhi to get him admission in hostel and study. Saurabh was reluctant to go to the hostel and in fear of being sent away to a hostel, he left his home in the morning at around 5 am and came

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to Hardwar by bus. He was roaming around the city and reached the railway station where he was contacted by Police personnel who admitted him in Roshan Bagh Government Children home. The home staffs interacted with Saurabh and tried to locate his area but were unable to trace his family in Meerut. When SATHI staff got the information about the child from Ms.Shama, they spoke to the child on phone. After two or three regular conversation over phone child gave some clue about his home and family. With the help of local police and internet his address was traced within 3 days. Child’s SATHI father came to the GCH, immediately after getting this news. He had tears of joy on seeing his son at Govt. Children Home. He told that he had lodged FIR in Medical College Police station when Saurabh ran away from home. Surveys & data collection on status of children in Govt. Homes Over the last year, we collected information about children in Govt. Homes in different states through physical and telephonic surveys, interaction with officials of the Govt. Homes and State Child Protection Societies. The focus of the data collection was number of children staying at the home against the capacity of the home, number of children staying for long durations and number of children who are not in contact with families. Information collected from various states is given below: Uttar Pradesh: Data was collected from 13 homes in Uttar Pradesh. Complete information was available from only 11 homes. Against a capacity of 800 children in these homes, there were 530 children staying at the home at the time of data collection.

No. of Children present Children Children out of Address traced but homes at home staying more than contact with family refused 3 months family 11 530 356 310 40

There are more than 300 children who are out of contact with family and SATHI is focus is to work with such children, especially if they are staying there for a long time. There are 10 NGOs working in these homes who work on restoration of children. Positively, the admission rate and restoration rate of children was more or less balanced. 491 new children were admitted in these homes in 4 months prior to the date of data collection. In the same period 359 children were restored to their families. Assam: Information about Govt. Children Homes in Assam was obtained through the office of the State Child Protection Society, In Assam; there are 4 homes for Children in Need of Care and Protection and 5 observation homes. Data was available for 3 homes – Fatasil (Boys), Jalukbari (Girls) &Naogaon (Girls). Each home has a capacity of 50, but all of them had more than 50 children staying there.Each home also has a counsellor and case-worker appointed by the state. Duration of stay: 95 children were staying in the home for more than 1 year; 14 children above 4 months and 42 children were at the home for less than 4 months. In Nagaon and Jalukbari, Observation Homes is attached to the Children needing care and protection Chhattisgarh The state of Chhattisgarh has Govt. Homes for Children in 2 major districts – Raipur and Durg. Mana Camp area in Raipur has three institutions - Government Children’s Homes for Boys, Girls and for

26 17th Annual Report physically challenged boys. In addition to these there are separate homes for mentally impaired boys and girls in Raipur, run by NGOs under Integrated Child Protection Scheme. Durg district has a Government Children Home for boys. S No. Name of home Capacity No of children Not in contact Admitted by staying with family parents 1 Government Children 50 29 11 4 SATHI Home for Boys, Raipur 2 Government Children 50 56 10 4 Home for Girls, Raipur 3 Government Children 50 30 15 12 Home for Boys, Durg Further, the information of duration of stay of 29 children in Raipur home was obtained by SATHI staff. With the support of DCPO, Raipur, CWC and Superintendent of the boys’ home, SATHI worked with the children in these homes and traced the address of 4 children successfully. Duration in GCH No of children Less than 6 months 14 6 months to 1 year 6 More than 1 year 9 Total 29 West Bengal Information was collected from 12 Govt. Homes in West Bengal (7 Girls’ Home and 5 Boys’ Home) through telephonic conversations with Superintendents of the Homes. From, the data, the point of concern that emerges is that nearly 1000 children are not in contact with families. Local NGOs are working in the homes in all the districts. Children staying Children in Total Capacity Children staying for more than 3 contact with months family Boys (5 homes) 550 443 138 40 Girls (7 homes) 1100 682 214 55

SATHI has sought permission from the Department of Social Welfare to conduct a baseline survey in all the homes and subsequently propose an intervention towards restoration of children. However, the progress has been slow on that front due to elections in the state. Child lost way and landed in Delhi Government Home

Afsana is a child from Sitamadhi district, Bihar. She has 5 brothers – the eldest brother is married and the next elder brother works in Ludhiana. The three younger children were studying at a Madarsa. Afsana had been irregular to Madarsa because of her mother’s illness. She also did not want to study there, as a result of which her father had scolded her. In anger, she left home without informing anyone and reached Delhi. From Delhi, she boarded a bus to a place called Seemapuri, where she got down and started looking for her brother. She could not find him and was wandering around, when a lady approached her and took her to the police station. Through police’s referral and CWC order, the child landed at Sanskaar Ashram Children’s Home. In her interactions with the counsellor,

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Afsana shared the name of her village (Vishnupur) and district. Staff used internet search to locate the concerned police station, which was in Bela. Information was shared with the police station and in less than 2 days time; we received a call from Bela police station connecting us to the child’s mother and brother. The mother’s version of separation of child matched the child’s version and they left for Delhi immediately. The child was handed over to their parents. Presently Afsana is idle at home.

New initiatives undertaken SATHI Programs for children staying for long duration in Nirmal Chhaya Girls Home Nirmal Chaya Girls’ Home in Delhi has a capacity of nearly 250 and houses nearly 200 girls. There are about 60 girls above the age of 16, for whom going back home is not an option due to various reasons. While some of them go to Govt. Schools, there are no vocational trainings or skill development programs conducted for them. With inputs and funding support of Railway Children UK, SATHI initiated programs for vocational training and life-skills for these children. These included computer classes, tailoring and beautician courses for the girls. These courses were for 3 months duration and in each course about 25 children participated. Totally, about 40 children took benefit of the program. In addition, life-skills session was held for 22 children in March 2016. More programs are planned for these children including theatre-based workshops and life-skills trainings in the coming months. These programs are helping in personality development, confidence building and cultural exposure of children.

Group approach to counselling and restoration of children SATHI embarked on a new approach to working with children in Govt. Homes, especially those staying for long durations. Instead of prolonged one-to-one counselling, a group approach was used wherein a team of 3 to 4 members engages with selected children for a period of 15 days. During this period, the children spend their entire day with the team and engage in multiple activities playing games, art and craft, informal education, story-telling (moral stories), etc. The initial couple of days are reserved for rapport building with the children and there is space for one-to-one discussions with the child as well. The first such program was conducted in Kanpur Girls’ Home with 16 girls. The program helped the children open up to those team-members who they felt most comfortable with and also resulted in more children being helped in a short period of time. The program also livens up the atmosphere in the Govt. Home and the children welcome the change in routine.

28 17th Annual Report Results of counselling through group activities in Kanpur Girls Home

No. of children Duration & no of Address traced Home-placed Parents’ refused staff involved and other issues 16 15 days / 4 staff 11 girls 7 girls 4 girls

It is proposed that these programs would be replicated in multiple homes in the next year and a SATHI manual for the same would also be prepared.

Other highlights Inauguration of Counselling Room under GCH premise: Ramnagar GCH in Varanasi is one of the most spacious Govt. Homes with sprawling lawns and open spaces. SATHI has now conducted 4 camps in the homes and receives excellent support from the staff. Heeding to SATHI’s request, a separate counselling room was allotted for SATHI counsellors to interact with the children. The Counselling Room inaugurated during a camp-closing and family reunion program in which Mr. Amit Verma (SP Chandauli), CWCs Chairperson & Members, Superintendent-Government Children Home were present. Appreciating Welfare / Probation Officers for their excellent work Ms. Priyanka, Welfare Officer at Alipur Govt. Children Home has been a dedicated staff of the home. With her own initiative, she involved actively in the home-orientation camp conducted by SATHI. She made daily visits and interact with children and camp team. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Welfare Officer at Alipur Govt. Children Home is very effective in rapport building with children in Government Children Home. He is very sup- portive to children staying in GCH. He deals with children very sensitively and counsels children with full motivation.Their efforts and dedication were recognized and she was given a token of appreciation by Honourable Justice MB Lokur, Supreme Court of India at Camp closing and reunion program held on August 17, 2015. Ms. Pratibha Pandey, Counsellor at Govt. Children’s Home in Shahjahanpur, UP has put extraordinary efforts and reunited 22 children from the Home with their families within 3 months. Her efforts came to light during a village level study which was being conducted in Shahjahanpur district by SATHI. We recognized her efforts in the presence of DPO, Chairperson and members of CWC and others at the DPO’s office in Shahjahanpur. Complete handover of restoration related responsibilities in Delhi Homes SATHI has worked for several years in 5 to 6 Govt. Children Homes and has received good support from the state department and GCH staff for counselling and restoration work. During this time, SATHI has also conducted training programs and capacity building activities for the staff. Over the last year, we have also noticed that the staff members have been taking steps towards restoration of children proactively. In this context, it is time for SATHI to move on as we are confident that GCH staff will handle restoration related activities completely. We would like to use the opportunity to focus on newer activities such as theatre-based exposure, de-addiction camps and support in

29 17th Annual Report handling complicated cases, if any. We would like to thank the Department of Women and Child Development, Delhi Govt. and all GCH staff, CWC members and DCPO for the support they have given us. Challenges & Concerns: • Each State government has developed an SOP for functioning of CWCs. However, there are

gaps between the SOP and actual practice. For e.g., CWCs are taking decision about transferring SATHI children from other places to the concerned district or state without any intervention with the child or even basic counselling. This creates a problematic situation for the child as he has to stay in the home without any intervention and has to wait till an escort is available to transfer him to a different GCH. • When SATHI produces children before CWC for admission into institutions, it is difficult to keep track of the status of these children. This is because the institution may not allow our counsellors to work with the child. While we respect the organization’s decision in this regard, there must be a way of finding the status of the child and knowing if the child needs any support. • In cases where CWC sittings do not happen regularly, parents have to wait till the next sitting for their children’s resettlement. • The guidelines and responsibilities of handling child labour cases are not very clear. It is expected that the NGO rescuing the child must trace the employer and get the child’s wages back to him. This is not practical in all cases. The Labour Commission and Child Welfare Committee must converge and come up with practical steps to address the issue. Learning One of the important learnings from the year was from the baseline studies conducted in GCH. The children were classified as child-labour, runaway, orphans, etc. We find that most of the children are runaway children. In many of their cases, resettlement into the family is feasible and CWCs should focus on the same. For difficult cases and children who are staying for longer durations, SATHI has a camp approach. This is finding wide acceptance among Govt. Homes and we conducted most our camps in Govt. Homes. The camps are also helping sensitize the GCH staff. We would finally like to acknowledge that GCH Welfare Officers are engaging with the children and taking proactive effort for address tracing. This is a positive development and will benefit large number of children in the long run.

30 17th Annual Report 8. HOME ORIENTATION CAMPS From habitually running away to being regular in school

Madhu, now fifteen years old, from Mandya district, Karnataka first left home at the age of 12 because of an alcoholic father and conflicts at home. He picked up the habit of consuming harmful substances such as gutkha, ganja, solution (dendrite), alcohol and smoking, along with stealing and became habituated to running away from home. He had left home at least ten times SATHI now and travelled to various places like Bangalore, Ballary, Hubli, etc. only to be sent back home by the police most of the times. Madhu was staying at the Govt. Boys Home, Bangalore when SATHI planned to conduct a one-month Home Orientation Camp at the Home’s premises itself. Based on his history, Madhu was selected to participate in the camp. He was very aggressive, non-cooperative and non-participative in the initial days of the camp and was disturbing other children in the camp. Over a period of time, he slowly started participating in activities like yoga, meditation, moral stories classes and non-formal educational activities conducted during the camp. Changes could be seen in Madhu and towards the end of the camp, he was one of the most active children in the group. He was made aware of the hazards of living on the street, effects of taking substance on one’s health and the importance of education. The child was sent to home along with the father. After home placement, the team had regular contact with parents and the school teacher and made arrangement for his education. He is now enrolled in a local government school in standard VII and is studying well.

Madhu is one of 257 children who participated in Home Orientation and Removal of Substance Abuse Camps conducted by SATHI in this year. Further, he is one among 156 children who were successfully reunited with their families at the end of the camp. Camps – Background and brief history The Home Orientation and Removal of Substance Abuse Camp is an intervention designed and organized by SATHI to rehabilitate and reintegrate the children who are away from homes for a long duration, addicted to harmful substances and habitual runaways. In the last 24 years, SATHI has organized more than 250 camps in different locations and more than 6000 children have participated in them. The camp manual, initially developed by Dr.ShekharSheshadri of NIMHANS Bangalore has evolved with experience and was revised in 2013 by Fr. George Kollashany, who has extensive experience of working with street children. Who are the camps for? The profiles of the children for whom the 1-month Home Orientation and Removal of Substance Abuse Camps were conducted are given below: The camp team spends time profiling and selecting the children before the camp. • The child is out of home for long duration • The child is a victim of substance abuse • The child is in the habit of repeatedly leaving his place (home / shelter / institution) • The child prefers a life on platforms over a life at home with family. • The child holds a negative experience of being with family and parents.

31 17th Annual Report • The child is staying in an institution (like Govt. Children’s Home) for a long time and is not in contact with family. • The child has aggressive / abusive behaviour and language.

Children helped through camps this year

10 camps were conducted by SATHI through the year in 7 different locations. Out of these 2 camps SATHI were conducted outdoors, while the rest of them were conducted in Govt. Children Homes. A special camp for girls was conducted in NirmalChhaya Govt. Home for girls in Delhi.

Location No. of Number of Resettlement details of children camps children Home Referred to Transferred to Staying at conducted Enrolled placed other NGOs other GCH GCH Bangalore 1 26 20 02 03 01 GCH Delhi 2 59 29 00 11 19 Ramnagar 3 82 57 00 09 16 GCH Hyderabad 1 25 15 04 00 06 GCH Kanpur 1 25 16 00 05 04 Camp Patna 1 20 10 00 00 10 Bhubane- 1 20 09 03 00 08 swar Total 10 257 156 09 28 64 The highest percentage of home-placement is seen in the camp held at Bangalore (77%), while the three camps conducted in Ramnagar was also considerably effective in restoration of children back in their homes (68%).

Saifullah, a child from Darbhanga, Bihar, is a habitual runaway according to his parents. He did not want to study, so he had run away to Mumbai a couple of times in search of work. Even in the village, since he would only roam around and not attend school, his parents got fed up having him at home. When the Mughalsarai SATHI staff traced his address and contacted his parents, the father refused to take him back home because of his attitude, despite a lot of efforts from SATHI staff. Saifullah was then counselled and was referred to the Ramnagar Government Children’s Home (GCH henceforth). After he attended the Home Orientation & Removal of Toxic Substance Camp conducted by SATHI, he was reintegrated with his family and is still at home, as informed when a telephonic follow-up was done.

32 17th Annual Report Objectives and methodology The objectives of the camps conducted by SATHI include - Promoting the child’s mental health by providing psycho-social support - Helping them develop self-confidence so that they can integrate into the mainstream without inhibitions

- Motivating children towards life with their family at home SATHI - Providing services like counselling, group work, experiential learning, addressing behavioural issues - Conducting recreational, creative and cultural activities for creative exposure of the child - Sensitizing children towards education and learning through informal educational activities The camp methodology includes rapport building activities in the initial week followed by moral stories, games, sessions on health and hygiene, yoga and meditation, art and cultural activities, team building and boding exercises and special sessions by external resource persons. The camp is residential and a 4 to 5 member team lives with the children throughout the duration of the camp.

Break-up of 4 weeks of activities in the camp

FIRST WEEK SECOND WEEK THIRD WEEK FOURTH WEEK

-Help kids adjusting to the - Understand the bad - Encourage feelings for - To develop a strong new environment. incidents happened the country and family. will power in life. - Encourage children to with the child at the - Persuade them to start - To aware the

actively participate platform. their education again children to keep

activities. in the camp - Get the information and attend the school. certain goal in life. - Develop a rapport and from the child about - Help them realize the - To understand the relationship of trust their addiction habits. mistake they made by importance of blood between children and - Motivate the running away from relation. staff. children to give-up the family. - To inspire the - Motivate them to share addiction and - Share about the children regarding openly about their platform life. importance of family fight against the feelings and emotions. - Encourage them to and guardian in life. corruption and - Ensure them about an share their - Help them violent domestic environment which experience outside understand about problems. will be trustworthy, the home. their responsibilities - To communicate safe & learning. - Inform them about towards home, regularly well with - Help them de-learn the harmful effects of society and country. parents, teachers the abusive language sexual abuse. and with us after and learn some good - Share the difference the camp. habits. between platform - Guide them to treat and camp life. them respectfully - Motivate children to and dream of a good share their problems future with the camp staff

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Radhe, a 12-year-old boy, left home for the second time in two years and came to Mughalsarai from Tata railway station, Jharkhand. Radhe was part of the orientation camp organised in August - September. He said that his parents live in Mumbai and collect rags at the railway station for a living. His parents forced him to take care of his younger sister and he was bored of the responsibility. He then left home and reached Jharkhand, where he survived by picking rags and selling bottles. In the meantime, he also got severely addicted to solution and other substance

abuse. The camp restored him to his healthy self and aided him in letting go of his addictions. His SATHI address was then traced and he was handed over to his aunt at the camp’s closing ceremony.

Towards the end of the camp, children develop feelings towards their families and address-tracing activities are carried out. Fund raising for Camps Conducting a camp can cost between Rs. 1 lakhs to upwards of Rs. 2 lakhs depending on whether the camp is conducted in Government premises or outdoors. To conduct camps in new locations or outside regular project grants, we are attempting to use crowd-funding channels. We had discussions with www.notforprofit.in in this regard. We also circulated fund requirements for conducting a Home Orientation camp in Bangalore among SAHI Board members. In response, we received a sum of Rs. 1.25 lakhs from Mrs. Nirmala Murthy alone. SATHI would like to heartily thank Mrs. Murthy for the contribution. Girls Camp conducted in Nirmal Chhaya Home, Delhi A camp was organized for 25 girls staying in the Government Home of Delhi for a longer period. It was a challenging experience for SATHI as our experience of conducting camps for girls is limited. Among the girls selected there were 14 who had suffered the loss of a parent, 2 cases of separated parents, 9 cases of step-parents, 3 who were victims of sexual assault, 6 children who were trafficked or were child labourers and 4 who had a history of substance abuse. The camp activities comprised counselling (individual and group), behavioural therapies / interventions including anger management, art therapy, educational inputs through NFE classes, and life-skills education. An orientation on child rights and sessions on body and sexuality were also part of the modules used in the camp.

34 17th Annual Report Though there were a variety of sessions targeted at the needs of these children, there were challenges faced as the children were not willing to open-up. The most difficult problems faced were while dealing with children who had faced physical and psychological issues. The team has certainly gained from the experience and would be in a better position to handle the next camp for girls. Camp closing & follow-up: The camp ended with a wonderful experience as 5 girls got reunited with their families. Mrs. Rashmi Saxena Sahni, Jt. Secretary in the Ministry of Women and Child

Development was present at the reunion ceremony. She spoke to every girl and parents who had arrived SATHI personally. After 15 days of the camp closing, a physical follow-up was done. Staff visited the homes of all 5 girls reunited with their families. As per the visit report, except 1 girl, all others are well settled with their families, one girl has got married. One girl has again run away from home again.

Nargis was just 9 years old when she was admitted in NirmalChhaya girls home. Her father works as a porter and her step mother works as a labourer. Her biological mother died due to health issues. Nargis had 3 elder sisters and 2 younger brothers. Nargis was very close to her biological mother. And being the youngest child (before her father remarried) she was raised with lot of care. However, her step mother was not having a loving relation with her. She used to shout at Nargis often whenever Nargis tried to be naughty. Nargis disliked her. All her elder sisters got married. Nargis felt alone. One day her step mother slapped her for her misbehaviour and Nargis left her home without informing anyone. She was found in a deserted condition in Bhagwanpur area by Childlineand was brought to Nirmal Chaya, New Delhi the same day. Nargis adjusted herself in this new environment very easily because she did not wanted to go back home and none of her sister was there now. When Welfare Officers of Nirmal Chhaya tried to probe Nargis about her address she kept quiet and often misguided them by giving wrong information. She was involved in SATHI camp in 2013, but no changes were seen in her and she kept her real address to herself. In 2015 again she was involved in SATHI camp and more focus was given on her behaviour and attitude toward things. To our surprise Nargis from being rude, stubborn, aggressive turned into polite, friendly and one who respect elders. Nargis seeing the behavior of counselors in camp with her remembered her sisters at home and therefore, she told the real address where she stayed. Her address was found through a name (Rani Aunty) she remembers nearby her locality. Her family had migrated from the place Nargis knew. But Rani helped us to find Nargis sister’s address. Nargis sister Sonam received her sister with a heavy heart as she was seeing Nargis after the gap of 7 years. During telephonic follow up it was known that Nargis is staying with her sister and have started going school.

35 17th Annual Report Highlights from different camps Celebrating Independence Day at midnight - Bangalore Independence Day was celebrated at midnight at the premises of Govt. Children Home in Bangalore.

Children from SATHI camp, which SATHI was being conducted at that time, also participated in the celebrations. They performed a patriotic song and dance sequence and a skit, which was appreciated by all. (Pic. Courtesy: The Hindu)

Art and crafts at Patna Camp SATHI camp team comprises people who are talented in art and cultural activities. One of the team members, Raju Gayen has wide experience in teaching art, drawing and craft using simple materials including waste. Children participating at ApnaGhar Patna got a good exposure and opportunity to display their creativity under the guidance of Raju Gayen

36 17th Annual Report Martial Arts Orientation at Ramnagar Camp Participants at Ramnagar camp had an exposure to Martial Arts, its importance and basics from a special resource person. The exposure, exercises and practice help in inculcating a sense of discipline among the children. SATHI

Bicycle race for camp children at Kanpur A bicycle race was organized among the camp children at Kanpur. The objective was only to grow the competition feeling among them. Children enjoyed the race, there were some village children also involved in that. Some of the camp children felt like home atmosphere and realized very happy.

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Sagar is 14 year old child. His father has general merchant shop and his mother is house wife. He has two younger brothers. Before leaving home he was studying in class 7th. Child was intelligent but careless about his study. Child had fight with his brother, for that his mother beaten him and he escaped from home and reached at Patna station, from there his station life started. He used to spend most of his time with those who were involved in bad activity like addictions. Out of home duration1 Year Sagar was not at all ready to involve in the camp, but after a lot of efforts he involved in GCH camp SATHI in September 2015. But through more counseling and sessions like Moral stories, Physical exercise, Thermocol presentation about effect of addictions he showed interest in camp and changes seen in his behavior. He said that he will never take any substances again in his life. Staff tried to trace his address through various counselling techniques but child revealed his past story except his address. But at the last week in camp child realised his mistake and shared the reason for run away from home and proper address of his family and through which his parents were contacted. Father along with his cousin came to take the child. He felt very happy by seeing his son safe and sound. He shared that he spent nearly Rs.1 lakh to search Sagar. cities like Kolkata, Delhi, Lucknow, Ahmadabad, Ranchi. Due to this his health spoiled and was hospitalized. When they lost hope of getting his son back suddenly they got information that their child is in Ramnagar, GCH. While sharing all these information his eyes shed with tears. After counseling him and all the legal formalities he was sent with his father on 30th September 2015. According to his parent, in a recent telephonic follow up, child is staying with them and studying in 8th std. Challenges & new initiatives Parents counselling Many times when children leave home and get into risky behaviour, there are multiple factors behind the separation including family issues or attitude of family members. While camp is an intensive approach and we work with the child and try to address the issues from one perspective, we do not get enough time to work with the parents. This is a limitation in the model, but it is also practically difficult to get parents to spend more than a couple of days with us. To address this gap to the extent possible, a series of sessions with parents of children was planned towards the end of the camp for boys at Kanpur. The parents of children were convinced many days before the camp closing to prepare to stay for 2 days before the children can be handed over to them. During these two days, individual and group sessions were held with the parents about the child and family issues. Group sessions were held where resource persons from The Art of Living, CWC members and others with experience in children’s issues interacted with the parents. An interesting observation in the group sessions: Children’s issues and feelings were placed in front of the parents during a group session to seek their opinion on the same without mentioning the child’s name. We could observe that some of the participants were critical of how the parents had behaved with their children. One particular parent was even suggesting how the parent should change his attitude, without realizing that the case being discussed at the time was of his own son. Child goes back home with reluctant mother

16 year old Adil (name changed) is a child from Delhi, who has been repeatedly leaving home, is into habit of stealing as well as substance abuse. His mother had sent him to different de-addiction programs, but he had not kicked the habit. At the time of enrolling for the camp, he had been

38 17th Annual Report staying for 4 to 5 months in Kanpur Govt. Home. He participated in the camp actively, even though he made plans to escape from the camp in the initial couple of days. Towards the end of the camp, he expressed his desire to go home. His mother was traced and she came to receive him. However, his mother said that it is better he stays in the Govt. Home as he would probably not have access to substances and would also stay out of company of his friends in Delhi.

SATHI camp team felt that the child should be given another chance and convinced his mother to SATHI take him back to Delhi. After a couple of weeks, his house was visited by our counsellor in Delhi. Adil was staying at home, but not very regularly. The child even ran away from home again and in a recent conversation with his mother, she requested SATHI to find a suitable home /institution for her child.

Alternative arrangements for children who are not restored One of the most common challenges faced during the camp is the care-plan of children who cannot be reunited with the families. It is a very tough and emotional moment for the child as well as the staff, when they see that other participants of the camp have been reunited with their families, especially when parents come to receive their children. But for children who either do not have good situations at home, or whose addresses cannot be traced have to go back to the same situation where they came from. In some cases, they are referred to other institutions, but making a long-term care plan is difficult.We must find more alternatives for such children so that all the positive learning of the camp does not go in vain. De-Addiction Camps SATHI camps contain sessions on health issues, which specifically cover the topic of impact of substance abuse on our body. These sessions along with regular exercise, physical activities, moral stories, etc. help the child get rid of their substance abuse habits to a large extent. However, this level of intervention is neither suitable nor sufficient for children and juveniles who are into extremely high levels of addictions. Our camp presently does not address issues of highly addicted children. Unfortunately, we do find many children living on platform or street for a long time and has severe substance abuse issues. These children also need to be helped and brought into the mainstream. SATHI is planning to collaborate with organizations having expertise and experience in the field of de-addiction, especially for juveniles. SATHI is currently in discussions with organizations viz, SUPPORT, Mumbai and Disha, Patna to take forward the idea and conduct camps that specifically focus on de-addiction. We also plan to train our own team members in this area.

39 17th Annual Report 9. REUNION EVENTS – MOMENTS OF JOY & TEARS

FAMILY REUNION CEREMONY DATE & PLACE CHIEF GUEST & COMMENTS 30th June 2015, Mughalsarai  Chief Guest Justice Amar Saran (HC,

Allahabad), Mr.B.R. Viplavi (ADRM, ECR SATHI Railway), Justice Zaigumuddin (ADJ, Chandauli), Justice Avinash Kumar (Magistrate Chandauli), Mr.B.B.L. Shrivastawa (State Member of CWC Selection Committee), Mr.Shravan Kumar Gupta (DPO,Chandauli)

 17th August 2015, New Delhi Justice MB Lokur (Supreme Court of India), Justice Amar Saran (High Court Allahabad), Ms. Saumya Gupta (Director DWCD)  All of them advised parents to take care of their child once they go back home and spend some time with the children.

Mrs.Prema Kumari (ICPS, Project Director), 27th Aug 2015, Bangalore Mrs. Chaitra (Member of JJB, Bangalore), Mrs. Smitha (CWC members), Ms.Tasqeen (APPI)  “Though it is a small number it is a unique experience and delighted movement for me” stated by Mrs.Premakumari, ICPS Director, in her speech and also advised parents that if child runaway/ lost do the missing complaints immediately and make sure that child will be happy once he comes back home.

October 2015, Pune  Child homeplaced in the chamber of Mr. Gururaj Sona (Station Master, Pune)

 He advised child not to be angry with family as they advice only for his better future. He motivated to go home and continue his studies.

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 Mr. V. N. Mishra (Chief Justice of Patna High 5th November 2015, Patna court), Mrs. Nisha Jha (Principal Secretary of DWCD), Mr.Md. Imammuddin (Director of Social welfare) and Mrs. MamtaJha (Dy. C. P. O.)  They asked questions with parents and tried to know how their children ran away from home, they also suggested all children ran away is SATHI not solution of any problem they should try to search alternate problems and share the prob- lems with their parents.  Smt. Poornima Pathak (Secretary of DLSA), 22nd January 2016, Kanpur Dr.Jyoti Singh (Member of UPSCPCR), Members of Kanpur CWC, Sri. Shakeel Khan (Assistant Security Commisioner/RPF), Sri. B.B.L Srivastava (Member of CWC Selection Committee), Sri. Ganesh Shanker Pandey (Convener of Org.), Smt. Neela Verma (Superitendant of Boys Home), Smt. Kavita Tiwari (Teacher from AOL)  The entire guest interacted with children and their parents. During their speech they appreci- ated well the works done by Sathi young team.  25th January 2016, Varanasi Mr. Adarsh (Crime S.I.), Mr. Arjun Kr. Pandey (GRP Inspector), Mr. Satish Arjun (RPF Inspector), Mr. Pradeep Agrahary (BJP Member) and Mr. A.B.S. (Professor from BHU)

 They interact with parents individually and suggested them to give care and protection to their child.

 25th February 2016, Mughalsarai NCPCR team visited Sathi Shelter and Ram nagar Government Children Home

 They visited the shelter premises and seemed very pleased after interacting with the children.  Involve in reintegration of some children at Ramnagar Govt. Children Home

41 17th Annual Report 10. FOLLOW-UP AND POST HOME PLACEMENT SUPPORT SATHI’s work begins with outreach and rescue of a child on the railway platform or at the Government Children Home. After counseling, engaging the child at the shelter home or the GCH, SATHI ensures that there is a follow-up with the child for up to 1 year from SATHI the date of home-placement. It is when we find that the majority of the children home-placed continue to stay with their families that we get a sense of satisfaction from our efforts. Telephonic follow-up Our team notes the details of the family when the child is home placed. Subsequently, every child is contacted by telephone after three, six, nine and twelve months to understand the child’s circumstances after restoration. (Details given in Annexure # 6 A, B & C ) Status of home-placed children:

No. of No. of Children Children Returned to Programs children not children Staying with restored street Contacted Contacted family Shelters 3932 1181 2704 2658 46 Camps 156 032 124 106 18 Govt. Homes 606 116 490 465 25 TOTAL 4694 1329 (28%) 3318 (100%) 3229 (97%) 89 (3%)

Status of children staying back at home:

Programs Children staying Studying Working Idle with family Shelters 2658 1752 342 564 Camps 106 54 13 39 Govt. Homes 465 177 60 228 Total 3229 (100%) 1983 (61%) 415 (13%) 831 (26) Note: Retention of children with family is 97%.

Anji aged 12 years from Konapuram village, Doragi district of Andhra Pradesh. Anji stay with his Grand Mother and he is studying in 7th std. He didn’t like to going school so he often missed the school. Since he was irregular to school he had lost his confident level and started fearing about the exams. In fear of getting fail in exams he didn’t attempt exams and left home without informing anyone in the home. He was found to Sathi team on Yeshwanthpur railway station. According to child it’s almost 20 horrible days out from home to begging for food, working and roaming around the cities. He was repented and crying about his decision to leave his home but was hopeless to returned back home. Since he didn’t know his

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parents contact number staff had contacted local Police station, it was found that his parents had lodged missing complaints in the same Police station and then parents were contacted. They felt very happy and immediately rushed towards the shelter. They have spent more than Rs.20, 000 to search him and had given advertise in daily news and TV channels and prepared missing templates and distributed to everyone. Also his mother disturbed lot and admitted to the hospital. The father found very happy after seeing his child and expressed gratitude to the Sathi. We did the follow up of the child

and it was found that child is staying with his family happily. SATHI

Likes to stay with grandparents more than parents Aashish a 13-year-old boy had left home because he wasn’t interested in studying and wanted to live independently. He is from a well-to-do family who live in Punjab, while the boy lived with his grandmother in his village. After intensive counselling, the staff realised that the child was attached to his grandparents more than his parents. Though counselling processes and a few days at the shelter home, the staff could see positive changes in his behaviour. After some motivation, he went back to his grandparents’ place though the staff was not very convinced that he would stay back at home for long. In a telephonic follow-up, we came to know that the boy is still in the village and is going to school regularly.

Child runaway again : Prakash, a 15-year-old boy in class IX, met the SATHI staff in Delhi and told them that he had run away from Assam two months ago in search of work. He undertook a three- day journey to Delhi by train and finally was contacted by a stranger on the road who offered him a job. He served tea at an office in Delhi and earned Rs 5000, of which the person who contracted him took Rs 2,500 for food and accommodation. When the SATHI staff found him, they assumed that he wanted to go back home and traced his address. In a telephonic follow-up, the team found out that Prakash had run away again, only 10 days after being home placed. Letters Post home-placement letters are written in some cases to acknowledge the role of people in restoring a child and requesting support or further action, if need be. • Thanks Letters: Letters to thank and appreciate the people who helped the organization for address tracing, supporting for children. In this year we have written 645 letters. • Support Letters: Letters written to concerned people around the child such as Panchayat, teachers, CWC, DCPO, institutions, NGOs, etc. requesting to extend support to the child and address its needs. For e.g. support in the form of educational aid, hostel facility, etc. In this year we have written 487 letters. • Issue Letters: Letters highlighting issues with regard to children and bringing them to the notice of the concerned department. For e.g. Bringingchild labour cases to the notice of Police, Labour Commission, CWC, DCPO, Police, Education Department officials, etc. In this year we have written 78 letters. Responses: We received 4 responses to the letters (3 for Support letters & 1 for Issue letters). Action taken by DCPO and Social Welfare Department on support letter sent by SATHI Shivaraj aged 16 years from Hamapur village of Yadgir district, Karnataka. He had lost his father at very tender age and his mother earns for his family. His family condition is poor. Shivaraj is an intelligent boy but inability of his family to meet the expenses of the bus fair and school

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expenditure made him to drop out from school at 9th. Then he started working. He came to Bangalore for work without knowledge of the parents. SATHI team had rescued him at Yeshwanthpur railway station and he was brought to the shelter. During counselling, he was made aware about the Govt. facilities and importance education and he was sent back to home along with his mother. The team had written letters to DCPO, Social Welfare Department and CWC with requesting for supporting this child. Then after few days team had received call from DCPO and Social Welfare department and they got details of the child and SATHI visited child’ s home and made arrangement for him for BCM hostel. In follow up with child found that he is going to school.

Post Home Placement Support SATHI provides post home-placement support for some needy children, which can result in their retention at home as well as growth or education. This support is given towards education, medical care etc. The need for support is determined by telephonic follow-up and sometimes through a physical home visit. We also try to involve the community around the child viz. teachers, Panchayat members, social workers, etc. to ensure continuity of support to the child. In 2015-16, SATHI has provided post home-placement support for 285 children. Most of this has been in the form of educational support – fees, books, educational material, etc. A budget of approximately 1.8 lakhs has been utilized for the same.

Muskaan, a 13-years old child, who stays in Mayur Vihar, Delhi, was admitted in Nirmal Chhaya Govt. home because left home as her family was unable to bear her education expenses. Her fee was not submitted due to which her teachers asked her to stop coming to school. She was admitted to government children home by police personnel but was restored back home by GCH staff after counselling within one month. It was noted that this girl was in need of financial support for education. After discussion, we decided to provide her education support after a physical home visit. A three-month tuition fees and education support material (Notebooks, Books, Pencil Box Kit, Uniform, and School Bag) was given to her.

44 17th Annual Report 12. DOCUMENTATION PRACTICES SATHI has been following good documentation practices pertaining to all its key functions. The unique aspects of our documentation practices includes • Formats for collecting child profile and information at different stages • Uploading and updating data on a cloud based MIS (Goonjan) • Practice of writing case studies • Video documentation SATHI • Monthly reports and their wide dissemination Formats for collecting child profile and information Over the years, SATHI has created and evolved formats for collecting and recording child information at all stages. From the moment child is contacted on the platform to after it is reunited back to the family, the formats are used to record child information. Some of the important formats used are:

Child rescued on platform Child in Govt. Children Child selected for camp Home / Institution - First contact record / DD - Template to collect basic - Child selection format entry (with copy at GRP/RPF) information of child (Template to collect - Master record (at shelter) - Detailed Profile for child information of child - Detailed Profile for home-placed from selected for camp) Home-placed child institution - Daily progress record of - Counselling sheet - Counselling sheet each child - Handover form (for child - Telephonic follow-up - Detailed Profile for child reunited with parents) formats home-placed from institution - Profile of child referred to - Template for physical institution (in case the child is home-visit - Handover form (for child not home-placed, but reunited with parents) referred) Telephonic follow-up formats - Telephonic follow-up formats - Template for physical home-visit - Template for physical h ome-visit

These documents are in addition to mandatory forms and applications filled when the child is produced before Child Welfare Committee. Goonjan – cloud based MIS Goonjan a software provided by Dhwani Foundation and Sensei Technologies for NGOs to help record, manage and analyse their data on cloud. SATHI has been using Goonjan since 2014 to upload various beneficiary formats – especially profiles of children home-placed from our shelters, Govt. Homes/Institutions and Camps. The user is provided with online formats that mimic the formats filled in hard-copy. These are filled by dedicated data entry personnel in SATHI at various locations. Goonjan provides options for administrative users to monitor the quality of profiles entered by different locations. The data can also be exported into excel and analysed. One of the key features of Goonjan is to allow users to filter parameters for the data that needs to be exported.

45 17th Annual Report In 2015-16, profiles of more than 4000 children helped by SATHI were uploaded in Goonjan Practice of writing case studies / case booklets In addition to the various formats filled with regard to a child, field staff, especially counsellors are encouraged to write case studies of the children they have handled. The cases are written in the form of free running text and contain information such as child’s background, reason for separation, details of SATHI intervention and finally advise given to the child and parents (in case of SATHI restoration). More emphasis is given to writing cases that have been difficult to handle or are unusual. From each location, a minimum of 5 to 6 detailed cases are collected every month along with brief summaries of all cases handled. The cases are part of almost every report that is prepared in SATHI. In addition, brief summaries are sent to donor agencies and other stakeholders A total of 519 cases were prepared in the year. - 406 cases sent to Give India - 14 case booklets (including camp cases) prepared and circulated to variety of stakeholders. l Booklets for children staying for long time in GCH and filed FIR l Booklets containing cases with special efforts on address tracing Video documentation

Video clips are a powerful way of conveying the work of the organization through real stories of children. Since the last few years, SATHI has been laying emphasis on recording video clips of cases that are unusual and have been difficult to handle. The recordings are edited and converted to short films of 3 to 4 minutes max. which try and capture the reasons of child’s separation, child’s experience with SATHI, experience and comments of parents and their emotions. Over the last 1 to 2 years, SATHI personnel have been trained and oriented in video recording, script-writing and even video-editing. Each SATHI location is encouraged to record a minimum of 4 to 5 cases every month. The best ones are then selected for further editing, scripting, voice-over, etc. In 2015-16, total of 115 video cases were made. Some of them have been uploaded to Youtube in SATHIINDIA channel.

Monthly reports and their wide dissemination SATHI has been following another good practice of disseminating the monthly reports of each location to multiple stakeholders, especially local authorities in the Railways, Department of Women and Child Development, Police, partner NGOs, etc. These are brief reports containing highlights of the activities conducted over the month and a list of the names of children helped during the month.

46 17th Annual Report Challenges and way forward We have identified some areas of improvement with regard to our documentation practices: - Improving the quality of case writing, so that it contains all relevant information about the child and the processes/methods used in helping the child: Capacity building programs are planned for the same

- Review of child profile formats to make them more comprehensive; the revised formats would SATHI be simultaneously deployed on the field as well as updated in Goonjan - Improving the website and keeping the content updated with latest developments, new cases, etc.

47 17th Annual Report 13. STUDIES AND ANALYSES Although SATHI and other NGOs have been working in this sector for decades, the question of why children leave home needs to be continuously analysed and updated. This information is needed not only to find the best solutions to the children’s problems, but also to clear myths and public misconceptions if any.

An analysis of 2764 child profiles collected from across SATHI locations in 8 states over the course SATHI of one year (2015-16) by SATHI reveals the following How old are these children? Most children who have left home are in the age group of 13 to 16. Out of 2764 children, whose profiles were analysed 71% of the children were in this age group. The following table gives the distribution of children against age range.

Age group % of children Less than / equals 8 years 1% 9 to 12 years 19% 13 to 16 years 71% Above 16 years 9%

From this distribution, it may be inferred that the age of adolescence coincides with the tendency to leave home. These children may be rudimentarily categorized as Runaway, Neglected, Missing or lost, Children who came to work, abducted & others. 94% of the children are either runaway or children who have come for work. Number of times that the children have left home The analysis of profiles reveals that a majority (85%) of the children have left home for the first time while 9% of the children have left home the second time. This is very significant in two ways. Firstly, the popular perception that children who leave home are habitual runaways or are addicted to street life is proven to be false. Secondly, addressing the issues of a first-time runaway child is easier and the entire process of repatriation is shorter.

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The sooner an unaccompanied child is contacted by an organisation and helped, the better are the chances of reuniting the child with its family. From the profiles of children who were successfully reunited with their families, it is found that 82% were those who had spent 10 or lesser days out of home. It is easier to help a child who has left home for the first time. Likewise, it is easier to help a child if the number of days spent on the platform or street is lesser. The longer a child stays out, the more are the risks of exposure to exploitation, substance abuse, health problems, etc. Family conditions There is also a popular perception that runaway children come from families that are broken, abusive, etc. Contrary to this perception, our data shows that majority of the children come from normal families and have parents. While problems such as poverty, alcoholism in the family, dysfunctional families do exist, the analysis shows that these are in lesser proportions. For instance,  86% of the children have functional families  Only 2% of the children are orphans  3% of children have presence of step-parent in the family Further analysis shows that while 95% of the children are from settled families and less than 2% of the children come from migrant families. Information available of the rest of the families is not conclusive. Reasons for leaving home The most common reasons for separation of children from families are classified as City Attrac- tion, Peer Influence, Work / related issues, Family Problems, Education related & others. From the data analysed, work related issues and city attraction were found to be the top reasons that have prompted children to leave home.

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7% 5% 26%28% 17% SATHI

17% 28%26%

Are there any linkages between age of the children and their reason for separation? Some patterns can be observed in the reasons for separation and the age group. City attraction remains the top reason for children to run away in the age groups 8 to 10 and 11 to 13, whereas work related issues become the top reason among older children (age-group of 14 to 16) Age group Most common reason 8 to 10 City attraction (31%) 11 to 13 City attraction (31%) 14 to 16 Work related (33%)

attraction has a downward trend in the older children. The following graph illustrates the same.

Further, children separated due to work related issues constitute 28% of the entire sample analysed. Among these 63% are in the age group of 14 to 16.

50 17th Annual Report What is presented above is a cursory analysis and SATHI strongly recommends that practitioners in this sector must partner with research institutions for deeper analysis on these questions. SATHI is open and willing to engage in such partnerships. Unusual reasons We have also come across a few children whose reasons for separation were unusual. The families of all these children were contacted and they have been reunited with their parents / guardians. SATHI

 15 year old Bimal Yadav, contacted at Mughalsarai railway station told that he saw a spiritual video and inspired so he decide to leave home in search of goal of life.  14 year old Ali, rescued from Varanasi Cantt. Railway station said that he was seen talking to a girl by his family members. Out of fear of being reprimanded, he left home informing anyone.  14 year old Ahmed, also from Mughalsarai was fond of bikes. He said that for this purpose, he stole Rs. 28,000/- from his father and ran away  16 year old Aman Kumar from Delhi accidentally burnt vegetables while cooking and he was rebuked by his brother. As a result, he decided to run away from home  15 year old Bharat, studying in 10th standard wanted to go on an educational trip, but his parents did not have the money. So he came to Bangalore to meet his brother and take his help, but neither had his contact information or location details  12 year old Krishna belonging to Maharajganj, Uttar Pradesh was rescued in Old Delhi said that he was abducted by a man who brought and left him there  16 year old Kuldeep, who was rescued from New Delhi belongs to Kannauj in UP. He stated that two persons kidnapped him, brought him to Saharanpur and sold him. He managed to run away from the work place before landing in SATHI’s net

Other studies undertaken 1. Documentation of cases and assessment of reasons behind children leaving home By Shwetha M, Tata Dhan Academy, under the guidance of Mr. Pramod Kulkarni Overview There are many reasons that induce children into running away from home. While the reasons are recorded in the field to some extent, a systematic assessment and categorization of reasons is lacking. This study was undertaken with the objective of documenting reasons for children to runaway and their assessment using pre-determined dimensions. A sample of 63 cases of children helped by SATHI in Bangalore, Varanasi and Mughalsarai was chosen for the study. In addition to studying the case histories, the researcher collected details from the counsellors who had handled the case and interacted with the children and their parents as well. The six dimensions appliedwere clarity of reason, complexity of the case, functionality of family (functional or dysfunctional), duration of build-up of the reason to runaway, who is primarily responsible and whether the solution offered is feasible or not.

51 17th Annual Report Results Classification of reasons of children to run away from home for the study sample (63 children) is given in the below table. Broad classification Classifications No % Total %

Family Scolding / harassment 11 17 SATHI Poverty / Financial issue 9 14 41% Alcoholic parent 2 3 Broken family 4 6 Education Unsupportive family 4 6 Harassment at hostel 7 11 Harassment at school 2 3 37% Poor performance / learning 5 8 difficulty Not interested 5 8 City attraction Self-motivated 7 11 Peer influence 5 8 22% Harassment at work place 2 3 Total 63 100% 100%

Subsequent to applying the dimensions mentioned above, the following was surmised. - In 87% cases, reasons were clear. These include scolding from parents, teachers, children leaving home for work, city attraction etc. In remaining 13%, reasons are difficult to pinpoint and include those that have accumulated over a period of time. - In 76% of the case, reasons are simple. These reasons are similar to the above – such as scolding and hurt felt by the child. There are no multiple layers of reasons and can be addressed easily. - 48% of the children come from functional families – these are families who have good economical condition and a good environment for the child. In 52% families, there was incidence of alcoholism, poverty, separation of parents, etc. - In 15% cases, reasons are complex. These also include cases where reasons have accumulated over a period of time. For instance there was a child was not interested in studies, but could not express that freely. When he scored low marks, he was scolded and pressurized by his father. He eventually fell into bad company and started bunking classes. Then one particular occasion of scolding became the trigger for him to run away. The study had limitations in terms of the small sample size and difficulty in getting complete information from remote locations. However, the study and its methodology is being considered by SATHI as a base to build on and assess up to 500 cases using similar dimensions.

52 17th Annual Report 2. Comparative study of Integrated Child Protection Scheme in Karnataka and Maharashtra By Harsh Takur, Institute of Rural Management, Anand Overview & methodology

ICPS is an umbrella scheme for child protection and care. It aims at strengthening the Juvenile SATHI Justice System by securing the safety of children especially of juvenile in conflict with law, children in need of care and protection and other vulnerable children. It is a huge scheme comprising of various programmes, activities and provisions under its purview. Since ICPS is implemented in almost all the districts of Karnataka and Maharashtra, it was difficult to cover all of its aspects in all the districts of both the states. So to maintain the depth and quality of the study, open shelter programme of ICPS, Child Line and closeness to JJB Act were studied. The objectives of the study were: 1. To understand the status of implementation of Integrated Child Protection Scheme in Karnataka and Maharashtra. 2. To identify the best practices of ICPS from the states. 3. To find out major challenges in the implementation. 4. To identify the coordination between various agencies and stakeholders involved. The methodology for the study was primarily qualitative and semi-structured interviews were conducted with various stakeholders along with the observations. The study was also supported by the data obtained from Government institutions, NGOs and previous studies. Results It was found that there is a good coordination between Child Welfare Committees and NGOs but coordination between the NGOs is on rare cases. Also frequent transfer of Government Officers appointed for the scheme is hampering the smooth functioning of the scheme. There is a big gap in coordination between different states regarding the activities under the scheme. Since the scheme is being implemented through ‘social service outsourcing’, turnover of staff is another main issue. ICPS is doing well in some districts and NGOs are working in good coordination with other stakeholders but it needs improvement for better implementation. Top down approach of ICPS is a major challenge for carrying out successful implementation. All the activities under ICPS are guided by Central or State Government and these activities are not specific to target areas. There are some loopholes in understanding of the Act by the authorities as well as NGOs. It hinders the proper implementation of the programme. A common platform needs to be developed on state as well as national level for knowledge sharing and take to decisions in the best interest of a child. More awareness needs to be created amongst the stakeholders regarding the provisions laid under ICPS and Juvenile Justice Act and to maintain the competition-control continuum.

53 17th Annual Report 3. Stories of ‘Home-Coming’-An study to measure adjustment of the child with family and society after home placement by Mr.Vasudev Sharma In the last two decades Sathi has developed a well-documented process while refining the methodology on the basis of field experiences, theoretical inputs and also in tune with the laws and changing systems. Now, Sathi has taken an assignment internally to identify a set of home placed SATHI children and write the stories of Home Coming to be used with Govt., groups, families, and also in capacity building of the personnel working with children in Govt homes across the country. The current set of stories are from in and around New Delhi and most of these home placed children are from the three Govt. Homes in Delhi – Mayur Vihar; Nirmal Chhaya and Asha Kiran. General Findings • Most children I visited are well settled with their families. • No where I found any kind of social stigmatization on the issue of child running away or missing and coming back. [am a bit confused, is it the social order or people just accept the fact. May be in most of the cases it is a boy, people make no fuss about it, but even in the case of girls I did not see any difference]. • There are three incidents in which children have repeatedly gone out, but have either managed to come back on their own or have been coordinated by police or other NGOs who now know about them. • Most families (6 out of 10) are in an impoverished situation. • Some families need other social security scheme help and needs to be connected to such projects. • Providing student/child support is a good idea, but I felt you need to see at the needs of other significant child members of the family too. • Follow up with the families need to be streamlined and systematized (sometimes the families are not clear who is this Sathi person calling them!) • Greater attention is required to educate the families and their neighbourhood on the process of family placement. • More investment is needed in systematizing the process, more staff, follow up and documentation. • The process has to be replicated in other locations too while connecting with all homes (govt. and non govt.) in relocating the children and uphold the spirit of Juvenile Justice.

54 17th Annual Report 14. ADVOCACY & NETWORKING – EFFORTS & EVENTS In terms of advocacy with the state, SATHI’s focus remains two-fold: The first is to ensure that there are mechanisms at all major railway stations in India to track and rescue separated, missing and runaway children so that they can be protected and reunited back with their families; and

The second is to extend and maximise the benefits of existing programs under the Child Protection SATHI schemes to railway children viz. extending Open Shelters under Integrated Child Protection Scheme to specifically cover railway children. In addition, SATHI is keen to continue contributing to the debates and deliberations on the issues of these children, the best ways to address them, bring more clarity in the terms used, etc. based on authentic field evidence and practices. Toward this, we have had opportunities in the last year to participate in events and present our points and perspectives.

Date & Place Event Particulars May 2015, Delhi Knowledge sharing workshop organized by Railway Children UK SATHI participated in a knowledge sharing workshop with participants that included organizations working in the sector, particularly existing and potential partners of Railway Children, academicians and others. The workshop saw a sharing of the key issues of runaway children, good practices among other organizations, health issues of children and impact assessment. A vulnerability assessment tool was also shared among partner organizations, a tool that helps in understanding the levels of vulnerability that a child is experiencing. There was also a sharing on the research undertaken by Railway Children along with various partners on family reunification and reintegration, in which SATHI has also contributed with field data collection. August 2015, Juvenile Justice Committee Meeting, Lucknow Lucknow SATHI attended the Juvenile Justice Committee meeting held in Lucknow which was chaired by Justice Sudhir Kumar Saxena. The other important participants included Ms. Renuka Kumar, Principal Secretary, Justice (retd.) Vikram Nath, member of JJC, Mr. Sudhir Rai, State Coordinator ICPS and IG, Lucknow along with representatives of many NGOs. The meeting focussed on implementation of JJ Act, the budget for the year, status of Govt. Children Homes including infrastructure and standards of care. From SATHI, we spoke briefly about our work and suggestions on improving quality of care in Govt. Homes, including introducing incentives for the most improved home, etc. SATHI’s work in Mughalsarai was acknowledged and appreciated in the meeting.

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August 2015, Delhi Meeting on Social Audit and other issues in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act, 2000 This meeting was held to deliberate on the various issues in the implementation of the Act including (i) social audit under section 36 of the Act (ii) constitution and functioning of advisory boards under section 62 of the Act (iii) SOP on missing children (iv) Child care plan; and (v) recommendations of the working Group Report on Child Rights for the SATHI Twelfth Five Year Plan. The participants for the meeting included: Mr. V Somasundaran, Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Mr. Ashi Kapoor, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Mr. Dinesh Paul, Director NIPCCD, Ms. Harleen Walia, Deputy Director, Childline India Foundation, Ms. Rashmi Saxena Sahni, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ms. Mohua Nigudkar, Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and other representatives from the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Home Affairs (NCRB & Anti Human Trafficking set up), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, State Governments, civil society organizations, academia, institutions and experts. The draft social audit formats prepared by the Social Audit Committee for various institutions under the Act, viz Child welfare Committees, Juvenile Justice Boards, Child Care Institutions etc. were shared in the meeting. There were discussions on the process of conducting social audit as well as the focus areas in the draft formats, who would conduct the Social Audits and the potential challenges. Among other discussions, the need for training officials in handling KhoyaPayaand Track Child portals was discussed. There was also a presentation on SOP drafted by TISS for tracing missing children including its need and background and the need to integrate the SOPs for Railways and Childline into a comprehensive document.

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October 2015, Patna Juvenile Justice Committee meeting chaired by Justice V N Sinha SATHI was invited to participate in the JJ Committee meeting held on 5th of October at the Judges’ Lounge, Patna High Court. The meeting was chaired by Justice V N Sinha and participants included Secretary, Department of Social Welfare, DRM Danapur Division, Director of Social Welfare Department and representatives from Judiciary, Legal Services Authority, SATHI Railways and NGOs working in the sector. In the meeting, SATHI circulated a note on the situation of children at railway stations in Bihar and a brief about the work done so far. The issues of runaway and homeless children and vulnerable locations in Bihar were also discussed. Justice Sinha stressed on the need for taking specific action for children on railway platforms and directed that a more detailed meeting be held as soon as possible. Following this, Mr. S M Raju, Secretary of Department of Social Welfare called for a meeting the very next day and outlined a plan to strengthen the outreach at railway stations. 4 locations were identified where Open Shelters would be started close to railway stations and actions to build more awareness among general public, etc. were discussed. The actions were however expected to roll out only after the Assembly elections in Bihar. January 2016, Delhi Presentation on Good Practice Model “Care and Protection of Street Children” The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and Save the Children conducted a meeting of various stakeholders on Presentation on Good Practice Model “Care and Protection of Street Children”. The organizations invited for the presentation included SUPPORT, Vatsalya, Sanlaap, Protsahan, SATHI and Rainbow Foundation. SATHI’s presentation touched upon the good practices followed with re- gard to outreach, restoration, camp model, intervention in Govt. Children Homes, follow-up, MIS & documentation. We highlighted that about 200 children could be helped per outreach worker in a year and that more than 80% of the children spend less than 6 days in the shelter before being reu- nited with parents. NCPCR and Save the Children are expected to collate the presentations and bring out a document the good practice model on “Care and Protection of Street Children”

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February 2016, Workshop to develop a ‘comprehensive intervention framework’ with Delhi/Gurgaon children at and around railways Recognizing that the issues of children connected with railways are vast and serious, Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives (APPI) has formulated a strategy to support organizations working on this issue so as to scale and sustain the impact of the work on this issue. Further, APPI along with Railway Children UK, organized a workshop amongst selected organisations to SATHI develop a ‘comprehensive intervention framework’ with children at and around railways. The ultimate aim of the workshop was to be a starting point of a process to achieve a scaled and sustainable impact in the lives of children and raising the profile of the issue at national level.

A concept note on the intervention framework was also circulated before the workshop to which SATHI had given a detailed feedback. APPI must be appreciated for taking the initiative and preparing a note that touched upon the real issues, possible solutions as well as existing limitations. SATHI had in its feedback highlighted that a convergence approach should be employed and that some practices in outreach and care of children could be standardized. We should also recognize the efforts of Ministry of Women and Child Development and Childline India Foundation and join forces with them. Further to the workshop, APPI will spend more time with individual organizations to understand and plan the scale-up of activities. February 2016, Regional consultation for developing the Standard Operating Procedure for Lucknow Care, Protection and Rehabilitation of Street Children Save the Children has embarked on the process of developing a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Care, Protection and Rehabilitation of Street Children in India in consultation with NCPCR (National Commission for Protection of Child Rights). As part of this process, ‘Regional Consultations’ were planned and held in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Patna and Lucknow. SATHI attended the consultation in Lucknow and gave inputs on its project experience, concerns and practices on separated and runaway children. Along with the consultative workshop, a team comprising Ms. Asha Das (Ex-Secretary, MoSJE and MWCD); Member, NCPCR; Save the Children (Ms. Bidisha Pillai, Director ACC, Mr. Sreedhar Mether and Ms. Stephnie) visited SATHI Mughalsarai project on 24th February. During their visit, they interacted with children and staff at our shelter. The following day, they visited Ramnagar Govt. Home, wherein they participated in the process of reuniting some children with their parents.

58 17th Annual Report Other Highlights SATHI is nominated as an advisory organization by Juvenile Justice Committee, Uttar Pradesh SATHI has maximum presence in Uttar Pradesh state and in the year we have worked at 6 locations. We have also received good cooperation from the state officials including Ms. Renuka Kumar,

Principal Secretary, Dept. of Women and Child Development. Further, SATHI was nominated as an SATHI advisory organization to the Juvenile Justice Committee in Uttar Pradesh. Apprising Honourable Justice Madan B Lokur on issues of separated children Honourable Justice Madan B Lokur, Supreme Court of India is part of a special 2-judge “Social Justice Bench” which will look into issues of children, women, homeless, welfare schemes of poor families, etc. He has been instrumental in making the Honourable Supreme Court take proactive measures and ensuring that Juvenile Justice Act is implemented in letter and spirit. Meetings with Department of Social Welfare, Govt. of West Bengal In October 2015, SATHI representatives had a series of meetings with officials of the Department of Social Welfare, Govt. of West Bengal including Ms. Roshini Sen, Secretary Woman and Child Development and Social Welfare, Ms. Richa Mishra, Director, Department of Child Rights and Traffickingand others. We highlighted the work done by SATHI staff in the Govt. Homes of Kolkata and North 24 Pgs and our plans to extend our work of rescuing children at railway stations in West Bengal. Subsequently, we have started work at Sealdah railway station in collaboration with CINI and also requested for permissions to work in other Govt. Homes in West Bengal. Applications for Open Shelters under Integrated Child Protection Scheme SATHI had applied for Open Shelters under ICPS in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Bihar. Of these applications, we have received grants for starting Open Shelter in Delhi and Kanpur. Further, we have received official approval to start Open Shelter in Darbhanga, Bihar and Varanasi, UP.

59 17th Annual Report 15. COLLABORATIONS SATHI as an organization has a long history of successful collaborations with other NGOs working in the sector. Till date, SATHI has partnered with more than 40 organizations over a period of two decades. Collaborations and partnerships have helped in more number of children being helped, better utilization of resources, sharing of good practices, spreading awareness and more effective advocacy on the issue of runaway children. In the last financial year, SATHI has formally collaborated with seven organizations at different locations. SATHI

Location Partner organization & nature of collaboration No. of beneficiaries Salaam Baalak Trust (SBT) 284 children SBT is an Indian non-profit organization founded in 1988 brought to Open working with street and working children in Delhi. The shelter main activities of SBT include providing care and shelter to 310 children vulnerable children, education including informal and open brought to DMRC education, life-skills), repatriation and counselling among Home, Tees Hazari others. SATHI has a long history of working with SBT and has (July 2015 to March worked on rescuing and restoring children. SBT runs an 2016) Open Shelter near Old Delhi Railway station, where SATHI has transferred children rescued from the station. SBT is also the official partner of Childline at Old Delhi Railway station and works along with SATHI on rescuing missing and runaway children from the station. SBT also has full care residential centre for boys (DMRC home) near Tees Hazari Metro Station, Delhi. SATHI has been referring children rescued from New Delhi Railway Delhi Station to DMRC home. Society for Promotion of Youth and Masses (SPYM) 292 children SPYM is a non-profit working in Delhi working on health rescued and issues, especially prevention of drug abuse and towards transferred from increasing the abilities of the disadvantaged sections of the Old Delhi society. Railway Station SATHI referred children rescued from Old Delhi Railway Station to a shelter-home operated by SPYM in Fatehpuri, (April 2015 to Delhi. Children were even counselled and reunited with their September 2016) families from this shelter by SATHI staff. Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre Prayas is an NGO working towards the protection of 28 children neglected juveniles and providing them with care, training and rescued and counselling. SATHI has a long association with Prayas and had transferred from been using the children’s shelter run by the organization. New Delhi Railway Station (April 2015)

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Berhampur, Society for Children (SOCH) Odisha SOCH has been working with children who are lost, have run away or are missing from their homes in Bhubaneswar, Khurda and Berhampur Railway Stations since 2012. SOCH was founded by Manoj Kumar Swain, who worked with SATHI for two years before he was inspired to start on his own. 202 children SATHI SATHI has been providing financial and technical support (November 2015 to to SOCH since the last 2 years. In 2015-16, SATHI extended March 2016) the collaboration to Berhampur, where a joint team conducts rescue of children, counselling and makes efforts towards their reunification. Vijayawada, Street Kids Community Village - SKCV Children’s Trust Andhra SKCV, started originally in Bombay in 1984, is a non- Pradesh sectarian, non-profit, registered Charitable Trust based in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. Through its work, it231 children aims at improving the fate of abused and/or abandoned (January to March children who have no other place to go to. SKCV’s work is 2016) concentrated in 3 shelters SKCV provides shelter facility for children rescued by SATHI from Vijayawada Junction. SATHI counsellors Hyderabad, Asritha Telangana Asritha is a Hyderabad based NGO working with distressed and runaway children living in the streets and slums of 230 children Hyderabad and Secunderabad. The organization counselled & 110 provides residential and educational support in a loving and (78 boys & 32 girls) caring environment to create a sense of safety for the children reunited with in the homes. Asritha runs a Rainbow Home in Hyderabad in families in 2015-16 partnership with Rainbow Foundation India. SATHI has been working with Asritha since April 2014 and have conducted rescue drives on railway platforms collaboratively. Additionally, SATHI is supporting one staff to work on rehabilitation of children in the Government Children’s Homes located in Hyderabad. Sealdah, Child in Need Institute (CINI) Kolkata CINI is a reputed NGO working in the sectors of health, nutrition, education and protection for more than four 433 children decades in West Bengal. rescued (48 children in SATHI collaborated with CINI for a 10 day survey of September 2015 children arriving at Sealdah Railway Station in and 385 children September 2015. From November 2016 onwards, SATHI started from November regular joint outreach work with CINI at Sealdah. There are 2 2015 to March children’s shelters within the premises of Sealdah Railway Station 2016) operated by CINI, where rescued children are taken for counselling and further action.

61 17th Annual Report 16. SATHI IN MEDIA Feature articles in international media Two feature articles, both written by Ms. Amrit Dhillon appeared in the Straits Times, Singapore and South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. In both the articles, the writer has explored a day in the lives of runaway and separated children contacted on railway platforms at Delhi, SATHI’s interventions and potential risks that the children face, if left to themselves. SATHI

The full article may be accessed online at: http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/ article/1892363/-runaways-and-charities-saving-them-abuse

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India’s railway children SATHI

The article may be accessed online at:http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia /indias-railway-children, A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on January 17, 2016, with the headline 'India's railway children'

63 17th Annual Report 17. GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION Organization Policies At SATHI, we are conscious of the fact that we work on sensitive issues of rescue, protection and rehabilitation of missing or runaway children and that we have to manage our expenditures with utmost responsibility. At the same time, we believe in having a friendly and progressive work

environment where all staff functions with dedication and mutual respect. In order to function SATHI smoothly, safeguard against untoward incidents and for conflict resolution, SATHI has adopted certain policies and has operationalized the same. These include: i. Child Protection Policy ii. Guidelines for Financial Management iii. Purchase Policy iv. Human Resources Policy v. Sexual harassment at workplace (Prevention and Redressal) Policy All the project staffs across locations dealing directly with children are trained on the Child Protection Policy to ensure that the children staying at SATHI shelters do not face any form of abuse or harassment. Similarly, all Program Officers, Accounts and Administrative staff are trained on the financial standards that need to be adhered to and the related policies. Statutory Compliance & Reporting SATHI adheres to the statutory compliances of filing of FC-3 in the Ministry of Home Affairs and filing of Audit Report for Income Tax along with renewal of the Society status as per norms laid down by the Government of India. SATHI also keeps its financial statements open to scrutiny by independent program evaluators, existing grant making agencies as well as prospective donors. SATHI also ensures that the reports of its activities reach the concerned Government Departments, which includes Women and Child Development, Railways and Police among others on a monthly basis. Education support – a special feature of SATHI’s HR Policy SATHI firmly believes that the growth of individuals is undeniably linked with the growth of the organization and towards this has a very liberal policy of supporting its staff who wishes to pursue higher education. SATHI provides financial support to the staff in terms of bearing a portion of the course fees and related expenses and has in place a leave policy that is considerate about study and examination leaves. With the support of SATHI, 14 of its staff members had enrolled to various academic programs across India in 2015-16. 3 staffs are pursuing Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management • Ashish Srivastava, Co-ordinator, Pune • Kamlesh Pandey, Program Officer, Delhi - only Travel & Accommodation support • Niranjan Upadhyaya, Accountant, Bangalore - Only Travel & Accommodation support

64 17th Annual Report 3 staffs are pursuing their Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Commerce • Shivakumar, City Co-ordinator, Vijayawada –BCom. Yashaswini College, Shahapur, Yadagiri, Gulbarga University • Md. Abrar, City Co-ordinator – BA, KaashiVidhyaPeet, Mahatma Gandhi University, Varanasi • Radha, Counsellor, Delhi

3 staffs are pursuing Masters in Social Work SATHI • Rajesh Kumar Saini – Sam HaggingBotom Institute, Lucknow • Mouneshwar Koner, MIS Officer, Bangalore - Sri Sai Prasad College Of Social Work (MSW), Kalaburgi, Karnataka • Manisha Devi 5 staffs are undergoing programs in Computer Education and English speaking course • Shiva Kumar, Delta Computer Institute, Mathikere, Bangalore • Jyothi Bai, Counsellor, Bangalore – Veta Spoken Classes, Bangalore • Mouneshwar Koner, MIS Officer, Bangalore –Spoken Classes, Bangalore • Sadanand Kashinath - Delta Computer Institute, Mathikere, Bangalore • Veersh - Delta Computer Institute, Mathikere, Bangalore 1 staff Mouneshwar Koner, MIS Officer, Bangalore is taking classes in video editing (FCP) at Rajajinagar, Bangalore • Staff Training: We are regularly organizing trainings on Child Centered Perspective, Counseling and Various Approaches for rehabilitation of Children, Trainings on communication, presentation skill, stress management, project management, meditation, fund raising.

Sl No. Training Name and Resource Person # of staff attended 1 Training on Leadership and Team work - Mr. Ulhas 17 Vairagkar 2 Samyak Workshop - Smt.Srabuni and Mr. Shovik, RC 02 3 ISABS Training on Human Behaviour - Ms. Archana 02 Srivastava 4 Training for C&D Group on Parenting - Mr. Praveen Kaki 06 Superintendent Alipur Home 5 Training on Communication & presentation 15 skill - Mr. Ulhas Vairagkar 6 Staff Orientation Training Program SATHI Internal Policy 80 and JJ Act– Mr.Basavaraj Shali and Team 7 Training for C&D Group on Parenting - Ms. Sunita Tirkey 04 8 Based on different topics as Outreaching, J.J Act, MIS, Child 10 Counselling - Mr. B.B.L Srivastava 9 Reporting and MIS System - Mr.Divesh Sahu, Save the 10 Children

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10 Counselling Training - BHU-Varanasi 20 11 Attended 6 days workshop ISAAB -training at Bhopal and 08 also at Bangalore 12 Attended 3 days workshop on Human Resource 3 Management in Social sector at Bangalore. 13 Staffs attended POCSO (Prevention of Children against 9 SATHI Sexual Offence) Act training at Delhi.

• Staff Appraisal Staff appraisal was conducted in July 2015 in all the locations. The evaluations were conducted by both senior SATHI staff and external resources. Annual General Body Meeting SATHI’s Annual General Body Meeting was held on May 29, 2015 at Bangalore. The meeting was attended by Governing Board members and invitees for the meeting included Mr Rajeev Dar, Social Worker & Director of ISAT and Mr. Chidambar Chikkerur from M/s HR Koppar and Co. Mr. Alok Bajpai and Mr.Ulhas Vairagkhar were absent from the meeting and had expressed their difficulty to continue as board members due to other commitment. The board accepted their request to step down from the board and thanked them for their services to Sathi. Mr. Rajeev Dar, Former member had sent his nomination to be a member of the Society which was unanimously accepted in the meeting. In addition to the above, the Audit Report was submitted to all the members and the financial statements for the annual filing of returns to Registrar of Societies were approved by the board along with the appointment of Mr. Chidambar Chikkerur (Partner at M/s HR Koppar & Co) as auditor

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Date of the Place of the Member Major issues discussed meeting meeting held attended May 29, 2015 Bangalore 7 Work done, Status of the Accounts System in SATHI and achievements of the year gone by (2014-15), discussion on expanding the work of SATHI and helping more children, mobilizing more resources October 30, 2015 Bangalore 6 Mr . Vinod Furtado, an advocate, joined SATHI board, resolution passed to open a new Bank account in Varanasi for Tata Trust funding December 15, Bangalore 6 An update on the activities of SATHI since the 2015 previous Governing Board meeting was discussed, Board appreciated and congratulated to Founder of SATHI Mr. Pramod Kulkarni for the National Award for Child Welfare, 2014 by the MWCD January 24, 2016 Bangalore 4 Updated development of the activities, New location working, Status of budget and plan for the year discussed.

Core Group Meeting SATHI’s core group comprises senior staff and program officers from all locations who bear the key responsibility of leading and implementing all the organization’s activity plans and budget. Core group meets after the completion every quarter but we could conduct only two meetings during this annual year due to various reasons. The first core group meeting of this year was held between July 13, 2015 and July 15, 2015. Each program officer presented their location highlights and their

67 17th Annual Report next quarter plan. There was a discussion on standard guidelines for all basic functions of SATHI, expansion, overview of SATHI’s expansion in 2015-16 and financial situation among other regular discussions. The second Core Group Meeting of SATHI was conducted between October 20, 2015 and October 23, 2015 at Bangalore. Along with the work presentation of each location, there were discussions about the quality of child profile and orientation training for new staff. A presentation of studies assigned to staff which was moderated also happened and Mrs.Lalitha Iyer, Chairperson, SATHI, SATHI gave her inputs on the same.

68 17th Annual Report 18. FUNDING PARTNERS The year 2015-16 has been a very positive year for SATHI in terms of funding. As a result of major grants received this year, SATHI has been able to more than double the geographical coverage and also double the number of children helped over the last year. We see this as beneficial to the sector and not just the organization. It is significant that the issue of railway children has caught the attention of grant making agencies at a time when the Ministries SATHI of Women and Child Development as well as Railways are also taking initiatives for separated and runaway children. Other than our funding partners we have also received a handsome amount through individual donations. The prominent names are Mr. Gaurav Taneja from Delhi, Dr .MadhuVannati from Darbhanga, Karnataka, Mrs. Nirmala Murthy from Bangalore, Mr.Sumit Bose from Delhi, Mr. Nagraj from Bangalore, Mrs. Anuradha Mitra from Delhi, Mr.Suraj Kumar from Kanpur and others. We are highly thankful to all these donors for their generous support to the cause. Details of SATHI’s funding partners and funds received in the period April 2015 to March 2016:

Sl. Funding Partners Amount received Project description and geography No. in FY 2015-16 (Rs. in lakhs) 1 Save the Children 48.99 Rescue and restoration of railway children from Mughalsarai, UP 2 50 Rescue and restoration of railway children from all SATHI locations Improvement of Information Technology & Communication infrastructure; capacity building of staff 3 Railway Children 32.29 Enhancing restoration, counselling, vocational training and life-skills improvement process of children at Govt. Homes in Delhi 4 GiveIndia (Foreign 6.87 Rescue and restoration of children from and Non Foreign Shelter, Govt. Home and through camp from Contributions) SATHI locations (part amount) 5 Sir Dorabji Tata 107.03 Rescue and restoration of railway children and Trust Govt. Home children from Varanasi, Allahabad, Raipur, Vishakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Berhampur 6 AzimPremji 75.16 Rescue and Restoration of Railway Children in Philanthropic Kanpur, Patna and Kolkata Initiatives 7 Azim Premji 35 Rescue and restoration of children from New Foundation Delhi Railway station

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8 Ernst and Young 15 Counselling and restoration of children from Foundation 10 Govt. Homes for Boy’s and Girl’s Homes Mumbai, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Chhattisgarh and Lucknow Rescue, Protection and Restoration of Children found on Railway Platforms in Delhi

9 ICPS – 4.33 Rescue and restoration of runaway and missing SATHI Maharashtra children at Pune 10 ICPS – Karnataka 10.72 Rescue and restoration of runaway and missing children at Yeshwanthpur, Bangalore 11 ICPS –Delhi 9.93 Rescue and restoration of runaway and missing children at New Delhi Grand Total 395.32 Analysis of the cost to help a child: In the last year total amount incurred was Rs 3.04 crores. With this amount, we were able to help 7636 children from various locations and interventions of SATHI. The total expenditure divided by the number of children gives us the figure of cost incurred per child. The chart shows the details of cost per child incurred in the last three years.

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70 17th Annual Report 19. LOOKING AHEAD – OUTLOOK FOR 2016-17

Over the last one and a half year, SATHI has seen expansion of its team size and activities thanks to increased funding. However, SATHI would continue its preference for collaboration with local organizations in any new location for optimising the resources utilized and leverage their presence for local level advocacy and networking.

On the other hand, we acknowledge we now have the opportunity, scope and freedom to focus SATHI on qualitative aspects of our functioning, improve the level of documentation and advocate at the national level using our national presence as a basis. Towards this, we seek to bring some changes within the organization. These include: 1. Revamping the organization structure: We have conceived restructuring the organization to make it more decentralized and encourage interaction of locations that are located close to each other. SATHI would be working in 11 states and a group of states would form a cluster. There would be 5 clusters in all, viz. o Delhi o Uttar Pradesh & Chattisgarh o Bihar, West Bengal Assam o Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana o Karnataka & Maharashtra Each cluster would be led by a Program Officer supported by City Coordinators at each location. The Program Officers would also have advocacy and quality monitoring related responsibilities. Reaching 10,000 children in collaboration effort with local NGO’s / Railway Childline. 2. Focus on studies and documentation: Several studies on the issues in the sector are planned on topics such as reasons for running away, counselling techniques and their effectiveness, categorization of children who need different levels of intervention, review of decision making criteria, etc. All these studies would be based on real data of children that we work with. The profiles of the children collected as part of the regular work would also serve as a large database for analysis and inference. A dedicated team led by a coordinator and selected staff, who have been handling counselling and documentation at different clusters, would have the responsibility of executing these studies. Importantly, we would also like to focus on ensuring that our reports, cases, video-clips are widely disseminated using offline and online channels. 3. New approach to working in Govt. Homes: The new approach of working in Govt. Homes mainly features conducting activities as a group for short periods of time with particular focus on children who are out of home for long duration and not in contact with family. The approach would also ensure that we do not restrict our work to select Govt. Homes, but extend it to as many homes in a particular state as possible. The reports of the programs would also be compiled and disseminated to state level officials. The advantages of this lie in more children being helped in a short period of time and avenues for state level advocacy on improving conditions at the home and sensitization & capacity building of GCH staff. In the initial year, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra would be the states where such interventions are planned to be carried out.

71 17th Annual Report 4. Working with Ministry of Women and Child Development andChildline India Foundation: SATHI recognizes and appreciates the important initiative of starting dedicated Railway Childlines in 20 locations across India. The number of locations is set to expand and since there is a lot of commonality in the objectives of SATHI as an organization and the Railway Childline initiative, we would explore ways of working with the Ministry of Women and Child Development and Childline India Foundation.

5. National Mobile Outreach team: The National Mobile Outreach team is an independent team SATHI of about 10 members who would be focusing on the task of conducting outreach activities across major railway stations in India. The team would generate reports on the actual inflow of children at different locations, which would be disseminated at state and national levels. 6. Leveraging technology for efficiency and monitoring: We are also planning to use technology to boost internal communication within the organization. We are using SKYPE for internal communication which has enabled us doing strong monitoring. We are planning to give android phones to our outreach workers with an app which will help them to fill the first case record on the spot (where the child has been rescued). Our Goonjan software which is used to keep the full information of a child will be modified with more analyzable questions and will be used more effectively. Lastly, it would be appropriate to say that SATHI is going through an important phase in its organizational history, and our efforts should be in the direction of strengthening the child protection sector as a whole. It is the organization’s commitment to all supporters, funding agencies, Govt. officials and other NGOs that we are partnering or associating with. We are hopeful and confident that we would do justice to our present position.

72 17th Annual Report Annexure # 1 THE TABLE SHOWS # CHILDREN RESCUED / REFEREED TO SATHI & NGOs SHELTERs, CHILD LINE & GCH IN THE YEAR 2015 -16

No. of children rescued by #of children # of children Sl. Total referred to brought to

Location SATHI GRP, SATHI No Others Rescued Child line SATHI Staff RPF /NGOs / GCH shelter 1 Delhi 1656 1 3 1660 32 1628 2 Yeshwanthpur 516 35 18 569 0 569 3 Pune 374 30 09 413 0 413 4 Kanpur 303 24 5 332 0 332 5 Kolkatta 437 0 03 440 55 385 6 Patna 253 1 0 254 0 254 7 Mughalsarai 678 26 16 720 21 699 8 Varanasi 308 6 10 324 45 279 9 Vishakhapatnam 146 7 0 153 10 143 10 Vijayawada 231 0 0 231 83 148 11 Berhampur 186 5 11 202 0 202 12 Bhubaneswar 402 22 44 468 105 363 13 Gorkhpur 110 07 0 117 117 0 14 Allahabad 58 0 0 58 58 0 15 Hyderabad 107 0 0 107 -- 107 16 Through rescue 172 - - 172 125 47 drive program Total 5937 164 119 6220 651 5569 % 100% 11% 89%

73 17th Annual Report Annexure # 2 Situation analysis of children on railway platforms The Indian railway network is one of the largest in the world, connecting almost all corners of the country over tracks that SATHI cover a length of more than sixty five thousand kilometres. There are more than seven thou- sand small and large railway stations across India and used by millions of people every day. Among these millions, there are hundreds of children who have separated from their families for various reasons – run away from home, missing or lost, trafficked, neglected and pushed out of home or simply trying their hand at adventure. These children, if left to themselves, are at risk – of exposure to street life and its vagaries, exploitation, substance abuse, health hazards, exposure to petty crimes and a future full of uncertainties. Early intervention is the key to putting these children back on track to the future they deserve. SATHI’s outreach team provides the first level of support & protection to these children. The team of outreach workers, ranging from 4 to 8 per station, spends about 8 to 9 hours every day on the lookout for missing, runaway and separated children on railway platforms, reaching out to them and convincing them to come to a safe shelter. Railway stations and coverage The table below gives a snapshot of the situation at different railway stations where SATHI is working, the number of children being helped, NGOs working on the platform, etc. The information is compiled from a combination of field experience and surveys conducted, and includes approximations. No. of Approxi- NGOs working on children who mate inflow rescuing are not Location Description of children children + receiving per month children helped help per month New Delhi* One of the busiest railway 500 6 NGOs including 200 stations with 350 trains SATHI are able to arriving on 16 platforms every cover 300 day. About 15 to 20 separated children per month. & runaway children arrive per Railway Childline day. Railway officials are started in sensitive to the issue of September 2015 children and provide good cooperation in rescue process, DD entry, etc.

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Old Delhi* This station has a higher inflow 800+ 5 NGOs including 600+ of children compared to New SATHI are helping Delhi. There are also atleast about 200 children 100 older children on and per mont around the railway platforms. Railway Childline Some started in July 2015

areas near the station are SATHI known hubs for children to get into substance abuse, etc. Allahabad It is the headquarters of the 150 SATHI is presently 90 North Central Railway (NCR) helping about 60 division with many major children per month trains originating / terminating from this station. Yet, there are no NGOs working consistently on the station. The rescued children are taken to shelters run by different organization. Kanpur Largest railway station under 150 SATHI is presently 90 NCR, almost all trains helping about 60 connecting Delhi and eastern to 65 children per India go through Kanpur. The month support from RPF and other railway staff is excellent. Varanasi* Being one of the most visited 4 NGOs including religious places in India, more SATHI are helping than 250 trains touch Varanasi daily. There are a large Railway Childline number of new children as started in June 2015 well as older children on the platform. There are NGO efforts to help children, but there is scope for more coordination and convergence. Mughalsarai It is said to be the 4th largest 200 3 NGOs including 100 railway junction in India and SATHI are helping has Asia’s largest marshalling around 100 yard. The inflow of children as children per month well as older children, espe- cially begging children is high. GRP and RPF are support- ive and refer many children to SATHI, but the situation demands that intervention be scaled up.

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Patna* Patna Junction is a major 250 3 NGOs including 150 station on the busy Delhi to SATHI are helping Kolkata train route. About 8 to 100 children per 10 new children arrive on the month platforms every day. There are Railway Childline also about 20 to 25 children on started in July 2015

the platform, including some SATHI children who live with families in and around the station. Working children account for many of the children rescued in Patna. Sealdah* After Howrah, it is the next CINI and SATHI 160 (Kolkata) important station serving are collaboratively Kolkata and nearby areas. working and Suburban as well as long helping 80 to 90 distance trains originate here children per month and as a result there is high Railway Childline inflow of children from nearby started in June 2015 areas as well. The railway authorities are supportive, but there is need for more efforts to work in line with the SOP for children in contact with railways. Berhampur One of the oldest in the state, 120+ SATHI & SOCH 70+ this station serves nearly 10 along with districts in Odisha and Andhra Childline are able Pradesh. The location is known to help 50 children to be a hub for human per month trafficking – a high number of girls have been rescued from here. Railways are supportive and have provided an exclusive space for interacting with children within station premises. Vishakapatnam Vizag has more than 120 trains 180 SATHI can help 120 (Vizag) arriving each day. and with it about 60 children about 6 to 7 children. per month

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Vijayawada The city has gained more 500 4 NGOs including 300 importance after the split- SATHI are helping ting of Andhra Pradesh and is 200 children per known as the business capital month of the state. Nearly 600 trains pass through the station every

day. With more than 15 to 20 SATHI children arriving every day, there is a need for more NGOs to work on the station. ailway authorities have provided a common booth for NGOs working with children. Pune Pune station is well-linked 200 3 NGOs including 140 across the country and is a stop SATHI are covering for all major trains connecting about 50 to 60 West and South India. About children per month 6 to 7 new children arrive per day. Railway officials, especially RPF have been extremely supportive and have provided space, telephone connection, etc. to SATHI to run Child Assistance Centre at the station. Yeshwanthpur This is a terminating station 200 SATHI covers 130 for many trains from northern about 60 to 70 and eastern states. It is children per month common to find children who have come for the purpose of working from UP, Bihar and even districts of North Karnataka. Railways have been very supportive and have provided their premises as shelter for children.

*5 of these stations are among the 20 locations where dedicated Railway Child lines have been started through an MoU of Ministries of Women and Child Development and Railways.

77 17th Annual Report Annexure # 3 TABLE SHOWS THE # 0F CHILDREN BROUGHT TO SATHI SHELTERS AND THEIR RESETTLEMENT IN THE YEAR 2015 -16 Children Children Children #of children Staying in Sl. #of children Referred Walkout SATHI Location brought to shelter as of No. Restored to GCH, & from shelter 31st March NGOs shelter 2016 1 Delhi 1628 1034 452 113 29 2 Yeshwanthpur 569 482 64 19 04 3 Pune 413 264 140 03 06 4 Kanpur 332 221 104 02 05 5 Kolkatta 385 301 54 11 19 6 Patna 254 177 72 02 03 7 Mughalsarai 699 588 96 01 14 8 Varanasi 279 234 35 02 08 9 Vishakapatnam 143 64 69 00 10 10 Vijayawada 148 56 83 09 00 11 Berhampur 202 186 09 00 07 12 Bhubaneswar 363 256 105 02 - 13 Hyderabad 107 22 81 04 - 14 From Drive 47 47 - - - Prog. Total 5569 3932 1364 168 105 % 100% 71% 24% 3% 2%

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THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN COUNSELLED AND RESETTLED / RE- STORED FROM 20 GOVT. CHILDREN HOMES IN THE YEAR 2015-16

Status of Address Traced children # of Address # of Parents SATHI Name of the children #of Children tracing children refused to Referred to GCH address children stay at under counseled accept the other GCH traced restored GCH process children Thane (MH) 92 61 18 9 28 6 31 Boys Girls 45 27 7 11 9 0 18 Hyderabad (TG) Boys 149 113 78 13 22 0 36 Girls 81 54 32 10 12 0 27 Visakhapatnam 106 32 32 0 0 0 74 (AP) boys & Girls Patna (BR) Boys 121 99 76 11 4 8 22 Girls 32 27 27 0 0 0 5 Kolkata (WB) Boys 77 35 20 5 6 4 42 Girls 100 50 23 14 10 3 50 (UP) Lucknow 171 118 111 7 0 0 53 Boys Girls 25 9 7 2 0 0 16 Ramnagar 133 78 56 18 4 0 55 Boys Kanpur 87 60 52 3 5 -- 27 Boys Girls 39 10 2 8 -- -- 29 Delhi Sanskaar 56 27 20 2 5 0 29 Aashram Alipur – Boys 30 12 10 1 0 1 18 NirmalChaaya 129 65 27 5 21 12 64 Girls Allabad Girls 20 12 2 3 0 7 8 Home (CHHST) 10 6 6 - - - 4 Raipur boys 20 GCH 895 606 122 126 41 1503 608

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THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN ENROLLED IN THE CAMPS & RESETTLEMENT DETAILS DURING THE YEAR 2015 - 16

# of Re-Settlement details

# of children Children Children SATHI Children Camps Location Dates Enrolled Children Referred transfer Staying at Organized in the restored to other to other GCH camp NGOs GCH 1 Bangalore 13th July - 26 20 02 03 01 GCH 27th Aug.15 2 Delhi 7th May 11th 25 05 - 08 12 June-15 17th July - 34 24 - 03 07 17th Aug-15 3 Ramnagar 24th Aug - 30 20 - 06 04 GCH 30th Oct.15 1st Nov. - 27 21 - 03 03 18th Dec-15 27th Jan-15th 25 16 - - 09 March-16 1 Hyderabad 10th Oct - 25 15 04 - 06 GCH 10th Nov-15 1 Kanpur 16th Dec - 25 16 - 05 04 Camp 22nd Jan-16 1 Patna 22nd Feb 20 10 - - 10 - 29th March-16 1 Bhubaneswar 11th Feb. - 20 09 03 - 08 8th March16 10 camps Total 257 156 09 28 64

Note:-Total 65% of the total children involved in camp were resettled remaining 35% children are continuing in GCH

80 17th Annual Report Annexure # 6A THE TABLE SHOWS TELEPHONIC FOLLOW UP STATUS OF THE CHILDREN RESTORED FROM SHELTER as on 31st March 2016

Sl. Clusters Children No. of Children Status of children Staying at Returned No restored children with home to street SATHI Contacted family Study Work Idle 1 Delhi 1034 680 667 433 65 169 13 2 Yeshawanthpur 482 367 364 259 85 20 03 3 Pune 264 248 241 182 12 47 07 4 Kanpur 221 150 148 91 16 41 02 5 Kolkatta 301 235 224 87 62 75 11 6 Patna 177 111 110 89 09 12 01 7 Mughalsarai 588 412 408 265 53 90 04 8 Varanasi 234 194 191 136 13 42 03 9 Vishakapatnam 64 49 48 33 06 09 01 10 Vijayawada 56 49 49 41 6 02 00 11 Berhampur 186 68 68 24 08 36 00 12 Bhubaneswar 256 129 129 104 06 19 00 13 Hyderabad 22 12 11 08 01 02 01 14 From Resuce 47 ------Drive Prog. Total 3932 2704 2658 1752 342 564 46

81 17th Annual Report Annexure # 6B THE TABLE SHOWS THE TELEPHONIC FOLLOW UP OF CHILDREN RESTORED FROM CAMPS as on 31st March 2016 No. of Status of children Staying Children No. of children at home Returned Clusters Home children SATHI with to street Placed Contacted Study Work Idle family Bangalore 20 20 18 15 03 - 02 Delhi 1st Camp 05 04 3 02 00 01 01 2nd Camp 24 22 20 12 02 06 02 Ramnagar 1st Camp 20 09 6 03 01 02 03 2nd Camp 21 17 17 08 04 05 00 3rd Camp 16 12 10 07 00 03 02 Hyderabad – 15 15 11 04 02 05 04 1st Camp Kanpur Camp 16 10 7 01 00 06 03 Patna Camp 10 06 5 02 00 03 01 Bhubaneswar 09 09 9 00 01 08 - Total 156 124 106 54 13 39 18

82 17th Annual Report Annexure # 6C THE TABLE SHOWS THE TELEPHONICALLY FOLLOW UP OF CHILDREN RESTORED FROM GOVT. CHILDREN HOMES as on 31st March 2016

Status of children Staying SATHI Children No. of at home Returned Locations Home children to street Placed Contacted Study Work Idle Mumbai (MH) Boys 18 16 05 1 11 - Girls 07 05 01 - 04 - Hyderabad (AP) Boys 78 71 24 07 34 06 Girls 32 30 08 03 18 01 Vishakapatnam 32 21 12 03 06 - Boys Patna (BR) Boys 76 63 32 05 25 01 Girls 27 22 07 - 15 - Kolkata (WB) Boys 20 17 08 - 08 01 Girls 23 14 09 01 04 - Lucknow (UP) Boys 114 104 19 01 79 05 Girls 07 07 02 - 05 - Ramnagar – Boys 56 32* 13 15 - 03 Kanpur Boys 52 37 10 14 09 04 Girls 02 - - - - - Sanskaar Aashram Boys 03 03 02 00 01 - Girls 17 15 10 03 01 01 Alipur – Boys 09 05 03 02 - - Nirmal Chaaya Girls 27 24 11 05 06 02 Asha Kiran 01 01 - - 01 - Allahabad - Girls 02 02 01 - 01 - TOTAL 603 489 177 60 228 24 465 children with family

*1 child died homeplaced from Ramnagar GCH

83 17th Annual Report Annexure # 7 THE TABLE SHOWS # CHILDREN HOME PLACED BY GCH STAAFS, NGOs & SATHI IN VARIOUS GOVERNMENT CHILDREN HOME FOR THE YEAR 2015 - 16

Sl. Through Through Other Name of the GCH Total HP SATHI No. GCH SATHI NGOs 1 Delhi Boys 391 360 31 00 Girls 890 864 26 00 Total 1281 1224 57 00 2 Mumbai (MH) Boys 44 26 18 00 Girls 14 07 07 00 Total 58 33 25 00 3 Hyderabad (AP) Boys 226 148 78 00 Girls 115 83 32 00 Total 341 231 110 00 4 Vishakapatnam Boys 75 43 32 00 5 Patna (BR) Boys 896 763 76 30 Girls 70 43 27 0 Total 896 763 103 30 6 Kolkata (WB) Boys 136 74 20 42 Girls 126 73 23 30 Total 262 147 43 72 7 Lucknow (UP) Boys 334 216 114 04 Girls 15 07 07 01 Total 349 223 121 05 8 Ramnagar Boys 100 44 56 00 9 Kanpur Boys 158 24 52 82 Girls 46 44 02 00 Total 204 68 54 82 10 Allahabad 09 02 02 05 11 Raipur 03 0 03 0 Grand Total 3578 2778 606 194

84 17th Annual Report Annexure # 8 VISITORS AT OUR SHELTER

S.N Name of the Designation Purpose of visit Opinion about Sathi Visitor

Mughalsarai SATHI 01 Sri. Amar Former Justice For inauguration of Felt happy and appreciated Saran HC Allahabad shelter and interaction shelter home system and with children. management. 02 Sri. Gyan CJM, Shelter inauguration He praised the work of Sathi Prakash Chandouli and interaction with children. 03 Sri. S.N. Judge (Family For inspection on Good work and will be ready Tripathi Court), observation by DPO to provide any help if Chandouli Chandouli required 04 Smt. Renuka Principle Sec. For visiting shelter & Doing good effort to Kumar (WCD) interaction with rehabilitating the children children with family 05 Sri. Prabhat DPO Chandouli for inspection of Sathi is really doing effortful Ranjan shelter & staff meeting. job for helping children. 06 Dr. Laxmi Doctor from For medical check-up Nice work. Shanker Yadav Anand Hospital of children 07 Sri. B.R.Viplavi ADRM (ECR) For interacting with I was against the work of children. NGOs but after visiting Sathi impressed and ready to give any support to Sathi for helping the children 08 Smt. Durgawati Chairperson of For distributing the Very good work by Sathi. Viplavi WWO (ECR) sweets & interacting with children. 09 Miss. Swati Law student For internship in child Commendable work Sathi protection. has done. 10 Mr. Lokesh Law student For internship in child Really Impressive. Will protection. provide good linkages to help needy children. Keep working 11 Miss. Tulika Consultant STC For meeting with Felt satisfied after visiting the Ojha Delhi stakeholder shelter homes. 12 Mr.Abhyanand CWC Member Sitting at shelter and Felt happy and suggestions Inspection given to improve more. 13 Mr.S.S. CWC Member Sitting at shelter and Felt happy and suggestions Shrivastava Inspection given to improve more. 14 Ms.Manju CWC Member Sitting at shelter and Sathi has good system and Singh Inspection management.

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15 Carvy Members NGO Visit shelter and office Nice work and good atmosphere. 19 Mr. Shravan DPO, For inspection the Shelter home has nice Kumar Gupta Chandouli, UP shelter home regarding management. Sathi provides shelter registration. good facilities to children 20 Mr.Ramesh DSC (Divisional Visiting Shelter Home Very humanistic and Chandra Senior commendable work being SATHI Commissioner, done by Sathi. ECR) 21 Mr.Venktesh RPF Inspector Visiting Shelter Home Very noble work. I am very Prasad happy to visit here. 22 Mr.S.K.Soni New DPO Visit Shelter home/ Humanitarian work. (Chandauli Celebrate Children District) Day 23 Ms.Jane Calder Regional Visit to shelter home Nice Management. Surprised Advisor, Child to see the work done by Sathi Protection, Asia, Save the Children 24 Ms.Sneha Program Visit to shelter home Nice work and counselling of Manager children is remarkable. (SDTT) 25 Mr.Mansoor Chairperson To join family Reunion Sathi has done Appreciable Alam (Board of Ceremony job to help needy children Trade, Mughalsarai) 26 Mr.Chandrashekhar Member (Board To join family Reunion Sathi has nice approach of Trade, Ceremony towards children and doing Mughalsarai) well to assist them 27 Mr.Rajkumar Ex. Chairperson To join family Reunion It necessary that society Jaisawal (Board of Trade) Ceremony become aware for child issues and to help them, Sathi has done nice job. 28 Mrs.Jyoti Political Leader To join family Reunion Sathi is doing work with nice Jaiswal (BJP) Ceremony thought. I wish God will help you. 29 Mr.Nayab Councillor To join family Reunion Appreciable work Ahmed (Mughalsarai) Ceremony and Repub- lic Day Celebration 30 Mr. Dabbu Ward Member Attend Republic Day Feeling great to join the Yadav (Mughalsarai) Celebration program. Sathi really do effort to help children. 31 Mr.Aditya Nath Ward Member Attend Family Nice work (Mughalsarai) Reunion Ceremony and Republic Day Celebration

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Varanasi 1 Ms.Nirupma Child For Inspection of Appreciated to shelter and Singh Protection shelter documents other facility that is giving to Officer DCPU children. Assured us to provide ICPS grant as soon as possible. Gave some suggestions to improve our SATHI documents. 2 Mrs.Rekha CWC CWC sitting at shelter Assured Sathi for further Srivastav Chairperson and case handling help. Also gave her valuable time with children. 3 Mr.Manojkant CWC Member CWC sitting at shelter Upadhyay and case handling Very good work and gave 4 Mr. Shishir Kr. CWC Member CWC sitting at shelter some suggestion to improve and case handling counselling report of children 5 Mrs. Priti Brat CWC Member CWC sitting at shelter and case handling 6 Mr. Akhilesh Child guidance Visit to shelter for Very happy to see work of Srivastav specialist interacting with Sathi and its process of children helping them. He suggested improving counselling process 7 Mr. Prabhat DPO, Varanasi For inspection of open Appreciated to shelter and Ranjan shelter other facility that is giving to children. Assured us to provide ICPS grant as soon as possible. Gave some suggestions to improve our documents. 8 Mr. SSP Atulya GRP Inspector, Visit to shelter for VNS interacting with Appreciated our work children process and staff working at 9 Mr. KR Pandey GRP Inspector, Visit to shelter for station. He also assured to VNS interacting with help to outreach staff children 10 Prof. A.B. Singh Professor, BHU For reunion program Sathi is doing wonderful work and ready to help in counselling manual if required

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11 Mr. Satish Kr. RPF Inspector For reunion program Appreciated to our work Arjun process and staff working at station. Delhi 2 Ms. Parul PO/IC, DCPU- Visited 3 times to help Appreciated Sathi work

II East & North maintaining SATHI East Sanskar documents Ashram, Dilshad Garden 3 Ms. Shailya DCPO, Visit to shelter for Excellent work, continue to Thapa DCPU-IV interacting with help children and guided Nirmal Chhaya children how to improve work Complex Jail Road 4 Ms. Chandani PS To know the work of Very positive and impressive. Rawat (Communication) SATHI more closely. You all are doing a wonderful LetzDream job Foundation, Gurgaon 5 Mr. Abhinav PO/NIC, For Inspection visits Wonderful job, God bless the Aran DCPU-III organisation Kasturba Niketan Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi 6 Ms. Amrit Journalist, New To publish article Fantastic Work, A real Dhillon Delhi about runaway pleasure to see how children children in magazines are being helped of Hong Kong and Singapore. 7 Ms. Dharitry Lawyer, New To give training to staff Appreciated the work of Phookan Delhi on legal rights and Sathi and ready give training remedies for children in difficult circumstances. 8 Mr. Venugopal Joint Secretary To know SATHI work Excellent efforts, Best Wishes V & FA MHA more closely (BSF, NDRF), New Delhi 9 Ms. Shuchi Deputy Surprise visit You are doing good work and Sehgal Director CPU/ continue doing this. ICPS, New Delhi

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10 Ms. Anuradha IAS, GOI, New General interest Very noble work, extremely Mitra Delhi great and compassionate treatment, please continue the good work Kanpur

1 Mr. B.B.L Member of Orientated to staffs Good work SATHI Srivastava CWC Selection about JJ Act. Committee UP 2 Mr. Ashutosh DPO Kanpur Shelter Inspection visit Appreciated Sathi work Kumar for ICPS Project 3 Ms. Ragini Asst. DPO Shelter Inspection visit Sathi is doing good work by Panday Kanpur for ICPS Project helping children 4 Mr. Girish Member of Shelter Visit & Appreciated Sathi work Awasthi CWC Kanpur Interacted with shelter children 5 Mrs Abha Teacher of Interacted with Shelter Noble work Mishra VSEC School children and provided Kanpur some gifts and old cloths 6 Mr. Vibhushan CPO Shelter Inspection visit Good work for ICPS Project 7 Mrs.Kanak Dy.CPO Shelter Inspection visit Impressed by Sathi’s work Panday for ICPS Project 8 Mr. Shubham Consultant For Project Social Great work Yadav Auditing 9 Mr. Local Person Donate money for Sathi is doing good work by K.B.Srivastava shelter children helping children 10 Md. Meraj PS GRP Kanpur Online Information Appreciated Sathi work Central Station related children 11 Mr. Atul Kumar SI Mangalpur Acknowledgement of Appreciated Sathi work PS Kanpur Missing Child Dehat Patna 1 Mr. Devendra CRPF In search of missing Sathi is doing good work by Kaji child helping children 2. Mr. Gajanan Assistant Police In search of missing Excellent work Singh Inspector child 3 Mr. AmolPatil Police In search of missing Impressed the way of work child 4. Mr. Ganga Ram Police head In search of missing Appreciable work Balram Counstable child

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5 Mrs. Geetha Ass. S.I, Police Brought parents of Doing noble work by helping Singh missing child children 6 Mr. Ritesh S.I, Police In search of missing Very good record Kumar child maintenance 7. Mr.Dinesh A.S.I, Police In search of missing Appreciable work Kumar child SATHI 8. Mr.Anil Pathak State Shelter Visit Good work Coordinator, Childline 9 Mr. Shabaz City Invited resource Nice work Nazeer Coordinator, meeting Childline 10 Mr. Kumar Secretary, Collaboration & Very nice work Deepak DISHA Meeting 11 Ms. Rakhi CEO, DISHA Collaboration & Good work Sharma Meeting 12 Mr.Manoj Mo- SHO, Bhuddha In search of missing Appreciated Sathi work han Colony Police child Station 13 Mr.Rahul De- S.I, Buddha In search of missing Appreciated Sathi work oBurman Colony P.S child Pune 1 Mr.Srikant Founder Getting Information Appreciated work of Sathi Nagpure about Sathi work. Founder, Green Wave Foundation 2 Ms.Kavita Clerical Staff Shelter Inspection Sathi need to improve Doiphode, documentations Monika Prasad, Shankar Thakur ,DCPU Pune 3 Mr.Prakash Advocate Volunteer work in impressed Sathi work and Howal, legal phase. ready to help Advocate 4 Mr.M.N Jagtap, PSI, GRP He check the daily Good work going on and PSI GRP Pune scheduled about Sathi ready to give any cooperation work needed. 5 Mr.Mohan Section Regarding security and Very nice work D. Gulunjkar, Engineer, Pune hygiene purpose S.S.N Railway Railway Pune

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6 Mr.Shailendra Special Getting rescued Child Appreciated Sathi work Chavan Executive Information officer 7 Mr.D. Vikas, Divisional Celebrating republic Good maintainsvr and need Railway Pune security day with children at to improve space factor commissioner, Sathi shelter railway Pune SATHI 8 Mr.S.D. Head For Rescued child Important role in rescue Sonawane, constable,CBI information children and their Crime Branch rehabilitation Pune 9 Mr.Sachin P. Auditor Audit Inquiry Details Excellent work done by Sathi Bhavsar, Auditor Mumbai 10 Ms.Kalyani Asst To know more about Keep it up for good work Mudalai, Ms Coordinator, Sathi Neela Kale, Aweking Jagruti NGO Pune, 11 Mr.Jui News Reporter To know more about Excellent work Dharwadkar, Sathi Reporter Sakaal Times Pune 12 Mr.Navnath Project Information about Good work going on Kamble, coordinator, street children NGO Pratham NGO Mumbai 13 Mr.Devendra PSI, Rajstan For operation smile Organization work is Singh Rathod satisfactory PSI Rajasthan Police 14 Mr.Jaysri Woman Police For operation smile Good work Jadhav, Pune Constable city commissioner 15 Mr.S.S Jadhav, Superintendent at In search of missing He was satisfied work of Sathi Superintendent GCH, child Ahamad Nagar Ahamdnagr Govt. Children Home 16 Mr.Santosh Teacher General Visit Organization giving good Mahadev guidance for children Kamble , Teacher

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17 Mr.Sanjay PSI, Pune Kidnapping child case He liked whole Sathi working Ghadge PSI F.I.R No. 75/16 IPC Process. Chakan Police 363 Purpose station Pune

Vishakapatnam SATHI 1 Mr.Dibakar SMR(GAZ) To understand and Environment is good, Panda visit to see the boys Suggested to conduct for devotional class, advised for the inspection of old boys of their institutions. Bangalore 1 Mr.Mallikarjun Social Worker Purpose to visit We got a good experience and information about child growth and development. 2 Mr.Azad Manager Child taken to home Nice place children are Joripathi having basic amenities 3 Mr.Nagaraj Programme To see children Thanks for helping children Prasad Manager in need. 4 Dr.Vasant Vijay Social Worker To understand Sathi Wonderful work of helping Activities better. children in needy

5 Asst. SJPU ACP YPR Observation Good work, will inform if North Division any child found 6 Mrs. MV Shanti SJPU Noble work

7 Mrs.Shruti Visitor Inspection Nice place good amenities Agarwal satisfied children 8 Mrs.Maya Visitor To celebrate Holi with Fantastic work Sesunki children 9 Mr.Deepak Visitor To conduct activities Very important work being Mote with children done by Sathi.

10 Mr.Beene Visitor To see work of Sathi Excellent programme George impressed.

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List of people who provided support to SATHI for the year 2015 – 2016

Name Designation Contact No. Kind of help SATHI Location

Ms. Amrit Dhillon Journalist 9811416407 She has published article in magazines of Hong Kong (Post Magazine) and Singapore (The Straits Times) about the issue of runaway children Ms. Anuradha Mitra Joint Secretary 9968686476 Ms. Anuradha have given one Geyser and Department of 15 Mattress donations to SATHI Open Electronics and IT Shelter Delhi Mr. Rajbir, Mr. Head Constables Delhi 9868315090 The 3 constables regularly come to SATHI Naveen Pandey Police (Anti Human 9810342363 open Shelter once in a week and try to Delhi and Mr. Praphull Trafficking Unit / trace the addresses of the children Chander Crime Branch) staying in Open Shelter Mr. Sumit Bose Ex-Financial Secretary 9868201648 Mr. Sumit Bose have given Government of India Donation of Rs. 10,000/- to SATHI. Presently Board Member of SATHI Goonj Non-Government 011-41401216 Goonj NGO has donated food materials Organization 9818814427 and games material, clothes for children staying in SATHI Open Shelter. Mr. Satbeer SIngh Head Constable 9968056370 Mr. Jitendra SHO GRP 8950871302 Ms. Sujata Inspector GRP 8750871303 Mr. Ram Mehar SI RPF 9968376975 Singh Mr. RK Lakra SHO RPF 9717631746 Motivated the child to go with Sathi staff Mr. Som Nath Malik Manager Station 9717634369 Old Delhi Market Mr. Dinesh Senior Section Engi- 9717631269 Kumar neer Mr. Raleem Dablu Juvenile Welfare Officer 8744088223 Mr. Virendra Kumar Station manager 9717631926 Mr. BP Gupta TT 9811337303 Mr. Om Prakash Guard 9717634471 Mr. Suresh Vendor 8750658839 Mr. Ram Kumar Vendor 9868418958 Referred children to Sathi Mr. Ram Nath Vendor 8586024251 Old Delhi Mr. Prem Coolie 9910882328 Mr. Bharti Coolie -- Mr. Sonu Box Potter 8860980669 Old Delhi Railway Station

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Ms.Geetha Singh ASI, Budha Colony -- Brought the parent of missing child and Police Station. helped to trace a child’s address for us. Mr. Kumar Deepak Genral Secretary, 9431018682 / Collaborated and motivated the SATHI DISHA, Budha Colony, 8090220022 team and rescued children. Mr.Rajendra Lal RPF Incharge, -- Helped to issue ID card for SATHI staff. RPF, Patna Junction Mr.Santosh Kumar S.I, RPF, Patna Junc- -- Helped to issue ID card for SATHI staff. tion. SATHI

Patna Mr.Pramod Kumar SHO, GRP, Patna -- Initiated the process of GD Entry of Junction rescued children. Ms.Bharti Kumari TTE, -- Helps and handover the abundant and lost Patna Junction children to SATHI Ms.Rakhi Sharma CEO, 9334100373 Collaborating and motivating the SATHI DISHA, Budha Colony team and rescued children. Mr. Pritram Kumar TTE, -- Helps and handover the abundant and lost Patna Junction children to SATHI Mr.A.K. Pandey Station Manager 09794833908 GD Entry Permission Mr.A.K. Singh Superintendent of sta- 09794301799 GD Entry Permission tion Mr.R. N. Mal Superintendent of sta- 094159851117 Handing over children to Child line tion Mr.Sheshnath Singh C.O. GRP 09445401694 Mr.Shiv Prakash GRP Inspector 09454404414 GD Entry Permission Sonkar Mr.Atul Pandey S.I. GRP -- Mr.Duniya Singh S.I. GRP 09450254614 Help during facing problem in contacting Mr.Adarsh Kumar S.I. GRP 08858460721 children Mr.Jitendra Head Constable 09452628021 Diwedi GD Entry of child Mr.Ambrish Singh GRP Constable 09415834961 Mr.Santosh Kumar GRP Constable 08009037577 GD Entry in RPF Mr.Pandey

Varanasi Mr.Satish Kumar Inspector RPF -- Help to work with Child line Arjun Ms.Uma Yadav S.I. RPF 09621665869 GD Entry & Help to work with Child line Mr.Ram Parvesh Chief CTI -- Help to contact child Mr. O.N. Singh Chief TNC 09794834901 Help to contact child Mr.Deepak Singh Technician 1st 09453250473 Help to public Mr.Kamal Kant Janahar Incharge 08960327072 Provide food to rescue child on less rate Tiwari Mr.Ram Bihari Janahar Incharge -- Provide food to rescue child on less rate Tiwari Mr.Chandan Swiper 08808675894 Refer children Mr.Pappu Fruit Seller -- Refer children Mr.Ratan Sonkar Fruit Seller 09889566385 Refer children and provide free fruit Mr.Sumit Singh Ice cream seller 09793827209 Referred children

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Mr. B.B.L Member of CWC 09839085002 As a facilitator, he supports about J.J Srivastava Selection Committee Act and legal advice UP Mr. Ashutosh DPO Kanpur 09450273587 Kumar Regarding Open shelter under ICPS Ms. Ragini Panday Asst. DPO Kanpur 09559772939 (shelter Inspection and guided to staff)

Mr. Vibhushan CPO -- SATHI Mr. Girish Member of CWC 09451284379 Visits to shelter, and interact with Awasthi kanpur children and gives valuable sugges- tions. Mr. Shubham Consultant 07376426247 For Project Social Auditing and helped Yadav in release ICPS grant Mr. Tripurari Ex, GRP Incharge 09454401644 Provided Assistance boot for Pandey of Kanpur railway counselling of contacted children at Kanpur station station, I. D. Card and also motivated children to brought shelter. Mr. Shakeel Khan Assistant Secu- 09794837703 Railway premises provided to Sathi for rity commissioner old children NFE class . (NCR) Mr. Ashish News paper seller 09305166146 Donated three- four time Old clothes for shelter children Mr. Suraj Shelter child (Anurag 09450331508 Donated Rs.10,000/- by cheque in Verma) favour of Sathi. Mrs. Abha Mishra Teacher of VSEC 09415222823 Shelter visit with her school students, School Kanpur she interacted with child and provided clothes and snacks materials. Mr.B.R Viplavi ADRM 9452241055 Gave support to start work and allot booth, visit shelter home and give concern on counselling and helping to children shelter as well station. Mr. Ramesh Divisional Security 9794848700 RPF card for outreach staffs made in Chandra Commissioner of kind support of him. He also visited RPF shelter team and appreciated the team work. Mr.Dayanand Divisional 9794848950 Arrange meeting halls for stakeholder Commotional meeting at station. He always Manager appreciated work of Sathi. Mr.Bijay Km. Shah Station Manager 9794848904 Provide support in booth allotments and meeting hall. Given cooperation in Mughalsarai work in platform work. Mr. Anil Singh Manager, Jan Aahar -- Big supporter of Sathi. Provide free canteen food to rescue children at railway station. Mr. Sanjay Project Manager of -- He referred many children to Sathi and Clean Train Services always gives support to recue children. Mr.NandJi Yadav Former.GRP 09454404415 Support in D.D entry of children and Inspector handling to common people also referred some children.

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Mr. Tripurari GRP Inspector 9454404415 Aware to others about Sathi. If he saw Pandey ( In present) any needy child immediately call to Sathi staffs and hand over him. Mr.Mrityunjay T.T -- He arrange announcement of missing children and also give help in motivating to rescue children.

Mr. Venktesh RPF Inspector 9794848704 Support in rescuing addicted children. SATHI Prasad Came at shelter home for visiting purpose. Mrs.Shashirakha Counselor Bangalore Counselling support for parents and children in difficult situation. Mrs.Manjula Counselor, Counseling support for the children NIMHANS Falun Dafa NGO Meditation Mr.Sridahar President Rotary supported cots and 10 beds Mrs.Nirmal Board Members 9448116094 Rs.1, 25,000/- support to organize Murthy camp in Bangalore Govt. Home Bangalore Ms.Sunitha Volunteers Donated Rs.10,000 Food Grain NGO - Donated Food items ISKCON - Providing Midday meals for children Annapurneshwari - - Donated Plates for children Temple Dr. Choudhary Doctor -- Provided 11 blankets for children Sadhu Waswani Trust 020-65108540 Provided everyday 1 time food for Mission children Mr.D.Vikas Divisional security 09766343168 Provided conference hall for family Pune Commissioner, RPF reunion program Mr.Shinde RPF, PI 020-26126625 Provided snacks for children in rescue drive program Mr.Sagar Raut Member of Ayud 08237184587 Foundation Provided cloths for children Chinchwad Mr.Datta Dhavre Civil engineer 09422036484 Donated Rs.2000 for purchase

(MH) children’ game items Hadapsar Hadapsar

Mr.Nagesh, CWC team 9948661381 The CWC of Vijayawada is always on Fr.Balashowry, to help in giving orders for the children Mr.jayaaraj to be placed in child care home who - CWC are rescued by Sathi

Mr.Ramesh Child Coodinator – 9440897360 Helped us in getting in touch with the line Child line Railway RPF and FRPF at initially. Child line receives children rescued by Sathi

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Mr.Malleswarao Coordinator 9490491831 He is the coordinating person for the – NJBB Railway child rescue booth run by fo- rum. Any problem on the platform he attends to clear the problems. Mr.Chandra Program Manager 9948450950 SKCV The person responsible for running of

the shelter of SKCV where SATHI children rescued by Sathi are placed.

Mr.Mohan Chief Coordinator He is the over all chief and SKCV maintains the home for children of SKCV and he is kind to children and staff in providing required needs for children of Sathi. Dr.Shridhar Reddy Chairiman - SKCV 99481283342 He is the instrumental in supporting Sathi in having the partnership in keeping the children at the shelter of the SKCV. Mr.Srinivas reddy GRP Inspector -- He is very kind to Sathi in recognising the outreach workers of Sathi. They are supportive in rescuing children , espe- cially girl children. Vijayawada Mr.Suresh Railway Station 9701373933 He has helped Sathi to have the Master rescue operation conducted. He gave necessary permission to do a week long survey. Mr.Roshan CWC Chairman 9848090642 Kumar Guntur His kind support helped in getting nec- essary permission to undertake survey in Guntur.

Fr. Balashowry Dirictor NJBB 9440951985 Father is the Director and Vice President of the forum. He has wel- comed and accepted to support Sathi in its rescue operations and doing regular work in railway station. Fr.Noel Chairiman Care and 7660997788 Sahre He has accepted to support Sathi on behalf of forum for child rights Vi- jayawada.

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LIST OF STAFFS WORKED DURING THE YEAR 2015 - 16

S.N Employee Name Gender Designation EDU. Place DOA Gross Salary

Pramod Kulkarni M Founder IIM Bangalore 1992 SATHI Nil Secretary (AMD) 1 Basavaraj Shali M Secretary MA Bangalore 17-05-1993 63,950.00 2 Rohit Shetti M Advocacy BE Bangalore 01-01-2015 40,000.00 Officer 3 Shamboling Khot M Prog. Officer MSW Bangalore 15-09-2014 22,500.00 4 Rajashekar .M. M Prog. Officer B.A. Varanasi 01-10-2004 25,934.00 5 Pramila Shobha F F Administrator B.A. Off. Bangalore 16-06-2014 14,000.00 (Part Time) Mgnt. 6 Chandramouleshwar M Finance & Admin. M.COM Bangalore 01-06-2015 40,000.00 Manger 7 Vinodh P M Accounts Officer B.COM Bangalore 09-01-2007 17,594.00 8 Mouneshwar M MIS Officer MSW Bangalore 23-07-2005 17,721.00 9 Niranjan M Accountant B.COM Bangalore 11-07-2013 13,450.00 10 Jyothi Bai F Care Giver BA DED Bangalore 03-11-2014 9,075.00 11 Divya M R F Care Giver BA Bangalore 07-07-2014 9,075.00 12 Laxmamma F Cook 5TH Bangalore 17-02-2016 5,000.00 13 Sadanada K. S M Outreach MSW Bangalore 20-10-2014 8,150.00 14 Cheluvaraj Mp M Outreach MA Bangalore 16-03-2015 8,150.00 15 Dhariyappa M M Outreach BA D.ED Bangalore 11-01-2016 7,750.00 16 Viththal Yallappa M Outreach MSW Bangalore 13-01-2016 8,000.00 17 Srinivas Murthy M Driver SSLC Bangalore 01-11-2013 10,250.00 18 Neelam Srivastava F Outreach M.A. Allahabad 11-02-2016 8,000.00 19 Manish Kumar. M F Outreach B.A. Allahabad 19-02-2016 8,000.00 20 Prakashani .S F Counsellor M.A. Allahabad 27-11-2015 9,000.00 21 Tej Narayana M City Co.Ordinator B.A. Allahabad 01-08-2015 10,000.00 22 Arman Husain M Outreach MSW Allahabad 17-02-2016 8,000.00 23 Abhishek K Panday M Outreach M.A. Allahabad 11-03-2016 8,000.00 24 Anshul Mishra M Outreach M.A. Allahabad 04-03-2016 8,000.00 25 Joshlin Panigrahy F Counsellor MSW Behrampur 01-11-2015 7,050.00 26 K Lavanya Yadav F Outreach B.COM Behrampur 01-11-2015 5,750.00 27 Kamal Prasad .N M Coordionator MSW Behrampur 01-11-2015 9,000.00 28 Sachikanta Sahoo M Outreach B.A Behrampur 01-11-2015 6,750.00 29 D. Proyadarshini M Outreach BA Behrampur 01-03-2015 8,000.00 30 Khuster Azam M Counsellor- GCH MA Raipur 23-02-2016 13,000.00 31 Manisha Devi F Counsellor MSW Delhi 16-01-2013 10,250.00 32 Mithlesh F Outreach BA Delhi 27-07-2015 7,750.00 33 Manju Singh F Documentation MSW Delhi 11-08-2014 17,450.00 Officer 34 Akansha Tiwari F Counselor MBA Delhi 19-01-2016 15,000.00 35 Priti Chhetri F Caretaker PUC Delhi 01-01-2016 8,000.00

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36 Anita Yadav F Outreach MA Delhi 04-01-2016 8,000.00 37 Monika F Caregiver BA Delhi 01-01-2016 8,000.00 38 Roopa Gulathi F Outreach PUC Delhi 03-08-2015 8,000.00 39 Indu Oberoi F Beautician Trainer PUC Delhi 22-02-2016 10,000.00 40 Ramila Pal F Trailoring Trainer PUC Delhi 25-01-2016 9,000.00 41 Priyanka F Computer BA Delhi 04-03-2016 10,000.00

Teacher SATHI 42 Renu F Cook / Helper 8TH Delhi 15-01-2016 7,000.00 43 Fuma M Outreach M.COM Delhi 14-07-2014 9,050.00 44 Manoj Kumar B M Outreach PUC Delhi 08-08-2014 8,650.00 45 Avinash Kumar M Outreach PUC Delhi 13-11-2015 8,000.00 46 Guddu M Outreach BA Delhi 27-07-2015 8,150.00 47 Chandan Gupta M Accountant B.COM Delhi 02-03-2015 10,250.00 48 Mukesh Kumar M Outreach PUC Delhi 18-03-2015 12,350.00 49 Rahul Rastogi M Outreach MSW Delhi 18-09-2015 8,000.00 50 Raja Dixit M Caretaker SSLC Delhi 12-05-2015 10,800.00 51 Kishor Barman M Counsellor-GCH MSW Guwahati 9,000.00 52 Vandana Mishra F Counsellor M.S.W Kanpur 01-08-2015 9,000.00 53 Kirti Gupta F Outreach M.A, B. Kanpur 01-08-2015 8,000.00 ED 54 Swati Sahoo F Counsellor M.A. Kanpur 05-12-2015 10,000.00 55 Priyanka Tiwari F Coordinator-GCH M.A. Kanpur 23-11-2015 9,000.00 56 Aneeta Devi F Cook SSLC Kanpur 01-08-2015 4,500.00 57 Rajkumar M Camp Teacher M.A. Kanpur 19-04-2012 9,600.00 58 Anoop Jaiswal M Computer B.COM Kanpur 13-09-2010 8,650.00 Operator 59 Neeraj Awasthi M NFE Teacher PUC Kanpur 01-08-2015 8,000.00 60 Vijay Kumat Pal M Outreach M.A.B. ED Kanpur 01-08-2015 8,000.00 61 Bhushan Singh M Shelter Incharge B.A Kanpur 11-01-2016 8,000.00 62 Subhash Sharma M Camp Teacher B.SC. Kanpur 01-08-2015 8,000.00 63 Md. Asraf M Shelter Incharge BA Kolkata 01-10-2015 9,000.00 64 Rajesh Kumar Saini M Camp Incharge M.S. W Kanpur 20-08-2008 14,160.00 65 Pramendra Singh M Pro-Coordinator B. SC. Kanpur 12-08-2015 13,000.00 66 Kumar Saurabh M Outreach B.COM Kanpur 27-03-2016 8,000.00 67 Itikana Pal F Counselor -GCH BSW Kolkata 25-04-2014 11,000.00 68 Moumita Dey F Counselor-GCH B.SC Kolkata 14-12-2015 12,000.00 69 Debjani Das Gupta F Outreach BA Kolkata 01-11-2015 10,000.00 70 Rani Kumar Saw F Outreach BA Kolkata 22-02-2016 8,500.00 71 Tapan Mazumder M Outreach B.COM Kolkata 01-11-2015 8,500.00 72 Kuntal Chakraborty M Outreach BA Kolkata 01-11-2015 8,500.00 73 Sumendra Shaw M Outreach BA Kolkata 09-12-2015 8,500.00 74 Raju Gayen M Camp Associate B.COM Kolkata 01-03-2016 10,000.00 75 Aniruddha B M Pro. Associate BA Kolkata 01-11-2015 12,500.00 76 I.Bhushan Gupta M City Coordinator BA Kolkata 11-03-2016 15,350.00 77 Rafat Sultana F MIS Officer MSW Mughalsarai 01-05-2015 11,250.00

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78 Chandani Tripati F Counsellor B.SC. Mughalsarai 11-05-2015 8,250.00 79 Kiran Gupta F Outreach B.A Mughalsarai 01-05-2015 8,250.00 80 Aakanksha Mishara F Counsellor-GCH MSW Mughalsarai 23-10-2015 9,000.00 81 Baby Kumari F Outreach MSW Mughalsarai 01-03-2016 8,000.00 82 Seema Maurya F Counsellor MSW Mughalsarai 27-08-2015 9,000.00 83 Prasoon Kumar M Outreach M.A. Mughalsarai 17-03-2015 8,750.00 SATHI 84 Abhishek M Warden B.COM Mughalsarai 15-08-2015 8,250.00 85 Sachin Kumar M Warden B.A. Mughalsarai 19-12-2015 8,000.00 86 Mahendra Kumar M Outreach B.A. Mughalsarai 22-06-2015 8,250.00 87 Pradeep K. Pandey M Outreach B.A. Mughalsarai 01-12-2015 8,000.00 88 Umesh Kumar Rao M Outreach MSW Mughalsarai 14-12-2015 8,000.00 89 Dilip Rajak M P.T.Instructor B.A. Mughalsarai 01-07-2015 7,250.00 90 Awdhesh Kumar M Camp Assistant B.A. Mughalsarai 01-02-2016 9,000.00 91 Sheshnath Sharma M Outreach B.A. Mughalsarai 01-03-2016 8,000.00 92 Arbind Kumar M Camp Teacher B.A. Mughalsarai 28-08-2012 10,600.00 93 Amit Kumar M Finance & Admin. M.COM Mughalsarai 21-07-2015 12,000.00 94 Madhuri F Counsellor-GCH MA. Mumbai 25-08-2015 12,000.00 95 Sandhya Roy F Consellor MA Patna 19-02-2016 12,000.00 96 Kanchan Srivastava F Counsellor-GCH M.S.W Patna 01-06-2014 8,000.00 97 Md Gufran M Outreach PUC Patna 14-01-2016 8,000.00 98 Md. Nehal M Cordinator PUC Patna 10-08-2015 9,000.00 99 Amansahu M Outreach PUC Patna 12-08-2015 8,000.00 100 Rakesh Kumar M Outreach PUC Patna 01-03-2016 8,000.00 101 Rahul Kumar M Outreach BA Patna 14-08-2015 8,000.00 102 Akhilesh Singh M Outreach BA Patna 10-12-2015 8,000.00 103 Kumar Gautam M MIS Officer MAS. Patna 19-02-2016 14,000.00 COM. 104 Prahalad Pankaj M Prog. Officer M.B.A Patna 22-03-2016 22,000.00 105 Pooja Gadhave F Caregiver M.S.W. Pune 01-04-2015 8,850.00 106 Suchitra B Dolase F Cook NILL Pune 05-11-2013 4,000.00 107 Ashish Srivastava M Co-Ordinator PGPDM Pune 17-08-2010 9,950.00 108 Umesh Bhagu Raut M Outreach B.COM Pune 22-02-2015 8,250.00 109 Shivam Yadav M Outreach B.SC. Pune 28-07-2015 8,250.00 110 Sharad R. Bansode M Outreach B.A Pune 07-07-2015 7,500.00 111 Nithin Ghodke M Coordinator (Part B.A Pune 01-06-2015 5,360.00 Time) 112 Seema Jadhav M MIS Officer MSW Pune 15-02-2016 10,000.00 113 Ramesh Sonwalkar M Pro. Coordinator M.A. Pune 14-03-2016 16,000.00 114 Viswanath M Outreach B.A. Raipur 01-02-2016 8,000.00 115 Vivek Kumar M Outreach MA Raipur 20-01-2016 8,000.00 116 Saroj Kumar Sah M CWC Counselor B.A. Raipur 23-03-2009 11,485.00 117 Amit Verma M Outreach B.COM Raipur 22-02-2016 9,000.00

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118 B Channa Basava M Counsellor -GCH BA Secundrabad 01-04-2015 12,350.00 119 Km. Khushboo F MIS Officer MSW Varanasi 10-10-2015 14,000.00 120 Pooja Yadav F Counsellor MSW Varanasi 27-08-2015 10,250.00 121 Sakshee Jaiswal F Documentist MBA Varanasi 01-01-2015 16,000.00 122 Vandana Verma F Outreach M.A. Varanasi 15-02-2016 8,000.00 123 Kavita Devi F Outreach MSW Varanasi 16-02-2016 10,000.00 SATHI 124 Amina Das F Outreach B.A. Varanasi 02-11-2015 8,000.00 125 Pradeep Singh M Outreach MSW Varanasi 25-04-2012 9,500.00 126 Ram Gopal M Camp Teacher MSW Varanasi 01-08-2015 9,500.00 127 Kusum F Cook 7th Varanasi 26-11-2015 4,500.00 128 Ramesh Sharma M Outreach B.A. Varanasi 16-02-2016 8,000.00 129 Anil Kumar M Accountant B.COM Varanasi 02-12-2015 10,000.00 130 Chhama Uppadhyay M NFE Teacher M.P.ED Varanasi 11-12-2015 7,000.00 131 Shubham Jaiswal M Outreach B.COM Varanasi 24-01-2016 8,000.00 132 Amit Kumar S M Outreach B.A. Varanasi 02-03-2016 9,500.00 133 Abarar Ali M City Co.Ordinator BA Varanasi 12-05-2014 12,160.00 134 K.Baby Rani F Outreach B.Com Vijayawada 01-02-2016 8,250.00 135 V.Rajasri F Outreach PUC Vijayawada 01-02-2016 7,250.00 136 Mammadevi F Counsellor MSW Vijayawada 24-12-2015 15,360.00 137 A. Aparna F Counsellor BA Vijayawada 01-02-2016 10,250.00 138 B.Isaac Wesley M Outreach MSW Vijayawada 01-02-2016 8,250.00 139 K.Laxmu Naidu M Outreach MSW Vijayawada 02-02-2016 10,000.00 140 A.Venkat Rathanm M Outreach MSW Vijayawada 18-02-2016 8,250.00 141 Ch.Malathi F Outreach MSW Vishakapatnam 03-02-2016 8,250.00 142 Ch.Subhadra F Counsellor MSW Vishakapatnam 22-02-2016 8,250.00 143 Yamala John Peter M City Coordinator MSW Vishakapatnam 26-11-2015 11,350.00 144 Shivakumar M Coordinator B.COM Vishakapatnam 24-09-2012 9,450.00 145 Sanyasi Rao V M Outreach MSW Vishakapatnam 01-12-2015 8,250.00 146 Reddy Ravi M Outreach B.TECH Vishakapatnam 27-11-2015 8,250.00 147 B.Daveedu M Outreach MSW Vishakapatnam 04-02-2016 8,250.00 148 G.Goweu Naidu M Outreach MSW Vishakapatnam 01-02-2016 8,250.00 149 Rajeshwari F Cook 4TH STD. Vishakapatnam 08-02-2016 5,000.00 150 Nagesh T V M Accountant M.COM Vishakapatnam 10-03-2016 11,000.00

101 17th Annual Report Annexure # 11 DETAILS OF THE STAFF RESIGNED DURING THE YEAR OF 2015-16

No. of Sl. Name Of The years Place Of Basic Reason For Designation No. Staff Exp. In Working Salary Resignation

Sathi SATHI 1 Veeresh Hiremath Outreach 0.6 Bengaluru 7,500.00 Got job in his native place 2 Jagadish MP Care Giver 2.4 Bengaluru 7,700.00 Got job in his native place Cum 3 Adarsh Kumar Coordinator 0.3 Bengaluru 15,360.00 Got job in his native place Tripati 4 Arun Jayakar Driver 0.5 Bengaluru 9,750.00 Family Problem 5 Sridhar K H Outreach 3.6 Bengaluru 7,250.00 Health problem 6 Anurag Dutta GCH Co- 0.3 Delhi 12,000.00 To continue his study Ordinator 7 Reetika Yadav Counsellor 0.3 Delhi 10,000.00 To continue his study 8 Akshay Tiwari Outreach 0.5 Delhi 8,000.00 To continue his study 9 Md.Naimuddin Caregiver 0.5 Delhi 8,000.00 Got new job Ansari 10 Rimpa Basak Counsellor 1.8 Delhi 10,950.00 Joined Railway Child Line 11 Kamlesh Pandey Prog 7.0 Delhi 24,332.00 Got new job Co-Ordinator 12 Anil Sharma Outreach 2.6 Delhi 8,650.00 Got new job 13 Kamlesh Cook 0.3 Delhi 6,000.00 Family problem 14 Vinesh Kumar Outreach 1.2 Delhi 8,850.00 Joined Railway Child Line 15 Yunus Outreach 1.5 Delhi 8,750.00 Joined Railway Child Line 16 Shiv Kumar Counsellor 1.0 Delhi 9,750.00 Got new job 17 Priyanka Outreach 0.2 Delhi 8,000.00 Got new job 18 Radha Counsellor 1.5 Delhi 9,750.00 Got new job 19 Vinita Outreach 0.5 Delhi 8,000.00 Joined Railway Child Line 20 Pulkit Kashyap Driver 1.6 Delhi 9,500.00 Got new job 21 Sandeep Dubey Accountant 3.5 Delhi 11,010.00 Got new job 22 Akshay Tiwari Counsellor 0.5 Delhi 8,000.00 Join Railway Child Line 23 Md.Naimuddin Caregiver 0.5 Delhi 8,000.00 Resigned Ansari 24 Prasant Kumar MIS Officer 0.3 Gorakhpur 14,000.00 Got new job 25 Ravindra Dakshe Out Reach 0.3 Gorakhpur 9,000.00 Health Problem 26 Rajesh Gupta GCH 0.3 Kanpur 9,000.00 Got new job Counsellor 27 Manojith Banerji Prog Asso 0.3 Kolkata 16,500.00 Got new job 28 Soumya Porwal Counsellor 1.7 Lucknow 10,850.00 Got new job 29 Neetu Singh Counsellor 0.5 Mughalsarai 9,750.00 Family problem 30 Jagat Pal Warden 0.8 Mughalsarai 9,250.00 Family problem 31 Sunita B Bahulkar Counsellor 0.3 Mumbai 12,000.00 Got job in her native place 32 Gautam Kumar Shelter 0.4 Patna 8,250.00 Family problem Singh In-charge

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33 Anju Singh Prog 0.3 Patna 18,000.00 Joined ICPS state office Coordinator 34 Ashish Takur Accountant 0.3 Patna 12,000.00 Got new job 35 Shaini Suman Counsellor 0.5 Patna 12,000.00 Personal Problem 36 Anuj Kumar Shelter In- 0.4 Patna 10,000.00 Got new job charge

37 Chandraket Outreach 0.5 Patna 7,000.00 Got new job SATHI 38 Smita Ashok Social Worker 2.2 Pune 9,950.00 Personal Problem Tribuvan 39 Vivek S Adhagale Outreach 1.8 Pune 7,300.00 Got job in his native place 40 Sindhnoor Laxman Outreach 0.6 Pune 7,300.00 Personal Problem 41 Bipin Singh Outreach 0.5 Varanasi Got new job 9,000.00 42 Birendra Pratap Outreach 0.6 Varanasi 9,000.00 Got new job Singh 43 Vandana Gaur Outreach 0.3 Varanasi Got Married and shifted 9,000.00 44 Manglesh Singh Outreach 0.3 Varanasi 9,000.00 Family problem 45 J. Ravinder Outreach 0.3 Vijayawada 8,000.00 Personal Problem 46 Yanamatti Siva Outreach 0.3 Visakhapatnam 8,250.00 Got job in his native place 47 R.Padma Vathi GCH 0.3 Visakhapatnam 9,250.00 Health Problem Counsellor 48 Padmavathi Counsellor 0.3 Visakhapatnam 9,250.00 Got job in his native place

ANNUAL REPORT DISCLOSURES All these disclosures should form part of the annual report EXCEPT when you allow Give India to put this information in public domain and share the same via Guide Star India, etc. 1. A bridged financials: • Balance Sheet, • Income & Expenditure, • Receipts & Payments Account or Fund Flow Statement 2. The salary and benefits of the NGO Head, the highest paid staff member and the lowest paid staff member.

Head of the organization: (including honorarium) per year. Rs.7, 36,521/

Highest paid Full Time regular staff per year Rs 4, 30.000/

Lowest paid Full Time regular staff per year Rs.96, 000/-

103 17th Annual Report Names of Board Members and their Position on the board

Sl. Name Age Qualification Designation Profession Address No 1 Mrs. Lalita Iyer 55 MSc, -PHD Chair person Social Activist 203, Avens Dale,5 Moyen Villa Road, Langford Town, Bangalore-560025 Mobile: +91 9481781804 SATHI 2 Mr. Mandar 41 BE -MBA Treasurer Self employed J 34, 3rd floor, 3rd cross, Nayak Ganesha block, Sheshadripuram, Pipeline Road, Malleshwaram, Bangalore – 560030 Mobile: +91 9980927915 3 Ms. Nirmala 64 DSC from Member Consultant in #355, 1st E Cross, 6th Block, Murthy Harvard Health 2nd Phase, University management BSK 3rd Stage, Bangalore – 560 085 Mobile: +91 9448116094 4 Prof. G. 56 PhD -PGDM Member Professor in Professor, Public Systems Raghuram -BTech IIM-A Group, Indian Institute of Management, -380015 Mobile: +91 9825304948 5 Dr. Neela Dabir 66 B.Sc. B.Ed. Member Ex-Dy. Director, Tata Institute Of Social M.S.W. Ph.D. TISS - Mumbai Sciences, (TISS) Mumbai Mobile: +91 820047560 6 Mr. Rajeev Dar 56 MBA – IIM Member Social Worker #23, Zamrutpur Commercial Ahmadabad Complex, and B. Tech. New Delhi-48 Dairying Mobile: +919811031107 7 Mr. Vinod 48 B.A., LL.B. Spl., Member Advocate “IRIS”, Nodu Lane, Bejai Post, F. Furtado PGDPM & IR – 575 004 Mobile: +919448409375 8 Mr. Basavaraj 46 MA in Secretary Social Worker SATHI ,# 36, Ratna Forever, Shali Sociology 4th Floor, 1st Cross,Model Colony, Above New Bescom Office, Yeshwanthpur, Bangalore-560022 Mobile: +91 9448388257

104 17th Annual Report All remuneration and reimbursements to Board members, Even if there is ‘zero’ remuneration it must be placed on record.

Sl. No Name Date of members was first Gross Remuneration PER elected to the Board ANNUM (Rs.) 1 Mrs. Lalita Iyer 17th August 2010 0

2 Mr. Mandar Nayak 1st September 2012 0 SATHI 3 Ms. Nirmala Murthy 20th August 2005 0 4 Prof. G. Raghuram 13th July 2009 0 5 Dr. Neela Dabir 26th April 2014 0 6 Mr.Rajeev Dar 29th May 2015 0 7 Mr. Vinod F. Furtado 30th October 2015 0 8 Mr. Basavaraj Shali 22nd December 2015 7,36,521.00

The distribution of staff according to salary levels and gender breakup

Slab of gross salary per month Male staff Female Staff Total Staff (in Rs) plus benefits paid to staff Less than 5000 - - - 5,000 – 10,000 68 41 109 10,000 – 25,000 23 14 37 25,000 – 50,000 03 00 03 50,000 – 1,00,000 1 00 01 Greater than 1,00,000 - - - Total 94 55 150

Total cost of international travel by all personnel (including volunteers) & Board Members segregating those incurred on organizational expense and those that were sponsor, along with the name and designation of the person(s) who travelled and the purpose(s) of travel. Even if there is no travel it will be placed on record. Sl.no Name of the Board Members Total cost of international travel 1 Mrs. Lalita Iyer 0 2 Mr. Mandar Nayak 0 3 Ms. Nirmala Murthy 0 4 Prof. G. Raghuram 0 5 Dr. Neela Dabir 0 6 Mr.Rajeev Dar 0 7 Mr. Vinod F. Furtado 0 8 Mr. Basavaraj Shali 0 9 Sathi staff/Volunteers 0 Total 0

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