Organizational ANNUAL REPORT April 2015 to Mar 2016 NAVAJEEVAN BALA BHAVAN SOCIETY #24-3-35, Ist Lane, Bavajipet, Andhra Ratna Road VIJAYAWADA – 520 003; Andhra Pradesh, India Phone: +91-866-2439913; Fax: +91-866-2431221 Email:
[email protected]; Website: www.njbb.org I.STREET PRESENCE PROJECT Street Presence – Field work: The main source of field contact of children at VJA Railway Station: The experience is that when a child is rescued at the earliest, he or she will be less addicted to street life and can be integrated with family easily. The more a child stays on the street, the more he or she gets addicted to street life, making the home integration or any other rehabilitation measures more difficult. Hence, applying the principle ‘sooner the better’, utmost importance to be given for rescuing the child at the earliest, especially intensifying the coordinated rescue efforts at railway stations as more than 95% of the children travel by train after leaving home to reach different urban centers, hence, the need of intensifying the field presence in Vijayawada Railway Station is utmost important. About 218 children are rescued on an average per month by Navajeevan team that too, more than 95% from Vijayawada Railway Station. STREET PRESENCE RESCUE DATA - APRIL 2015 to MARCH 2016 Old Boys Old Girls Month New Boys New Girls Total (repeated) (repeated) April 2015 146 12 11 0 169 May 104 13 14 0 131 June 112 30 18 0 160 July 112 17 12 1 142 August 110 17 12 0 139 September 89 9 6 0 104 October 111 21 12 3 147 November 119 13 7 1 140 December 114 20 5 0 139 January 2016 133 14 13 0 160 February 107 28 13 0 148 March 65 10 6 0 81 TOTAL :: 1322 204 129 5 1660 During the reporting year (April 2015 to March 2016), Navajeevan street presence team alone, as the table above indicates, rescued 1660 (New and Old) children from the street, mostly from Vijayawada railway station.