Annapurna Pariwar recently celebrated Children’s day with
slum children in Pune. A children’s day is celebrated in December every year to
showcase the talents of these young children and to spread awareness about
child rights to improve their welfare.
Annapurna looks after over 600 children under their ‘Vatsalyapurna’
project. It runs a unique chain of low cost Day Care Centre’s for children of
poor working women. Annapurna Pariwar has been working for the empowerment of
slum women since last three decades. An early childhood development
intervention for slum children has thus become the focus of Annapurna.
A variety entertainment programme was organised for the
kids from every centre to display their skills and enjoy by singing and dancing
to the tune of local songs. In last 14 years Annapurna has set up 16 Day Care centre’s
in 14 slums in Pune and 4 Day Care centre’s in Mumbai and has given an
opportunity to 40 women to have self-employment. These centre’s today look
after more than 600 slum children in Mumbai and Pune.
Dr. Medha Purao-Samant, MD Annapurna Pariwar said, “Slum
children are almost always left unattended when parents are at work or are looked
after by their eldest sibling. Children thus miss out on their childhood as a
result of poverty. Poverty deprives them of the capabilities needed to survive
and develop.”
She further stated that, “Around the world, poor girls and
boys are victims of sexual abuse and are deprived of education. We are
therefore working everyday on all fronts to provide long-term, sustainable and positive
change for children, to ensure their protection, to end violence against
children and to provide them with their right to education and offer good
prospects for the future.”
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