Home for Destitute.pptx. This slide explain about Home for destitute .
- 2. A person applying for support will be considered destitute if they do not have access to 'adequate accommodation' or they cannot meet their 'essential living needs' now or within the next 14 days. These are homes for people who do not have anybody to care These homes mostly provide shelter and food. This may include men, women, aged and children who do have family or relatives to take care of them. Magnitude of the problem: Worldwide 100 million children and in India 11 million children are living in the street. Majority (89.8%) of children live in the street with their parents/ family
- 3. Categories of street children •First category: Street living children who have run away from their families and live alone on the streets. Also called children 'off' the street. •Second category: Street working children, who spend most of their time on the streets feeding for themselves, but return home on a regular basis. Also called children 'on' the street. •Third category: Children from street families who live on the street with their family.
- 4. Reasons to become street children •Economic conditions: Poverty forces many to leave the homes to live or make a living on the streets. •Family problems: Children leave homes due to the ill- treatment of step-father or step-mother •Alcoholism: Father or mother or both of them havethe habit of drinking and quarrelling children leave home and run to streets seeking peaceful life
- 5. •Sexual abuse: If members of the family or relatives abuse boys and girls in the family either sexually or to commit crimes children escape from them and end up on the streets in towns and cities. •Failure on the side of the parents: To send the child to school or withdraw the child from school to do domestic work or take care of cattle and sheep to the local landlords to earn income for the family. •Natural calamities: Those children, who are rendered helpless by the natural calamities such as earth quakes, tsunami, volcanic eruption and those who lost both their parents in accidents end up as street children.
- 6. •Children affected with mental health; come to the streets on their own unconsciously or drives away from the homes. •Love affairs: Love affairs between girls and boys and severe objection from the parents due to caste or tribes factor forces them to run to towns and cities and work and live on streets till they find a place in a slum. •Illegitimately: Young children of unwedded mothers and sex workers are taken to faraway places and abandoned in railway situations and bus stands
- 7. Strategies to alleviate the problem •Making health care facilities available. •Street based health education which focus on family planning, personal hygiene, STIs, HIV, etc. •Looking for possibilities to reunite with their families. •Integrated programme for street children was started as initiatives to help street children to fulfill their rights. The programme provides food, shelter. nutrition, health care, education, recreation facilities and protect them against abuse and exploitation.
- 8. Functions of destitute homes •Promote awareness through training, speech. seminars, camps and street plays. •Mass media on alternative resources. •Provide and promote education on alternative resources •Provide industrial education, management education and training up to top level in the growing world. •Training the youth towards national integration. skill, leadership, rural development, etc
- 9. . •Awareness to women to compete in the modern world. •Care for old ages and orphans •Training and exercises for physically and mentally challenged people •Minimize alcoholism and rehabilitation facilities for de addiction. •Impart skill training to adolescent girls and boys and to create awareness on HIV, AIDS, etc •Promote and carry on research activities.
- 10. •Make aware the humanity through seminar, talks, training camps, etc •Providing shelter, food and clothes. •Attention to their health and wellbeing. •Support and care to perform activities of daily living. • Providing social, economic and physical security. • Improving quality of life and self-fulfilment •Restore self-esteem and dignity