THEMATIC AREAS
Education and Child Rights
Children pushed into child labour, children facing abuse in the community, children affected by a calamity or emergency situation. Despite the rampant economic growth in the last two decades, lakhs of children in India continue to be exposed to different forms of exploitation – mental and physical. For example, a shocking 10.1 million children (aged 5-14 years) are still into the abhorrent practice of child labour which is destroying their childhood
Children and young people are the future of our world. India has the largest number of young people in the world nearly half of its population.To make the most of this enormous demographic potential, we need to fight poverty and unemployment – the twin nemesis that threaten to turn our demographic dividend into a disaster. In India, there are 600 million young people living below the poverty line. The number of unemployed young people in India is 29.5 million!
The fight against poverty begins at school. Creating a safe conducive learning environment for children at schools, enabling children to complete secondary education, imbuing them with life skills like teamwork, problem-solving, communication, making them more resilient to the fallouts of poverty, will set in motion the process to undo poverty.
Our work
JKS’ activities are focused on promoting child centric, quality and inclusive non-threatening environment for all children to learn and grow. Equity based strategies are developed to ensure that each child has access to quality education is ushered by effective implementation of Right to Education Act, 2009. Moreover, the Education programme aims to increase enrolment, retention, achievement and completion rates in elementary education, with a special emphasis on girls and children from socially disadvantaged groups.
JKS activities also include supporting children in primary schools, dropouts, out of school, never enrolled and problem children from the marginalized, under privileged and excluded communities the opportunities for access to quality education that enable them for their long term continued education. Active involvement and participation of the community and its relevant stakeholders towards their children’s education form the nucleus of the program.
JKS’s accomplishments in children’s education, child rights and development includes
- 2425 drop out children were mainstreamed into the formal schools through 97 NFE centres
- 525 child workers/out of school children were re-integrated into formal schools after residential bridge course, for their continued education
- School Management Committees, women SHGs and relevant stakeholders in the community are capacitated and facilitated to promote and monitor children’s education and their rights
- Introduction of Multi Grade Multi Level (MGML) activity based teaching and learning at the bridge school was introduced for mainstreaming drop out children into the formal school for their continued education
- Computer Aided Learning, Yoga and extra-curricular activities to develop different skills among the children in the bridge school
- Promoted 41 Children’s clubs enhancing child rights and protection
- Sensitized community and promoted universal Birth Registration
- Developed child protection Policy and code of conduct and it is being effectively introduced within the organization and its operational areas
- Training and workshops for the staff were conducted for the staff of the organization to sensitize them on child rights and protection issues
- A National level joint workshop on “Development and implementation of institutional Child Safeguarding Policies as well as networking with local Child Protection Systems” is being organized by the organization in collaboration with Kindernothilfe (KNH) as lead organization, together with Karl Kübel Stiftung (KKS), ChildFund Germany and Terre des Homes (TdH) Germany and KKID- Coimbatore KKS – Germany, KKID – Coimbatore with the support of BMZ - Germany