Education and Sponsorship
Some children need your love and support in order to go to school, to be taken care of, to be well nourished, to learn a trade etc. In short, they need to have the same chance as your own children.Sponsoring children is to enable them to get a good education, to grow in good health, to build a future different from the one of their parents, to be able to take responsibility for themselves, and also to help others to progress. This financial help, together with further subsidies and donations, benefits the family. It also enables Volontariat to help with developing projects beyond academic activities (water supply, disease prevention and health care, family planning and building houses with permanent structure).
Education and sponsorship
The decision to receive a child inside the Sponsorship programme is taken after favorable enquiries of the social workers and agreement of the I/Charge. It is based on several criteria linked with the socio economical situation of the family: number of persons, nature of lodging, the income, the distance to our centers, etc. In fact a majority of families concerned with the Sponsorship programme are living at a few km of Volontariat center Sakthi Vihar.
Our ambition for the children is to bring them each of them, right from the date they are taken into our care, (and very often as early as crèche or nursery school), to their training for a job. Therefore, it is long-term action that also needs long-term support.
Among the various programmes of Volontariat, Parrainage is the most important: more than 1400 children are sponsored [few years ago, it was decided not to go above that number in order to insure the best service with the existing means]. They benefit from a wide range of services: school fees, extra curricular activities, beginners’ course in computing, health care, nutrition, apprenticeship etc.
After a study of the socio economical situation of some families, with the referent social workers, it may be decided to directly give a help to improve their living conditions: groceries, table/chairs, fan, mosquitonet, etc… When the family is too fat from our centers, Volontariat may pay for tuitions for the sponsored children; if the number living in such area becomes important, Volontariat may delocalize evening classes and teachers provided that a place is found.
Volontariat also helps in non-sponsored children (school stationery, uniforms etc.) in special cases. Together with crèche and nursery school applications, files submitted to the committees – with the “unavoidable” special cases, there are up to1800 children who benefit, in full or partly, from sponsorship programme.
