Comprehensive Child Protection in Slums of India
The project aims to work with the exploited and at-risk children from poor and marginalised families living in the urban slums of Coimbatore, India with the overall objective of improved access to education, health, child protection and socio-economic development, and social protection for their families.
Children from urban slums in India are highly vulnerable to exploitaiton
Anne Priya
Project Officer
Background
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Coimbatore city has a total of 319 pockets of slums with 46,650 households. The majority of the population (slums and suburban areas in Coimbatore) live in single-room houses with tiled roofs and poor /absent basic amenities. In addition to the socioeconomic vulnerabilities of the families, the major protection concerns/violation of child rights could be summarised as under:
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Goals
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Approach
Baseline study
Promotion of Child Protection Committee
Working with Relevant Stakeholders
Children as Change Agents
Enhanced health care outreach
Social Protection
Results
Education, Health Care and Child Protection
Social Protection
Livelihood
Our Partners
Wipro Cares
Children of India Foundation