During
the 2008-2010 period, the Day Care Centers project in Hadapsar community involved
activities specifically designed for children under 14. Thus, the Centers
became the safe and protective environment street children need to live
childhood experiences that provide the necessary resources and encouragement to
become part of society as autonomous and capable individuals.
Given the
excellent results of the project, our new goal was to turn the Day Care Centers
into Community Centers that would meet the demands of community development as
a whole. The increasingly alarming finding that the wellbeing of children can
never be complete if work is not also carried out with the rest of the
community has led us to expand our range of activities to support parents and the
community as well, so that their conditions of extreme poverty and exclusion can
be addressed.
Without
neglecting direct care to children through tutoring and education campaigns,
the new direction of the project will allow us to go from 80 beneficiaries (the
children who attended the Day Care Centers) to a total of 2000 people,
including the children, teens and adults in Hadapsar community.
