By Mihir Dave | Documentation Officer
Shaishav believes that all children should enjoy basic rights and experience the joys of childhood equally; that all children should become productive, socially sensitive, and democratically skilled citizens. In our constant endeavor to improve the lives of children, child laborers in particular, Shaishav collaborated with Adhar, an organization actively working in the tribal belt across the District of Dahod since last 2 decades. Adhar has an experience working with forced migrants of unskilled laborers in the area. Migration in search of employment, results in a poor education amongst the children of the community which again results in never ending cycle of illiteracy amongst the community.
In pursuance of being highly effective in the long run, Adhar under the professional guidance of Shaishav Team, have started interacting with the people of 5 out of 10 villages targeted for the project and undertook the door to door survey work. The main purpose of this survey is to establish the exact number of children required to be engaged in formal as well as informal education. It also aims to find out numbers of workforce migrate for employment which causing long term negative impact for their children and also to find number of children engaged in child labor due to poor economic condition. The ongoing survey is also expected to undertake advocacy with the Govt. machinery in future. The same is expected to be completed by the end of July 2015 and the actual grass root work will be commenced soon after.
In June 2015, senior team members from Shaishav visited the area to overlook the ongoing survey work and also identified and recruited staff for grass root activity, post survey. The team has guided the local resources in handling the survey work more effectively, efficiently and accurately.
Shaishav and Adhar envisage the dream to break the deep rooted generational cycle of unskilled labor through a holistic approach to education, recognizing that a ‘well-rounded,’ democratically-skilled child has an increased chance to work as a skilled laborer.
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