Key Objectives
To provide living essentials in the areas of health, nutrition, hygiene and sanitation, and safe living spaces for children.
To provide opportunities for all-round development through education, life skills, recreation, and preparation for independent living.
To build the capacity of CCI management & staff for sustained outcomes.
The Implementation Model
We aim to act as ‘catalysts‘ - partnering with child care institutions and supporting them to improve the quality of care for children
How Do We Bridge the Gap?
We start with a comprehensive gap analysis that determines the needs of the CCI and informs our interventions.
We devise a detailed engagement plan to address the identified gaps.
We roll out need-based interventions under three categories: Health and Necessities, Learning and Development, and Emotional Wellness.
We measure progress on a quarterly and annual basis to evaluate the outcomes of our interventions.
Our interventions at Child Care Institutions
Construction of toilets, kitchens, potable drinking water, etc. Supplementary nutrition support where required Sanitation/hygiene kits and daily essentials.
Out-of-school academic support through the appointment of tuition teachers Provision of educational materials (uniforms, books, stationery, etc.) Coaching for 10th and 12th grade children.
Sessions on 21st-century life skills Adolescent health education program, including skill and attitude development on sexual and related topics.
Day To Day Essential
Objective:
To ensure basic day to day requirements are available
On-ground Approach/Interventions:
- 1. Providing innerwear, footwear and other essentials
Infrastructure to improve health & hygiene
Objective:
To support in improving hygienic living conditions
On-ground Approach/Interventions:
- 1. Support basic repairs and toilet constructions
- 2. Support for beds and clean bedding kits, water filters and other essentials
Digital Engagement Program
Objective:
To engage the child/young adult in educational content and other meaningful activity ensuring a connect with teachers / mentors who are unable to visit them within CCI premises during lockdown.
On-ground Approach/Interventions:
- 1. Equip each CCI with digital infrastructure such as Computer Labs / laptops and a Wi-fi plan that will enable the children have access to digital content.
- 2. Curate and collect educational and recreational content.
- 3. Introduce on-line discussion sessions with CSA Program Officers and experts.
- 4. Identify a “family circle” for every child.
Learn with fun
Objective:
Creating an ecosystem for fun and learning
On-ground Approach/Interventions:
- 1. Arranging educational visits to historic places
- 2. Festival celebration
- 3. Learning through extracurricular forums & hobby classes
Health, Hygiene & Sanitation
Objective:
To improve basic health, hygiene & sanitation conditions of children & CCIs, thus eventually ensuring better health & living condition of institutionalized children
On-ground Approach/Interventions:
- 1. Bi-yearly basic health checkups in Aug & Feb months under 4 areas – Dental, Eye, ENT & Physical & Others
- 2. Prescribed treatment support to the respective children based on health check-up results
- 3. Organization of awareness training on basic health care & hygiene for children and staff
- 4. Availability of basic & additional hygiene kit and sanitation material to the children &CCI respectively
Improve Health – BMI status of children
Objective:
To ensure and help in maintaining balanced BMI status & good health of the children
On-ground Approach/Interventions:
- 1. Consultation with nutritionist based on BMI status, post health check-ups
- 2. Provision of prescribed support to the children based on health status/requirement
- 3. Regular follow-up & monitoring of the provided support to the children
Education
Objective:
To Improve basic learning level of the children
On-ground Approach/Interventions:
- 1. Out of the school academic support through Tuition training for language & Mathematics
- 2. Recruitment of Tuition Teachers (TTs) and bi-yearly training on innovative teaching & learning practices
- 3. Baseline & Endline assessments to review the intervention and impact
- 4. Focused Bi-monthly classroom engagements by CSA Program Officers
- 5. Monthly Staff Review staff with all the TTs and trustees/CCI manager
- 6. Provision of education material – school uniforms, shoes, stationery etc, availability and support for school fees
Life-Skills (from year 2 onwards)
Objective:
To help in development of key life skills competencies
On-ground Approach/Interventions:
- 1. Imparting 25 Life skills sessions on 21stcentury life skills (Communication, Self-Awareness, Critical Thinking, Collaboration& Self Esteem) to 14+ age children in a year time frame with the help of CSA POs
- 2. Baseline & Endline assessments
- 3. Imparting Adolescent Health Education Program (AHP) on knowledge, skill and attitude development on sexual health and related aspects
Vocational Education
Objective:
To provide skills to children based on their interest through various vocational education training
On-ground Approach/Interventions:
- 1. Organization/execution of various vocational education training for 14+ yrs children (e.g. – computer training, self-defense etc.)
Our Presence
CSA has a presence in 42 districts across 4 states, i.e., Maharashtra, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, and Odisha.
CSA operates in 35 districts across these states.
CSA is currently supporting 5,000+ children across 111 Child Care Institutions.
