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Aviva Street To School

Street children in India, especially in Delhi and Kolkata, live vulnerable lives without parental support and often work in exploitative conditions. The Street to School program provides a safe route for these children into education by setting up activity centers that provide alternative education, food, medical care and counseling before mainstreaming the children into public schools. The program aims to improve attitudes towards street children from local businesses and police and gain government recognition.

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Aviva Street To School

Street children in India, especially in Delhi and Kolkata, live vulnerable lives without parental support and often work in exploitative conditions. The Street to School program provides a safe route for these children into education by setting up activity centers that provide alternative education, food, medical care and counseling before mainstreaming the children into public schools. The program aims to improve attitudes towards street children from local businesses and police and gain government recognition.

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Aviva Street to School

India has the largest number of street children in the world, with Delhi and Kolkata being home to most
of these children.

Their life on the streets without parental care or adult supervision makes them highly vulnerable to
abuse and exploitation.

Many street children are employed in wayside eateries, rag picking and begging, and are subjected to
large scale wage exploitation by employers and buyers, mental torture and physical harassment by
police and passers-by, and sexual violence by adults and peers.

STREET TO SCHOOL:
To provide a better chance at childhood to these children, Save the Children and Aviva Life Insurance
are together running the Street to School program in Delhi and Kolkata.

With this programme, we are providing street children with a safe and sustainable route out of work and
into school.

Under the project:
We have set up nine educational activity centres for street and working children in Delhi and
Kolkata.

We provide education for one year before mainstreaming them into nearby Government schools

We provide food, alternative education, recreational activities, arts & crafts, music and dance,
life-skill workshops, medical care, and counselling.

We are also improving attitude and increased awareness amongst the trade unions and shop keepers
towards street children. We are also working to increase sensitivity being demonstrated by the police
and positive recognition of the initiative by government officials.

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