Stopping Child Labour in Cigarette Factories

Summary

Helping children from 'untouchable' communities in rural India escape poverty, child-labor in cigarette factories, child-marriage & ill-health through education, health care & livelihood support.

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	$15 - Provides access to kindergarten facilities for one child for a year
	$25 - Targeted tuition support for one child for their 4th + 10th std exams
	$50 - Health checks and medicine for all the children in one primary centre for a year
	$100 - Toys and educational material for 25 children in a primary centre for a year
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Caste & religious discrimination results in these families being dependent on bonded labor rolling raw tobacco into cigarettes. Children are at risk through exposure to the tobacco atmosphere in the womb, as infants & as child-laborers (from 7 yrs old). The children are from low-caste Hindu, Tribal & Muslim families who are uneducated, do not own land or have alternative livelihoods.11500 children in the project villages will be helped, along with their families; a total of 40,000 people.

Activities

Providing an integrated program of education, health-care & livelihood schemes stopping child labor, including provision of access to education (20 pre-school and crèche facilities), mobile health clinics & micro-finance self-help savings groups.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $198
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $58,713
Total Funding Goal: $58,911

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Each child can access education, proper health care, nutrition, and recreation to enable them to have a childhood free from child-labour and child-marriage, and to support their overall development and the completion of their education.

Project Message

"I have to work hard but I think that I will see a different future for Vanita and Rishikesh.Before, I used to wonder ‘what is all this work for?’, but now I see them happy and learning
- Anita Jedgule, Cigarette - 'bidi' - worker and mother.

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Dryan Kitchener,
Project Manager
Karuna Trust
72 Holloway Rd
London, UK N7 8JG
United Kingdom
02077003434
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Project Sponsor

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Organization

Karuna Trust
72 Holloway Road
London, England N7 8JG
United Kingdom
+44 (0)207 700 3434
http://www.karuna.org/

Learn more about Karuna Trust and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Education.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 07, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 17, 2007.

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