Rainbow Homes Program (RHP) is a pan-India movement providing long-term non-custodial, comprehensive, child-centric and community-based care to children from the street and other vulnerable situations.
These children were abandoned, have survived from violent and abusive situations, have grownup in hunger, food and insecurity of homelessness, forced into begging, rag picking, engaged in hazardous and unclean work, abuse, with mental trauma and faced violence, victims of sexual, physical and mental abuse, children of sex workers and manual scavengers in rural and urban India.
Rainbow Homes Program rescues/identifies, reaches and protects these children from a life of uncertainty, helplessness and impending criminalisation through its residential and community-based care. RHP enables these children and youth to become contributing citizens with Self-reliant and dignified life with a job, housing and social networks.
Since 2002, RHP has reached out to over 14,650 formally street children. The program currently cares for nearly 5,200 children and young adults across 10 cities in India through 48 Rainbow Homes & Sneh Ghars, 15 Rainbow Community Care & Learning Centres (RCCLC), and The Futures Program.
14,756
Children Reached
5,407
Present Children
45
Homes
5
Hostels
10
Cities
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● The living spaces for Rainbow Homes and care and learning centres are located in government schools, private schools and community centres allotted without cost.
● A credible collaboration with parents/guardians government, civil society, public & private institutions and individuals.
● Children attend government schools in the vicinity and often where the homes are located, thereby increasing pupil strength. It is a win-win situation for the child and for the school, as the child reclaims childhood and the school gets the students’ strength.
● Youth going to colleges and other college institutions for vocational and job-oriented courses
● Children in consent of parents decide to leave the streets and join the Rainbow Homes.
● Open Hearts, Open Gates – where children live in a non-threatening/controlled environment, journey via child participatory intervention.
● Families and guardians are proactively involved and children are not locked
● Children with families decide to leave the street.
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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan framework for implementation. Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education and Literacy
Rainbow Homes, Sunbursts in the Lives of the Vulnerable Girls: A Study by Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Comprehensive Care and Protection of the Street and Homeless Children: A Study by Anita Kaul, supported by UNICEF
Caring for the children in street situations: Good practices and approaches. A study by Save the Children
Caring for the children in street situations: Good practices and approaches. A study by Save the Children
We’re thankful to the following supporters and many more individual supporters who have been part of our Rainbow Homes journey.
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