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Children in street situations

What is their condition?

What

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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.

Who

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.

How

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.

Impact

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.

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14,756
Children Reached

5,407
Present Children

45
Homes

5
Hostels

10
Cities

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What Makes Us Different

Working with Public, Private and Community

● 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

Open, voluntary and Non-Custodial

● 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.

Child Centric
  • These community and child-centric comprehensive caring models follow Child Rights, UN Convention on Child Rights, RTE (Right to Education), SMSA (Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan) and childcare protocols. The JJ licensed homes follow JJ Act 2015
  • Children have a full say in their development journey via child participatory exercise in the form of Bal Sabha (child meets), committees, and Child Participatory Reviews.

Accountable & Transparent
  • All homes undergo annual financial, legal, childcare safety and program audits.
  • Individual child profiles with a real-time database MIS – Rainbow Online Reporting (ROR) and data-driven KPIs are placed to track their growth and program impact.
  • Regular Programmatic and financial Monitoring and review by internal teams and periodical evaluations by external supporters and experts.

Rainbow

Home

Sunbursts in the lives of vulnerable children and youth help and fulfilling hope.

Our Endorsements & Impressions

SSA

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan framework for implementation. Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education and Literacy

TISS

Rainbow Homes, Sunbursts in the Lives of the Vulnerable Girls: A Study by Tata Institute of Social Sciences

UNICEF

Comprehensive Care and Protection of the Street and Homeless Children: A Study by Anita Kaul, supported by UNICEF

Save The Children

Caring for the children in street situations: Good practices and approaches. A study by Save the Children

ERU India

Caring for the children in street situations: Good practices and approaches. A study by Save the Children

Our Supporters

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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