Education Program For The Working Children

Name of the Project    :                       “Education Program for the working children”

Duration                     :                       Two (2) Year.

Implementing NGO  :                       Animation Liberate for Organise (ALO)

                                                            Vill: Nowdagram, Post + Dist: Jessore,

Post Box-20, Jessore-7400

Bangladesh

                                                            E-mail: alo2002org@yahoo.com

Contact person.         :                       Md.Anisur Rahman,

                                                            Executive Director.

                                                            Vill: Nowdagram, Post+Dist: Jessore,

Post Box-20, Jessore-7400

Bangladesh

                                                            E-mail: alo2002org@yahoo.com

Bank Information;                            

Animation Liberate For Organize (ALO),

Name of the bank:                             Sonali Bank

                                                            Swift-Code –  BSONBDDH

Account Number:                              CA-1568

Address:                                             Bazar Brance

1. M. M. Road , Jessore.

                                                            Bangladesh.

Legal Status               :                       ALO was registered with The Executive Directorate of

Social Services and NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh vide registration nos.: 

DSS No-Jessore- 484/97

JUO No –  35/2003

FDO/R-1711/2002

Introduction:

Population:

Bangladesh is the most densely populated country in the world with over 153 million people, half of whom are below poverty level and of which 65 million are children and live in 1, 47,570 square Kilometer area. The growth rate has declined, but the population is still expected to rise to 181 million people by 2015. As proportion of Bangladeshis, in urban areas is projected to increase from 23.9 percent to 29.6 percent in 2015.  Therefore, a tremendous pressure would be put on housing, sanitation, health, infrastructure and overall education in the urban city areas. Majority of this vast population is extremely poor. There are more than 36 million people living in poverty (Source: CIA Fact Sheet; July-2002). The General National Income (GNI) per capita is 400 US dollars Thirty-six per cent of the population is living below one US dollar per day.

Education:

Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of illiteracy in the world. The adult literacy rate (2000) is 49 percent (M) and 30 percent (F). Primary school education was declared compulsory in 1991, in 1998-2002 school enrolment rate is 97 per cent (M) and 98 per cent (F). Majority of the enrolled students are boys and drop out rate is extremely high. Secondary school enrolment rate is 45 percent (M) and 49 per cent (F).The Government of Bangladesh has increased its spending on education from 1.5 percent of the total GDP in 1990 to 2.5 percent in 2000. The education facilities are still inadequate. It is estimated that 42.4 million children in Bangladesh are aged between 5 to 17 years; 7.4 million children are economically active. Forty-one percent of this group is girls. Ninety- three percent of the total working children are employed in the informal sector, of which 77 percent (5.7 million) are working in the rural informal sector, while about 16 percent (1.2 million) work in the urban informal sector. (Source- Situation of child labor in Bangladesh –ILO)

Causes of Child Labor:

Increasing Child Labor is a core problem in Bangladesh. Factors such as increase of family dependency on Children’s earning, high demand of child labor in the labor market, inadequate access to services for the children like education, livelihood options, etc., on the other hand traditional values, norms, ethnicity, minority and practices, weak legal protection mechanisms  are contributing to the increase in child labor in Bangladesh.

Children in Bangladesh face violations of children’s rights such as discrimination and various forms of abuse and exploitation. Poverty remains the single most influential factor for the degraded state of children in Bangladesh. Apart from the economic pressure to enter the workforce at such a young age, destitute children in Bangladesh do not have access to basic services such as health and nutrition, education, water and sanitation.  A number of beliefs and practices that are both harmful for children in general and highly sexist continue to be practiced because of the strong faith in cultural norms. 

It is still uncertain how many children in total is a part of the floating population living from street to street.  These children are particularly vulnerable to abuse, trafficking and being in contact with sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. 

Children in Bangladesh are more likely to be attending school than ever before. Bangladesh invests 11.91percent of the total budget allocation in the fiscal year of 2010-11. The gender gap in primary education has narrowed considerably.  However, quality and inclusiveness are the two major issues in the education sector that hamper full realization of children’s rights. Besides the improvement in the school attendance, the gender gap in primary school enrolment has been reduced significantly.  However, about 7 million children of primary school age are either never enrolled or they drop out before completing the full education cycle.  Most of them are from the poorest and neglected sections of the community.

Child marriage continues to be a major problem for especially girl children in today’s Bangladesh.  According to The State of the World’s Children Report 2005, between the years 1986-2003, the rate of child marriage in Bangladesh at the urban areas was 48 per cent, rural areas 70 percent and in aggregate 65 percent of the entire child population.

Child sexual abuse (CSA), exploitation and trafficking are severe problems in Bangladesh.  Many organizations are addressing sexual exploitation and trafficking, but few interventions have been made in addressing children affected by sexual abuse. ALO against the child sexual abuse and exploitation of children including trafficking does address all three forms of child abuse. 

WHO’s Survey:

According to a World Health Organization study, 68 percent of girls and 33 percent of boys under the age of 18 experienced forced sexual intercourse or other forms of physical and sexual violence in 2002. An estimated 1.8 million children are involved in commercial sex work in the entire world population. Many are forced into it, whether they are sold into sexual slavery by desperately poor families or abducted and trafficked into brothels or other exploitative environments. Children exploited in the commercial sex industry are subjected to neglect, sexual violence and physical and psychological abuse.

UNICEF;s Survey:

According to Baseline Survey (BBS, UNICEF and DSS) it is estimate that 7.4 million children are economically active between the ages of 5-17 years and out of them 400,000 are child domestic workers (CDW) who are between the ages of 6-17 years in Bangladesh. 445,226 street based child workers are engaged in different kind of jobs in Bangladesh. A street child working time and hour is not fixed. It varies from early morning to even midnight. Street based child workers are currently involved mainly in day labor such as, shop keeper, vendor, restaurant helper and vagrants (Tokai).

Woman involvement:

Women are at greater risk of contracting HIV than men. One important explanation is physiological – women are at least twice as likely as men to become infected with HIV during sexual intercourse. The other crucial, and largely reversible, factor is social – gender discrimination denies women the negotiating power they need to reduce their risk of infection. High rates of illiteracy among women prevent them from knowing about the risks of HIV infection and possible protection strategies. The dramatic increase in infection among women heightens the risk of infection among children. Infants become infected through their mothers during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding. In 2005, more than 2 million children aged 14 years or younger were living with HIV in the world. For informing more they need education. Education is only solution to eradicate all the problems.

Children condition:

This is also a society where children are not culturally allowed to participate in the decision making process of their own livelihoods.  Children are seen to lack the eloquence to address issues in a political sphere.  Economic inequality has led to the inaccessibility of destitute children to communicate with policy makers.  The current government has promised to the establishment of an independent child rights commission that will act as the defender of children.  With government, we have taken the educational activities to remove ignorance from the society. 

The majority of the people are poor and uneducated, because scarcity of land, lack of food and political unrest .In this situation, people ignore about children care. The economic hardship is caused by having a large population and large member of real families. This has created various kinds of social problems and the incidence of child labor is growing.

In Bangladesh, street children can be defined as those who earn their living on the city streets and stay there for most, or all, of the day. They may or may not have parents or legal guardians. Street children can be broadly defined into two groups: 1) Those who spend all the time in the streets, it being their home, where they eat, sleep, make friends, work and play, but not go for study. 2) Those who spend the day on the streets but return home at night Working children can be defined as those between the ages of 7 and 15 years who are engaged in employment and who may or may not live on the street. Children mainly work as domestic helpers, on transport or in factories, shops and restaurants.

Child labor in Bangladesh has increased alarmingly in recent years. Traditionally, many children have always worked in village agriculture, but the numbers employed in urban industrial and commercial sectors has risen sharply. Working children are a neglected group in Bangladeshi society. They are seen as part of the floating population and are not included in the national census. Laws in Bangladesh do not restrict the employment of children in all kinds of industry except where the nature of work is very strenuous.

The Executive Summary:

Education means mental and moral training. It is the light that clears off the darkness of ignorance from our mental horizon. On the other hand Illiteracy is a curse to man’s life. The poor Children are mainly the main and most victims at the education section in the society. Children education is one of the most important and ongoing programs of the organization as the primary step of all development activities. In the project areas, average about 80% people are illiterate, socially unconscious and involved in working sectors.  The guardians do not send their children to schools for education. Moreover, for being disadvantaged and unawareness areas, they have no educational institutions for their children. So, they are not getting any educational opportunities due to lack of parental awareness and the enough opportunities. The root cause of their unconsciousness is ignorant. Parents do not know how to read and write. Their income is small that they can not afford their daily necessities. They can not buy proper food, cloths, medicine and shelter. In this situation, they cannot send their children in school. They have no enough equipments and tools of learning education. Then how can they send their children in school?  Sometimes they are compelled to engage themselves as prostitutes or as child laborers. Many times they have to work hard or to do risky jobs. In some cases, they become more helpless and are exploited physically or mentally.

As human beings, children have rights to live, read and write. For growing up physically and mentally they need essential elements. Shelter, cloth, education, treatment and recreation are the basic human needs. All the children have the rights to receive these needs. The children may be orphan, helpless and they may be unable to earn their livelihood, but they have the rights to develop their creativities, to take the facilities to make themselves fit for the brightest future and they have also the rights to express their feelings, wishes and their desire. Every child expects to live with his family, wants to have care and affections and wants to build up his life in a suitable way. These are their rights. To establish their rights the United Nations has announced the charter of the rights of the children in 1979. We should help to establish necessary steps. Basic needs should be ensured for them. Proper punishment should be given in the case of the violation of their rights and our Organization is trying to remove and prohibit child labor from the society. Some development programmers have taken through our Organization. ALO has taken major steps to alleviate all the problems from the society. They will be given mental and moral training, light of education. ALO is regularly going to door to door to protect children from going to work and make guardians aware about children education.

Considering above all these problems ALO has taken a massive program to run a project which will be effective in the Urnban area of the Jessore District. The project will take place in Sador, Jessore District, and the beginning date will be from 01/06/11 to 30/05/12. The beneficiaries of the project will be 600 Working children who will study in 20 (Twenty) institutions. The executive Director with the project management teems will operate the whole project activities that means the necessary teachers will be recruited for teaching the working children. 

Parents and teachers must work together and adopt children literacy as a common goal, so that they can be mutually supportive of children as emergent readers and writers. Reading and writing activities occurring in children’s homes can be extended to the classroom, and those occurring in the class-room can be reinforced at home. The following suggestions can be used by teachers. To solve this issues, we need a small financial assistance “Total Project Cost will be in BDT 15, 00,000, ALO Contribute 3,00,000, DONOR Contribute 12,00,000. After ending the project we will collect another fund to sustain the project in future. It is ALO’s promise. Always ALO has a promise to establish light in the society with the help of the donor agencies

Project Background

The project shall be implemented in 20 Urban Communities of the Jessore district town. The organization already have been implementing a number of development projects program in the area where organized groups with the poor and underprivileged women and helping them in the process of development and improvement of their overall socioeconomic conditions.

A law on child labor has taken place in the constitution of Bangladesh with the present world where child labor is prohibited completely. But it is a matter of great sorrow that if we notice at the labor selling centers, we see how the child labor has expanded in realistic picture.  We know that the suitable place for animals is in forests and for child is in the lap of mothers. But the irony of fate that they are now involved in various risky working place. They are doing this risky work only for a piece of bread. What a pity and miserable condition they are facing at so early age. It can not be described in language. Their beautiful place is educational institution where they should had to go for earning knowledge to be a proper personality with whom a nation will rise its head up to know the world. But the real pitiful matter that they are not present in that beautiful place. They are now fighting with life to live in different challenging places in stead of living in the academy. In need of life they are always taking and choosing risky tasks in different working sectors such as in factories, electronic centers, hotels, motor garages, brick fields, tea stall, porter in station, hawker in town, households works in every where there have been serious risk of life. In any time they can lose these valuable lives as like as beautiful flower doing this hard work. If the conscious people of the society or nation or world observe deeply and attentively, then he must not say that any child law exists in this country. Moreover if we look at a child, we become clear that the few rich people of this country make them use like a toy doll as their wishes and will. The rich people of the society do not admit that the risky children have pleasure, hobbies, and have dreams like ten children else.  The main cause of it that they have born in poor family. Because of their bearing in poor family, they have been destroyed forever. With coming in this world, their dream has been spoiled for everlasting. We want the change of this evil humanity, the rights on living like other ten children else especially in the educational places. For this purpose and for their development and progress. ALO wants to establish 20 educational centers for the working children in Jessore District for their developed life and progressive life relentlessly. Organization is in deep meditation with these children because they are absolutely deprived from the basic needs. In support of ALO they are dreaming for bright future and is being exposed the hopeful future. Through discussion with elite persons   ALO is trying to bring them into academy for education. The children who dropped out from the educational centers worked in various working places. Our Organization has planned to develop 600 children for writing, reading and simple account. Organization ALO has been planning to establish 20 educational centers for running these educational activities. In every educational center, 30 children will be attended for increasing their knowledge according to their time. Apart from this, community leaders, elite person and common people of the society will join with this project. The children will get 2 hours for studying as their opportunities and in educational centers they will enjoy cultural function for recreation, awareness capacity building and learning knowledge for which weekly one day will be selected for them. Target beneficiaries will be able to come under the shade of development through this program and the children will be able to find out the direction of life. Thus the proportion rate of the children from the working field will be reduced. It will be easy to protect them from trafficking and social superstition. For their development and well direction, this project has been prepared so that the children can stand on their own foot in future.   

Project beneficiaries:

600 slum-working children of the target areas of the project will be the direct beneficiaries and indirectly other community children will be benefited.   

Project location:

             District.                        Upazilla.                      Unions.                         Number of word   

             Jessore                          Sadar                       Pourasava                                 20

2.3    Socio-economic situation of the project area :

The project shall be implemented in 20 Slums and Slum type communities of the Jessore District town. There have a total of 1,449 families in these 20 slums and there have a total of 7,990 populations in these slums. Only 22% adult population is literate but the literacy rate among women is only 12% which has been much lower than that of the National literacy rate for the women.

Though they have been living in the urban areas they can’t enjoy the urban facilities like water supplies, electricity, roads and others. No health services are available and accessible to these slums. Still women of these slums are dependent on the traditional Birth Attendants for the delivery purposes.

The peoples of these slums are mainly wage earners, Rickshaw pullers, small shop keepers, Vendors, hawkers small business etc per capita income US $ 100-120/month and with the income they can hardly meet their daily requirements.

Child workers in urban area:

In Jessore District, urban working children either live on the street or in overcrowded slum and squatter settlements. There are 30,000 children under the age of 15 working in urban areas, which is 17 percent of the total urban labor force. The work in industry, transport, commerce, domestic service, metal & leather factories, construction and in garment factories. 20 percent of the total labor force in the District of .2000 work in agriculture. Most children work for their families-the boys in various working sectors in the District and the girls mainly working at home. The children of those families, who are landless, work for factory’s owners in town.  Most families in rural areas, who are better off financially, use children in their homes as domestic helpers and for cattle tending and other agriculture work. Children also work in small shops, tea stalls, handloom and bin’ factories and the fishing industry. Most working children do not have the opportunity to attend school. There is a large scale adult unemployment in Bangladesh, so, one wonders why child labor exists. Some studies over the past few years have put forward the following reasons:

Poverty and family size:

In the target area, the average family size is six persons. In families where children work, the father often works as either a rickshaw puller or day laborer and the mother as a domestic help. Poverty leads to quarrels; tension and can ultimately result in cruel treatment of children. The mother, being over burdened with work, can loose interest in her children and neglect them. 56% of people of District, Jessore are landless. They either work on the land of others on a contact basis, or become floating labor moving from place to place. Without a stable income the children become a burden to parents and must find work for their own survival.

Victims of migration:

In general, neglected children migrate to big cities with their families or alone. Often they must beg or drift on the streets in order to earn a living and will consider any work that helps them survive.

Illiteracy & ignorance:

Many parents of working children are illiterate and unskilled with little prospect of being able to improve their situation. There is a lack of faith in the existing education system as it does not necessarily lead to employment. Many poor parents feel that it is better for their children to learn by working rather than sending them to school.

Child labor law and rights

In practice, child labor laws in Bangladesh do not protect working children. Employers prefer children as they are cheap, productive and obedient. Children working in the industrial sector have no contract of employment and so find it difficult to stand up for themselves and fight for their rights. The demand by factories for child laborers is increasing all the time.

Family breakdown

Migration of families, broken families, parental abuse and abandonment, all lead to child labor.

Natural calamities

Floods, land erosion, cyclones etc., have a devastating affect on many area of Bangladesh every year. This further increases the pressures on poor families and leads to many new children entering the labor force. Working children are used and exploited for the benefit of the better-off sector of society. This is not really deliberate exploitation of children by the wealthy, but rather reflects the attitude of society, of children as a source of cheap labor. Child workers are always faced with bad working conditions, unfixed wages, health hazards, lack of recreation and are exposed to mental, physical and sexual harassment. Child labor is prohibited in Bangladesh under the Employment of Children Act, 1938; The Children (Pledging of Labor) Act, 1933; The Factories Act, 1965; The Plantations Labor Ordinance, 1962 and The Shops and Establishment Act, 1965. All these laws prohibit the employment of children below 14 years of age. In spite of these laws, children can be found working in garment factories, hotels, brick making, biri factories, mechanical workshops, match factories, agricultural work, domestic work, and as garbage collectors and touts on buses and tampos.

In Bangladesh, children work because they and their families are poor and so there is no immediate prospect of eliminating child labor. But that does not mean that nothing can be done. The priority must be to ensure that children are excluded from dangerous and physically demanding work. Children are the future leaders of our nation. By neglecting their basic rights and hampering their process of growth, we are restricting the development of our country.

Aim of project

The main aim of this project is to establish the rights of the working children of the 20 selected slum and slum type areas of the Jessore District town.

Objectives of project:

# To run 20 Non-formal Schools in 20 slums and like urban communities and educate 600 illiterate working children up to class three equivalent of the formal schools in 30 months period.

# To mobilize the whole peoples of the 20 project communities towards development of a favorable environment for the working children through arranging community meetings, posters, small group discussions, etc.

# To observe World Child Rights day, arrange sports for the students of Schools, each year of the project.

# To arrange protest processions of the working children against violence and torture on them.

# To organize the working children into 20 School based groups and form a federation of these 20 groups.

# To conduct the basic training for 20 teachers, Program orientation training for the 4 Field organizers, Leadership and group management training for the 20 leaders of Working Children’s groups and Account management training for the 20 cashiers of these groups.

# To educate the 600 working children about their rights.

Project beneficiaries

There are 5,000 children in the slums of Jessore District and out of them about 2000 are the working children. Those have been working mainly in Hotels, restaurants, factories, shops etc and involved in Hawker and various vending business, show polishing etc. Out of these 2000 working children 600 children are the direct beneficiaries of this project. These children are mainly factory workers, Hotel and restaurant boys, garage workers, hawkers, vendors and similar working children.

The beneficiary children had never the scope of education and they had to start economic activities due to the acute poverty of their families. They are to face various problems in their work places; they are often the victims of torture and violence etc. They do not get their real wage/ salaries etc.

Project justification

There have a large number of working children in Jessore Town and its suburb areas those have been working in factories, industries, hotels, restaurants, in house holds and others vending various items and hawking etc. However these working children;

# Had no scope to attend in any formal and non-formal schools and assumed remain illiterate in the rest of the lives.

# These children are often the victims of torture and violence of their masters and the polices etc in their work-places.

# The peoples of their society and environment are not aware of the rights of the children especially of the working children which has been an cause for the disfavorable situation/environment for the working children.

# The children those working in the factories, hotels and in other institutions do not get their real remuneration’s wages etc.

In this situation of the working children, a project to support these children for establishment of their rights and protect them for violence, torture and unjust etc is very important, needed and well justified.

 Project targets in Quantitative term :

Activities   Targets                        Yr-1                Yr-2                Yr-3                    Total

1. Community Coverage 20 20                    20                      20

2. Staff & workers to be

    recruited for project

# Project Coordinator                            1                                                                       1

# Accountant                                        1                                                                       1

# Field Organizers                                4                                                                       4

# Teachers                                          20                                                                      20

3. Run Schools 20                    20                    20                      20

     Students                                        600                   600                  600                     600

4. Arrange meetings
5. Community meetings 100                   100                   00

   #  No of participants                        2000                 2000                4000

1. Working children’s Masters

        Meetings                                     10                    10                    10                      30

    #  No of participants                        200                   200                  200                     600

5. Conduct training courses

    and no of participants

# Staffs, Workers program

   Orientation training                            6                      x                      x                       6

# Teachers basic training                      20                     x                      x                       20

# Leadership and group man

  agreement training for the leaders

  of the WCGs                                      x                     20                    20                      40

# Account management training

   for WCG cashiers                              x                     20                    20                      40

6. Arrange Annual sports of

    the students                                      1                      1                      1                       3

7. Provide litigation supports for

    violence and torture on working

    children No no of Case                      3                      3                      3                       9

8. Arrange rally/protest processions

    of working children against

    violence and  torture on them.            1                      1                      1                       3

9. Publish and distribute posters

    on working children.                       600                   600                  600                     1800

10. Formation of groups and

     federations of the working

     children.

#  No of groups                                    x                     20                     x                       20

#  No of members (children)                  x                    600                    x                       600

#  No of members of the

    Federation (Groups)                          x                     20                     x                       20

11. No of working Children to

     be educated on their rights.             600                   600                  600                     600

• Operational measures for the project :

1. Selection of the Schools :

20 Schools will be selected for the 20 Slums/slum like communities of the Jessore town. The respective communities at no cost will provide the place of the schools.

1. Selection of the students :

30students will be selected for each of the Night schools and thus 600 students will be selected for the 20 Night schools. The students will be selected out of the working children only and the following selection caterer will be maintained in selection.

# The students must be illiterate and working children.

# The students must be enrolled from the 20 selected slum communities only.

# A member of the poor and poorest family.

# Age must be above 10 years.

# Willing to get admitted in the school.

1. Run Schools :

one School will be run in each slum and thus 20 schools in the selected 20 slums enroll 30 illiterate working children in each school. As the working children remain involved in various works, they do not get any time in the day time and as such it  is suitable for the working children in the afternoon/evening.

Recruit one Teacher for each School and thus 20 Teachers for the 20 schools. The Teachers will be recruited from the respective communities/area and for a 30 months term. They will be paid some monthly incentive for their services.

The education course will be for 36 months. The school and the students will be supplied necessary education materials and other logistic supplies at free of cost. The followings will be supplied to the schools and students.

One successful student will acquire the education equivalent to class three of the formal primary schools. It is expected that a good part of the students will get admitted into the formal schools.

Form one School Committee for each of the Night school which will manage the night school and see its interests.

Child rights education will be a part of the education course. The 600-students/working children will sufficiently be educated and conscious about their basic rights and such rights education will help the working children establish their rights.

1. Consciousness and awareness program :

# Arrange community meetings

Towards development of a favorable situation for the working children and ensure well acceptance of the project to the people arrange 5 community meetings in each slum area and thus 5 meetings in the first year 5 meetings in the 2nd and another 5 meetings in the 3rd year in the 20 communities.

Attend 20 persons in each meeting and thus 100 persons of a community will participate in 5 meetings in a year. In these meetings discuss about the child rights especially rights of working children, their violation etc.

# Arrange working children’s Teacher meetings:

Arrange 10 meetings of the Teacher /employer of the working children. In each meeting participate 20 Teacher of the working children. In the first year 10 second year 10 and in the third year another 10 such meetings will be arranged and participated by 20 Teacher of the working children. In the meetings, discuss about the rights of the working children, their violation, responsibilities of Teacher etc.

# Publish and distribute posters :

Publish 600 posters yearly on the Rights Violation of the working children and thus 1200 posters in distribute them in important places within the 20 project communities.

1. Arrange Annual sports :

Arrange one annual sports competition each year for the students of the 20 schools Thus in 3 (three) years such sports competition will be arranged.

1. Litigation supports :

The working children have been often become the victims of torture and violence. And under this project each year 3 such victims will be provided necessary support for taking legal steps/litigation procedures. In two years 6 victims will receive such litigation supports.

1. Arrange pretest procession :

Arrange a number of pretest processions of the working children against violence and torture on them.

1. Formation of Working Children Group :

Form one Group of working children in each of the slum and thus 20 such groups will be formed with 600 working children in the 20 communities. There have 20 working children in each groups members. The group formation will help develop strong protection measures against violence and torture on them. In the third year a federation of these 20 groups will be formed which will strengthening the groups capabilities.

• Staffing of project :

The following staffs and workers will be recruited for this project.

Name of post                 No of post            Qualification                  Experiences

1. Project Coordinator 1 Graduate                     3 years experiences

2. Accountant 1 B. Com                      3 years experiences

3. Field Organizers 4 HSC                         2 years experiences

4. Teachers 20 SSC                        x

• Result / impacts of the project :

# 600 illiterate working children will be educated up to class three  equivalents which will give them a new taste of their lives and the education will help them in better planning their lives.

# The 600 children will be sufficiently educated on their rights which help them establish their rights.

# As demonstration effects other working children of the area will be educated on their rights.

# A favorable environment will be developed for the working children in the 20 communities.

Operation/Action Plan:

The action plan has been prepared with the discussion of the group leaders and the staff members considering the local situation, environment, seasons, etc. 

            Sl.        Activity.                                              Time frame.                           Responsible

            No.                                                                                                                                   persons.

1. PIC Formation & orientation.                1st.week, January 2005             ED/EC.
2. Staff selection.                                       Do.                                           ED/EC/PC.
3. Staff Training/orientation.                     1^st. Week, January. 2005        C/Trainer/PC.      
4. Revolving Fund utilization.                   Do.                                            Do.
5. Staff program review meeting.             1st.week of each month.            All staff.
6. Reporting.                                              Monthly.                                    FC/AC.
7. Reporting to the donor.                          Quarterly.                                  ED/PC.
8. Program Supervision,

             follow up and monitoring.                       Whole the year by                      FS.

                                                                                       monthly by                                FC/PC.

                                                                                       Quarterly by                              PC/ED.

9. PIC meeting.                              Monthly.                                    PIC members.
10. Auditing(External).                    Yearly.                                       External Team.
11. Evaluation(Internal).                 Half yearly.                               Internal Team.
12. Final Evaluation.                        At the end of project                 External Team.                                                                                       period.                                        

The above mentioned operational plan will be followed up in the project activity implementations of the 2nd. year and 3rd. year with necessary changes according to the recommendations of the internal and external evaluations and also as per the suggestion of the monitoring reports.

Project Impacts:

More conscious, organized, united cooperated, skilled and capable people. Built people’s institution and create joint actions. Establish women’s rights and demands. Improved the nutritional status in the community, created employment and income earning opportunities and involved women in economic and productive activities. Increased women’s social value, participation in decision-makings, reduced negligence to women. Established gender relation in the community. Improved community health and family economic status, well managed groups, activities, accounts and records, capable staff and beneficiaries.

1. ii) Staff Appointment:

Each and every project needs some personnel to carry out the project activities smoothly and effectively.  So, for this project necessary project staff members will be selected and appointed from the present volunteers. But technical personnel will be collected from the out side. After appointment, they will be provided a-5 day long training and orientation about the project objectives and implementation procedures and then they will be deputed in the field to perform their duties and responsibilities.

iii)      Needed Personnel Inputs:

The following personnel will be involved to achieve the project goal and objectives and smooth running of the project activities:

1. Coordinator                 –           1
2. Field Supervisor          –           1
3. Accountant                  –           1
4. Field Organizer           –           5
5. Teachers                                  20