Sustainable Livelihood Support to Children at Risk

Context/Situation Analysis

  • Homes/shelters destroyed/dismantled
  • Livelihood system destroyed/damaged
  • School education disturbed
  • Unemployment increased
  • Disintegration of families
  • Migration/trafficking increased

Challenges

  • Insecurity increased (income, shelter, health, risk of sexual abuse, trafficking)
  • Income generation disturbed
  • Problems of daily subsistence increased
  • Disintegration of families
  • Agents of trafficking activated
  • of homeless children/orphans increased
  • School Education disturbed and dropouts increased
  • Parents wandering in search of jobs

Implications

  • Disintegration of families
  • Sexual abuses/violence increased
  • Deterioration of physical/mental health
  • School dropout rates specially among girls’ increased
  • Migration of families increased
  • Risk/vulnerability of trafficking increased

Measures to mitigate the problems 

Awareness building and counselling to the community:

  • Counselling to people of various age-groups
  • Establishment of child protection information centres
  • Reporting on girls/child trafficking
  • Mobilization of Women’s Right Forums (MAM), Child clubs,

VCPC

Livelihood promotion and sustaining family income:

  • Identification of potential income generating interventions
  • Preparation of business plans (sustainability plan)
  • Implementation of income generating activities

Outcomes

  • Awareness on Anti-trafficking raised

Sustainable business plan for income generation prepared and confidence level of the community members increased

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