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This project aims to improve the living conditions of migrant children in India and give them access to their fundamental rights.
Every season in India, many families are forced to migrate in search of a better life.
work to support themselves. 15 million migrant children accompany their families to work.
parents and live in deplorable conditions directly on the construction sites and
the brickworks where their parents worked.
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Project objectives
Enabling migrant children to access their fundamental rights, in particular to schooling, to grow up in good health and to be protected against all forms of violence during the migration phase. It also involved raising the awareness of site owners and the authorities to ensure that migrants and their children have access to basic services and a quality environment, and finally to carry out advocacy work on migrants' rights.
Our actions
- Set up 15 childcare centres for children aged 0 to 4 in brick factories. Each centre is run by a trained educator, who is monitored and supervised.
- Adapting project activities in the middle of a pandemic (March 2020-September 2021) with emergency aid
- Ensuring that children and their families have access to state services, particularly in terms of access to schools and health services.
- Referring and encouraging pregnant and breastfeeding women to local medical services and ensuring that the latter are available to receive migrant women.
- Ensure that children are reintegrated into their schools when their families return home
- Transferring the management of 9 childcare centres for children aged 0 to 4 to brickworks owners
Key figures
children
breastfeeding mothers
teenagers
Our partners
City of Geneva - Fondation Gebauer - Fondation Rosyland
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