Model Developed by Loreto Day School Sealdah for working with Child Domestic Workers supported by Save The Children

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME  Reach out to a minimum of 500 child domestic workers educate, build skills and provide quality support to them.  Link 300 children less than 14 years into formal schools as per the RTE Act.  Build capacities of 200 children of age group – years into vocational training courses for alternative livelihood who are not able to join school.  Provide immediate rescue and repatriation to abused/ traumatized children in collaboration with the CWC and other judiciary bodies, child line and police department.  Maintain proper MIS, Child Tracking for monitoring the progress of the project on monthly basis

Major Findings Majority are females Mainly between the age group years Drop outs of classes I- VI Come from large families, illiterate parents, poor, landless. The fathers do not have a steady source of income Some families have several children below the age of 18 years who are employed as child domestic workers

STRATEGIES OF INTERVENTION Survey and peer education School students between the age group of years conducted a second survey. Areas CoveredCentral Kolkata and North Kolkata Total Wards Covered 10 Child Domestic Workers identified 911 Child Domestic Workers reached out to

Formation of Peer clubs in schools who befriended and developed recreational group work programmes with the child domestic workers. Informal sensitization of employers Subsequent integration into the Drop in centres. (They are contact points for counseling medical support, recreational activities and education to be mainstreamed) Once children were identified -

Schools Involvement Total Schools involved112 Drop in centers opened in schools10

“ALMOST EVERY CHILD DOMESTIC WORKER HAS UNDERGONE SOME FORM OF TRAUMA SUCH AS NEGLECT, CRUELTY AND ILL TREATMENT IN VARYING DEGREES” Sarita Kumari