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Indian Women and Child Welfare Trust's Education program works with Labouring, Street, Orphaned, Disabled, Poor and Marginalized children(aged 6-17) in slums of Delhi, to transition them into mainstream education, by providing basic education and where appropriate, vocational training. The program also aims at creating spaces for learning for children who live on slums/construction sites with their parents who are migrants. The children we work otherwise have no alternatives for education, or childhood. Most of them toil every day, sometimes in horrific conditions to make ends meet. Indian Women and Child Welfare Trust creates an important 'space' for these children within their working day, to be children, and to feel supported, until they enter formal education. The India Women and Child Welfare Trust program is a holistic one, addressing factors creating, or sustaining the circumstances these children find themselves in. In particular by, working with parents so that they understand the importance of and encourage their child in education; supporting parents to develop (additional) income generating activities, or to enter the job market, by imparting skills and working with potential employers to hire them - where fitting through livelihood programs. Due to lack of funding we have been unable to provide the nutrition support element of Indian Women and Child Welfare Trust, for a healthy diet and to help ease the day-to-day burden of these children to earn.
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