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| Background |
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| As the Founder and Director of Nanban, Bro. S. James had taken for his thesis the problem of street children, when he was in the first year of Master of Social Work Studies. For the thesis, he along with his friends went into the streets and worked with the street children who were involved in various odd jobs. Many of them had run away from home due to various reasons from the sub-urban areas, various villages and other cities also. They were working in shops, hotels, restaurants, pavements and having no place to stay, they were roaming the streets and sleeping there. |
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| Nanban, in its role of working for the betterment of the street and working children initially created a transit centre for boys. A separate centre for the girl children was created in 1991. |
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| Vision |
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| Facilitate and enable appropriate women and children-centric structures among the most vulnerable communities, fostering community-level responsibility, to ensure the rights of women and children.
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| Mission |
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| A holistic approach towards realization of the merits of our vision, through legitimate social intervention programmes. |
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| Objectives |
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- To facilitate freedom of expression and active participation for women and children through peer-group forums
- To provide values-based orientation and training for women, youths and children.
- To enhance the socio-economic conditions of the target communities.
- To enhance Nanban’s Human Resources.
- To establish and strengthen linkages with mainstream institutions for deriving sustainable solutions.
- To document the process experience and methodology for wider sharing.
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| Principles |
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| Nanban functions on the conviction that each child should be accepted unconditionally as a whole person and is entitled to active listening. In addition to receiving love, care, food and other experiences such as play, learning, rights for participation etc., growing up children in their formative years need to acquire capacities in themselves to discover a meaning in their life, to learn skills with the feeling of having some control over what happens in life that are related to spiritual life, ethnic culture and religion and assimilate a good measure of self-esteem and sense of humour, all in the contexts of the communities they live in. These have references to some of Nanban's RESILIENCE fostering programmes as applied by us to the community children, youth, women and men, individually or in groups. |
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