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| Stakeholders or Caring Community |
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The philosophy of stakeholders is to promote and support to address the causes of runaway children, to reduce social disorder, through community partnerships. The philosophy also rests on the belief that all in the community have the responsibility to participate in creating child friendly Society.
Reaching-out and offer children at risk support services for their integral development with the help of the stakeholders in favour of children at risk. This concept is embracing many of our current and future Challenges and it should be the concept of Social Responsibility. This is one of the key concepts to bridge that enables Organizations and the care takers to communicate, collaborate, and thus work together and build safer, more caring space for children at family, school and social levels.
The caring community includes Auto and Taxi Drives, Food and Flower vendors, Police Personnel (RPF/GRP), Shop keepers, Porters, Sweepers, Railway staff, Women Self Help Groups, School teachers, Networking NGOs and Children’s clubs.
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| Seminars |
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Regularly seminars are conducted to disseminate the information to initiate and to maintain certain level of public awareness regarding the problems of runaway children. NANBAN involves press media to increase awareness among the community on the major crisis of runaway children. In addition like minded NGOs, schools, stakeholders, students and social activists are also involved in the seminar. The growing number of runaway adolescents (especially girls who are more vulnerable to sexual abuse than boys) has urged the authorities to look for a systematic approach to a possible solution. However, dealing with the out-of-school children seems to be much more demanding than those in schools. Lack of reliable statistics on the real number of these children makes the issue even more complicated. Runaway girls are the most at risk.
The growing number of runaway and street children is alarming! Poverty, dysfunctional and disintegrated families of the runaway children, failure of the families and the government to establish financial and emotional support for the youth, loose ties of the new generation with the national, social and religious values, unreasonable social restrictions, high rate of demand and supply for drugs, inappropriate legislation and lack of a definite law in support of children’s rights, are responsible for the facts.
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