Intervention in Kishalaya Home
Since April 2015 to September 2015, Kishalaya Correctional Home, Barasat, focused on two fold activities i.e-
- Non-Formal Education: Mainstreaming and Life skill education
- Livelihood,
for the betterment of the inmates (young boys).
The Outcome:
1) Non-Formal Education
Being the social wing of Arch Diocese of Calcutta, one of our main focus is "Education" and we want to ensure that every juveniles comes under this programme where the children are given the basic primary education with an aim to make them eligible for taking admission in primary schools.
Hence, the children were introduced to the concepts of cleanliness and good practices; introduction to alphabets, sounds and writing; introduction to numbers and counting; and drawing.
2) Livelihood
Initiated in July, it was a new initiative in the Indian context that the juveniles are producing a part of their daily food in the home campus.
Under this programme, the juveniles were taught how to produce vegetables. Vegetables like - brinjal, green chilies, kalmi saag, indian spinach, okra, etc were grown in the home campus which are then used to prepare the food for the inmates.
Also, they were taught seed collection preservation, bio-composting, developing water conservation models, etc.
The targets were successfully achieved with the help of the collaborating NGOs like Seva Kendra Calcutta (SKC), Swanirvar and others.
Since April 2015 to September 2015, Kishalaya Correctional Home, Barasat, focused on two fold activities i.e-
- Non-Formal Education: Mainstreaming and Life skill education
- Livelihood,
for the betterment of the inmates (young boys).
The Outcome:
1) Non-Formal Education
Being the social wing of Arch Diocese of Calcutta, one of our main focus is "Education" and we want to ensure that every juveniles comes under this programme where the children are given the basic primary education with an aim to make them eligible for taking admission in primary schools.
Hence, the children were introduced to the concepts of cleanliness and good practices; introduction to alphabets, sounds and writing; introduction to numbers and counting; and drawing.
2) Livelihood
Initiated in July, it was a new initiative in the Indian context that the juveniles are producing a part of their daily food in the home campus.
Under this programme, the juveniles were taught how to produce vegetables. Vegetables like - brinjal, green chilies, kalmi saag, indian spinach, okra, etc were grown in the home campus which are then used to prepare the food for the inmates.
Also, they were taught seed collection preservation, bio-composting, developing water conservation models, etc.
The targets were successfully achieved with the help of the collaborating NGOs like Seva Kendra Calcutta (SKC), Swanirvar and others.
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| Land inside the campus being prepared for planting seeds. |
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| Inmates growing vegetables |
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| Non formal education |
