THESIS INTERNAL REVIEW STAGE – 1

 
REHABILITATION CENTRE FOR
STREET CHILDREN
   

K. AJITH REDDY  
16041AA058
 QUESTIONARE

• What are the characteristics of the street children living

there?
• What are the activities of the rehabilitation centre?
• What is the perception of street children towards the centre?
• Total area
• Areas of individual space
• Hostel
• Mess
• Hospital
• Vocational training centre
• Stay for staff

• Materials used
• Interior
• Exterior
• Services
• Climatology
• Topography
• Accessibility
• Population based in different age groups
• What attracts children to stay there?
• What do they do after going out from centre?
• Does government help them in funding?
• Where does their funding come from?
• If their will be any income to the centre?
• Age & behaviour of drug addicts?
• Percentage of participation & drop outs
• Reason for joining street life
• Type of children admitted
• Whether children were happy at the centre or not?
• What are the challenges & achievements of the centre?
• What are the challenges faced by the children while joining
the rehabilitation centre?
• What are the available resources in the centre?
• What are the problems do they face in streets?
• What do they expect to get at the rehabilitation centre?
• Type of staff working there?
• Type of education children get there?
• Is there any repatriation?
• Type of course provided for de-addiction of drug?
 CASE STUDY - 1

DON BOSCO
NAVJEEVAN BALA
BHAVAN
 DON BOSCO NAVAJEEVAN REHABILITATION CENTRE :

LOCATION : Ramanthapur
AREA : 2.96acres
SITE AREA : 12140.56sqm
ARCHITECT : Ar. Balakrishna Murali
STUDENTS : 65 students
CENTRE STAFF : 25
STAFF : 21
Brief History:
• The story of Don Bosco Nava Jeevan Bala Bhavan, Secunderabad, began very
early after the second provincial chapter of the St. Joseph’s province of
Hyderabad in 1996, brought forth deliberations to launch new ventures for the
welfare of street children in the cities Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam.
• This good aspiration of the Salesians was further strengthened by the excellent
work being done for street children in Vijayawada by the Salesians of Don Bosco.
• In April 1998, the Salesian Provincial Council took the sagacious decision of first
starting a project for street children in Hyderabad; it being the capital city of
Andhra Pradesh, and only later Visakhapatnam. They appointed Fr. Maddichetty
Noel to spearhead this mission. He was sent to BIRDY (Bosco Institute of
Research and Development for Youth) to begin the work while also animating
some of their programs. Thus began Don Bosco Nava Jeevan Bala Bhavan, a
“project for children and youth at risk”.
• It was a very uphill task to find suitable premises to establish Don Bosco Nava
Jeevan, Secunderabad. After months of searching, a three storied building was
rented and by June 15th, 1999 the boys moved in to their new home and work
began in a more systematic manner.
• We have inaugurated our own infrastructure near to Secunderabad Railway
Station (Bhoiguda) on 24th April 2001 by then Home Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
We found the necessity of having shelters near to the Hyderabad Railway Station.
• We have started a shelter near to Hyderabad Railway Station (Nampally) in 2004
and was officially inaugurated on 19th March, 2006 by then Honorable Speaker
Mr. K. Suresh Reddy. These two shelters would be our contact centers and the
round the clock shelters for boys.
• We have started a home Girls as per the need in August 2015 in Hayathnagar
called Don Bosco Prem Seva Sadan.

Main Objectives:
Nava Jeevan's objective is to reach out to every child on the street with love
and trust while creating an environment/habitat where the child is empowered to
stand up for his rights and to face life in a positive manner. This then means:

 Acceptance of the child unconditionally for what he/she is.

 Collaboration with the child in his/her own initiatives to overcome
deprivations.
 Educate the child to stand for his rights.
 Train the children in skill trades to earn hood his lively.
 Counseling the child to make positive and correct choice.
 Motivating the child to go back home if there is a “Home” for him to go to.
 Making every effort to rehabilitate the child.
Promoting networking with people of all walks of life and creating social supports that
contributes towards the dignity of the child.

The adult will then be able to interact with the child in such a manner that both grow in the
process of this interaction.
 
The Secunderabad Don Bosco Navajeevan Society Centres:
1.   Shelter 1: 1998
Don Bosco Navajeevan Bala Bhavan
New Bhoiguda, Secunderabad
• Services offered:
• Shelter,
• Counseling,
• Home placement,
• Food,
• Clothing,
• Medication,
• Re-orientation &
• Formal School.
 
2.   Shelter 2: 2004
Don Bosco Nava Jeevan Bala Bhavan  
     Bazar Ghats, Nampally
• Services offered:
• Shelter,
• Counseling,
• Home placement,
• Food,
• Clothing,
• Medication &
• Formal School.
 
 
 3.  Rehabilitation Centre: 2002
Don Bosco Nava Jeevan Rehabilitation Centre
Pagati Nagar, Ramanthapur
• Services offered:
• Shelter,
• Counseling,
• Food,
• Clothing,
• Medication,
• Non-Formal Education &
• Recreation.

•  Courses offered at Don Bosco Nava Jeevan Non-Formal Technical School.

• Carpentry
• Welding
• Motor Mechanic & Driving
• Bakery
• Air Conditioning & Refrigeration
• Tailoring & Embroidery
• Electrician
• Plumbing
• Printing & Book Binding
 
4. Shelter 4 :
Mamma Margaret Home of School Going Children
Pragatinagar, Ramanthapur
• Services offered:
• Shelter,
• Counseling,
• Food,
• Clothing,
• Medication &
• Formal Education
 5. Career Guidance & Job Placement Centre: 2003
Don Bosco Nava Jeevan Yuvaniketan
New Bhoiguda, Secunderabad
• Services offered:
• Shelter,
• Counseling,
• Guidance,
• Food,
• Clothing,
• Medication,
• Upgrading skills &
• Job placement.
 

 
Activities of “The Secunderabad Don Bosco Navajeevan
Society” in Previous Years:
 
1. STREET PRESENCE:
• The strategy, as evolved from Navajeevan’s experience at Vijayawada, is to
contact first the children and gain their confidence and trust. As stated above,
this is already in the process.
• A Street Presence Team, constituted of six street educators, is already set up.
The twelve members of the team have been contacting street children and
building up good rapport with them since these eleven years.
• During this period, they could contact more than 25000 children in and around
Secunderabad, Hyderabad and Kachiguda Railway Stations that have got the
highest level of concentration of street children. The team is so enthusiastic
about it’s work that it could place back home more than 6500 children after
due counselling just on the street itself. Also, the team could arrange better
job placements for more than 240 boys.
• They are being closely followed up and counselled. These boys are also
encouraged to start savings. During the last two years, apart from
developmental measures, Navajeevan moved more effectively in the area of
Advocacy. But this is only the beginning of a long, arduous road as the
children are lured by brokers to hazardous jobs on the basis of false promises
of attractive wages.
• In reality, as noted above, they have to work 12 to 16 hours a day; sometimes,
many of them are not paid at all, and in many cases, they are severely beaten
up just because they dared to ask for their promised wages; and kept under
cruel custody for petty charges like breaking the crockery or things of that sort.

• The team follows a systematic approach in contacting children in different

areas. As a preliminary step in working efficaciously with child labour, a survey
on Child Labourers was conducted by the street presence team in the areas
surrounding Regimental Bazaar and Secunderabad railway station.
• Many child labourers were contacted in hotels, workshops, mechanic sheds
etc. but majority of them were too scared of their employers to talk to the
surveyors. Only 221 volunteered detailed information about themselves.
However the exercise was enough to convince us about the dire need for
action in this field. Don Bosco Navajeevan hopes to cover extensive ground in
this area in the near future.
 
2. ROUND THE CLOCK SHELTER

• Next step in the Navajeevan experience of street children project at

Hyderabad is to have a round the clock Shelter where the children can come
and go freely without the fear of bullies, hostile police men or other threats.
This has also been materialized.
• A round the clock shelter has been set up in a rented building located very
close to the Secunderabad Railway Station. Proximity to the railway station
has the advantage that the children have an easy access to the shelter. Easy
physical accessibility to the shelter is one of the promoting factors for the
children to walk in away from the usual temptations of the street.
• At the shelter, the children's basic needs are taken care of. They are given
food, medical care, clothes and recreation facilities. The children are
introduced to the three R’s at the shelter level itself through the Literacy
Programme where the children spend at least one to two hours in learning.
At one time, the shelter programme has to take care of more than 100
children at present.

3. COUNSELLING--HEALING OF EMOTIONAL DEPRIVATIONS

• A street child can somehow manage food and his other physical needs. What
he is deeply in need of is a SIGNIFICANT ADULT who loves and trusts him,
with whom he can converse. A vast majority of these children take to the
street because of the emotional deprivations and insecurity that they suffer
at home at the hands of their very parents and close relatives. A street
educator must primarily be able to fill this gap.
• What a street educator starts during his contacts with the child on the street--
the healing of these emotional deprivations, building up of rapport and the
creating of a family atmosphere--is taken forward by the COUNSELLING
department located at the shelter. Presently two lady counselors run it. They
listen to the problems of the children with their motherly touch and affection.
• Many a time, the counselors contact their parents and prepare them too to
accept the children back. There are instances when the counselor or street
educator accompanied the children back home.

 
4. LITERACY AND NON-FORMAL SKILL TRAINING PROGRAMME
• Counselors help the child to understand his own life, help him gradually to
overcome his fears and to take the decision to turn away from street addiction
or the freedom of the street to the path of self discipline: either by preparing
him to go back “home” if there is a home for him to go to or by helping him to
take a decision to join formal education (schooling) or non-formal vocational
training to acquire any of the skills to enable him to stand on his own feet.
• At present, Navajeevan at Hyderabad has no systematic rehabilitation facilities
of its own. Hence, it sends those children who are willing to do schooling or
skills training (carpentry, tailoring, television & radio, air-conditioning and
refrigeration mechanic, electrician and plumbing) to our Non-formal Technical
School at Ramanthapur.
• Don Bosco Navajeevan was lucky to find a good school willing to admit our
kids in the middle of the academic year. It is a school working on an
alternative approach to education and it provides special attention for
disadvantaged children.
5. RE-ORIENTATION CAMPS
• The experience that Navajeevan has gained through the number of short-term
camps that have been conducted for children, straight out of the street, has
more than proved the point that short-term, intensive and activity packed
camps help these children away from the 'freedom' of the street to take the
path of rehabilitation.
• In other words, between the street and rehabilitation, there must be a phase
which will help to Re-Motivate effectively the children to give up the
"freedom" of the street or 'street addiction' and to accept the discipline of
rehabilitation either in their own homes--if there is a "home" for the street
child to go to--or in various rehabilitation programmes. Hence, an
intermediary training space and infrastructure is crucial for street children
intervention.
 NETWORKING WITH OTHER NGOS:

 AP - CRAF: Navajeevan is an active member of the Andhra Pradesh

Child Rights Advocacy Forum which provides a unifying force or common
platform among the NGOs and individuals working for the active
implementation of the UN Convention on Child Rights, ratified by world's
189 countries, including India. At present, the Forum has got 290 NGOs as
its members in 18 districts of Andhra Pradesh.

 Don Bosco Navajeevan also works with local NGOs in

ensuring protection for every child that seeks shelter in this city; in
encouraging and supporting ventures that promote the interests of
children in insecure situations; in educating every adult citizen, and
especially those holding official responsibilities, in their duties towards
children; in ensuring that the government observation home for boys
becomes a place where the child is provided opportunities for “all round
growth and development of his personality”; and also in ensuring that the
neglected children are not ‘confined’ in observation homes along with the
delinquents.
 Characteristics of students are of three types. They are:
 Students – of age 7-18
 Working boys – Street kids – 18+
 Shelter boys – Field staff – 20

 Activities of the Rehabilitation centre :

 Education
 Social service
 Vocational training centre
 Bakery
 Welding
 Carpentry
 Electricals
 Tailoring
 Printing
 Computers

 Strength based on different age groups :

 Nampally – ( 7-13 yrs) – 47 students
 Ramanthapur – ( 14-18 yrs) – 65 students
 Bhoiguda – (15-22 yrs) – 35 students
 Hayathnagar girls – (7-20 yrs) – 73 students

 People who are interested to study, who are interested

in changing their lives in a positive way only join the
centre .
 From vocational training they get their jobs in few
industries , depending on their vocational training in
which they excel.
 Local donors, NRI’s and other companies give help the
centre in funding.
 Basically the age of street children who are drug
addicts will be in between 15-20 .
• DON BOSCO RAMANTHAPUR CONSISTS OF

• Administrative block – 328.97sqm

• School block – 600.3sqm

• Play area for kids

• Basket ball court

• Mess block - 332.97sqm

• Volley ball court

• Hospitality block – 257.55sqm

• Residential block

• Dormitory block – 500.7sqm

• Assembly block

• Football court

• Technical school – 514.4sqm

• Playing area

• Cemetary

• Play ground

• Printing press block – 456sqm

• Primary children block – 379.2sqm

• Watchman block – 138sqm

• Outdoor games – 3946sqm

• Total open spaces – 4741.59sqm

• AREA OF INDIVIDUAL BLOCK
• TECHNICAL SCHOOL BLOCK

GROUND FLOOR FIRST FLOOR SECOND FLOOR

Waiting area – 20sqm Library – 22sqm T-shirt printing – 180sqm

Office room – 18sqm Class rooms (2) – 75sqm Stores for shirts – 58sqm

TV room – 65sqm Electronic room – 54sqm

Staff room – 15sqm Music hall – 16sqm

Tailoring room (2) -112sqm

Workshop – 610sqm

Toilets (5) – 1.22sqm each

 • DORMITORY & DINING BLOCK
TYPICAL GROUND + 2 FLOORS

Lobby – 16sqm Dormitories (12) – 37.5sqm each

Wash area – 15sqm Care taker’s room – 30sqm

Toilets (7) – 1.1sqm each Dining – 192sqm

Kitchen – 76.5sqm Store – 55sqm

Staff dining – 20sqm

Dining hall for staff

It has 2 entries one from kitchen for easy food serving and other from
outside.
For COLLEGE STUDENTS the capacity of single bed is 8 in each room.
Each floor has 2 dormitories
 • ADMINISTRATIVE & FATHER’S BLOCK
GROUND FLOOR TYPICAL 1ST & 2ND FLOOR

Lobby – 12sqm Provincial room – 34sqm

Office room (3) – 9sqm Admin – 38.4sqm

Father’s room – 32sqm Guest room (5) – 35sqm

Prayer hall – 26sqm

Dining room – 20sqm

Kitchen – 7.5sqm

PRAYER HALL in ground floor with 20no’s seating.

DINING HALL for fathers with 10no’s seating capacity.
First floor has administrative office guest room.
Second floor which is covered with iron grills at the top.
Bridge connected from father’s block to hospitality block from second
floor.
• HOSPITALITY BLOCK

GROUND FLOOR FIRST FLOOR SECOND FLOOR

Reception – 8sqm Multipurpose room – Guest room(15) –

98sqm 32sqm
Counselling – 48sqm

Conference block – 37.3sqm

Toilets (4) – 1.33sqm each

HOSPITALITY BLOCK is beside father’s block and the other side it has
a volley ball court.
After the child is entered into the don bosco there are given
counselling in this block.
The block has guest rooms of 2 beded & 3 beded wit attach toilet.
Seating is provided infront of multipurpose room.
• PRINTING PRESS BLOCK
GROUND FLOOR FIRST FLOOR

Waiting hall – 9sqm Multipurpose hall – 180sqm

Office room – 34sqm Computer lab – 50sqm

DTP computer – 20sqm

Printing press – 392sqm

PRINTING PRESS HALL which has double height.

They will print the broachers, t-shirts, cards etc.
• OUTDOOR GAMES
GAMES AREA

Basket ball court 418sqm

Volley ball court 166.25sqm

Foot ball court 3360sqm

Assembly area 534.4sqm

Kids play area 138sqm

• LANDSCAPE

• HARD LANDSCAPE
• At the entrance gate surrounded with plants.
• Bushes with few statues can be seen while
entering into the site at the right side.
• SOFT LANDSCAPE
• This type of landscape is present in front of
father’s block.

• ELEMENTS
• TYPE OF STAIRCASE : Dog legged stairs.
• Well ventilated from windows.
• Different types of doors used for every block.
• Transformer at west side of the site.

• FLOORING & SEATING :

• STONE ROUGH TILES are used for pavements.
• Steps made of rocks are in front of press block.
• Seating provided in front of every office room and
outdoor play area.
 CASE STUDY – 2

SOCIETY UNDERTAKING POOR

PEOPLE’S ONUS for REHABILITATION
(SUPPORT)
STREET CHILDREN REHABILITATION CENTRE:
LOCATION : Manthan plaza, Vakola Market Road,
Mumbai.
AREA : 1,675.22sqm
STRENGTH : 93 Boys
62 Girls
90 Youth
 SERVICES:

DE-ADDICTION
-Awareness/Detoxification Through Medical
Treatment.
-Reduce The Stress And Anxiety Caused By Street
Life.
-Improve Physical And Mental Condition Through
- Nutrition, Hygiene And Awareness Programs.

EDUCATION
-Enrolment Of Children Into Regular Schools.
-Vocational Training For Productive Jobs In
Society.

REPATRIATION
-Unite Runaway Street Children With Their
Families, Where Possible.
-Job Placement, After Successful Completion Of
Education / Vocational Training.

LIFE SKILLS IMPARTATION

SOCIAL MAIN STREAMING
VOCATIONAL SKILLS TRAINING
SUPPORT’s SEVEN INITIATIVES:

DAY CARE CENTER – Located in Mumbai, near the CST

railway station, it is a focussed entry-point activity centre
for guiding and enabling the substance-abusing street
children and youth to take the essential decisions of
quitting drugs and street life and choosing a respectable
future in the mainstream society. Every little step taken
towards the centre is a giant step towards transformation
and a brighter tomorrow.

DETOXIFICATION – It is a 21 days long process

involving medical and social intervention, to detoxify and
cleanse the system from the abused substances, which
have accumulated in the body over time. Thereafter the
children/youth are enrolled into long term residential
rehabilitation process.

RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION PROGRAM FOR BOYS &

GIRLS – The long-term residential rehabilitation program
for children focuses on behaviour transformation through
the practise of drug-free life, changing of the incorrect
attitudes and habits, formal education and teaching life-
skills to help them gradually merge into the mainstream
society.

RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM FOR THE YOUTH – The

residential vocational skills training program is for the
youth aged 18 – 25 years. Basic vocational skills and life-
skills are imparted to equip them for gainful employment
and financial sustainability. On completing the program,
they are encouraged to start life anew independently with
a newly acquired job or are reunited with family.
 SAPHALE PROJECT – SUPPORT has expanded its work
base by building a residential centre at saphale in
Maharashtra. SUPPORT’s dream is to take more youth off the
street and provide them opportunities to lead a healthy and
dignified life.

MEDICAL PROGRAM – The medical program is integral to

SUPPORT’s overall intervention program of transforming lives.
In addition to detoxification, the medical team addresses
chronic illnesses and ensures that every child/youth in
rehabilitation leads a healthy life.

PREVENTION AWARENESS PROGRAM – SUPPORT also

has an awareness and prevention program for children and
youth in schools and colleges to create awareness about the
different kinds of drugs and to sensitize the new generation
about the ill effects of drug abuse.
- SUPPORT works on drug addicts.
- It works on 7-18 years of street children.
- Skill education program for 18-23 years.
- Skills like welding, carpentry.
- Formal education upto 16 years.
- Day care centre near CST.
- There will be a team to track street children whoever on
streets and join them in the centre.
- SUPPORT provides all the basic needs for the children.
- If they want to change they should follow few rules of de-
addiction.
- If any child do malpractices they will be handover to child
welfare committee.
- There will be a 21 days detoxification program.
- There will be a 6 months rehabilitation and transformation
program.
- There will be a repatriation program to reunite their parents.
- Job placement will be done according to the skill.
- Government help in funding the centre.
- They also have local donors.
- CSR funding ( Co-operating social response ).
 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CASE STUDIES
• The various spaces in the rehabilitation centre are
categorized into the following:
• Administrative block
• Dormitory block
• Dining block
• Hospitality block
• Vocational training block
• Outdoor play area
• Recreational spaces

SPACES DBNJ SUPPORT

Administrative It has prayer hall, dining Its just a space with 2

block hall and also guest rooms of 12 capacity
rooms for the where the admin staff
volunteers. will be.

Dormitory block It has separate space for It is a common space

washing, storage and where all the students
sleeping for the eat, sleep and study.
children.

Dining block There is separate hall There is no dining hall, it

for staff and children is combined with
with 2 entries and good dormitory block like a
ventilation common space.

Hospitality block It is for the guests who It is a common space

came there and also a mixed with medical
counselling space for centre.
children when they are
admitted.
SPACES DBNJ SUPPORT

Vocational It is large block where It only gives training in

training block almost very training few aspects but not
would be given to satisfies all of them.
children to be
independent.

Outdoor play area It has each and every It does not have any
outdoor play area with ground or area for
courts and has a huge playing purpose
space for watching

Recreational There are printing There are no such

spaces press, exhibit space, spaces in here.
assembly point where
everyone gathers and
have a peaceful time.

Medical support It has a block where all There is a small room

the drug addicts get where all the
rehabilitated. detoxification process
and rehabilitation goes
on
SITE SELECTION
&
JUSTIFICATION
 SITE – 1:

LOCATION : Sitarambagh
AREA : 3.23acres
 SITE – 2:

LOCATION : Chilkalguda
AREA : 2.94acres
 SITE JUSTIFICATION :

 I have selected the both sides by considering the

surrounding location of it.
 One of the site is located near to the Secunderabad
railway station
 And other site is located near to the Nampally railway
station.
 Street life is more in these two areas in the city.
 Street children show interest to stay in public places like
railway stations, parks etc rather than their house on
streets.
 Their only thought is that they feel safe when they are in
crowded places, as no one does anything to them in
public.
 I have choosen these sites because in both the cases I
can find street children who want change themselves in a
better way.
 But due to bad company and surroundings they couldn’t
able to do anything.