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ANALYSIS OF PROBLEMS
The children living in slums with their parents face a number of problems. These problems are radically different from the problems being faced by children of well to do families in India. To enumerate a few:
1. Poor quality of teaching in schools: Government schools are not up to mark. Therefore many private schools have come up to lure these families for education. Although they themselves exploit the situation. Most of the private schools in the poor sections are housed in one/two rooms and are unable to keep basic minimum education standards. They hardly have any infrastructure.
2. Child Labour: Although child labour is banned & declared illegal yet it still continues in the society. The parents of the slum dwellers force their children for work and thus earn money for the family .Therefore the children do not attend their school on a regular basis. Similarly a very large number of children are unable to go to any school and are deprived of getting a chance to become a good citizen.
3. Long working hours of parents: A survey of the slums shows that both the parents are working in every family, males work as skilled or semi-skilled labour and the females work as domestic help with long working hours. In many cases, it is children of the family who are thus forced to cook food for the family in the absence of their mother. This untimely responsibility further deprives them of their childhood.
4. No access of after school education to compliment the school education: A child needs some assistance in studies at home because in school it is not possible for a teacher to address individual problems. However there is no one to help them at their home. Their parents are illiterate and their other siblings are not good at studies..
5. No opportunity for education for drop out school children : The children who are school drop outs should also get a chance to get education, because they can learn easily with their peers in groups. However the biggest problem in this case will be to persuade them to join a lower class than the one they have already studied. For this, they need to be taught on a regular basis for months to make them at par.
6. Lack of sensitivity to the emotional needs of these children: Before teaching the children, we win their confidence by showing empathy to their problems and teach them with love, encouragement and understanding.
7. Lack of awareness about the needs of these children among donors: Most of the donors prefer orphanages for donation but the plight of underprivileged children are not different, they too need proper nourishments, education and clothes but they are not lucky enough to get it and have to suffer through their life. We are trying to develop an alternate platform where they may get their due share from society in the form of small donations for fulfillment of their small needs.
We have taken a lot from the Society, but now its time to return back something to the Society