Final Report Street Children!!!!

STREET CHILDREN
Project Name: Fight Against Street Children

Date: 22th of May2005

Venue: Near Nepa Bus Stop

Name of the Interviewer: Sarah Zubair

Name of the Child: Raju

Sex: Male

Occupation: Flower Seller

Daily Income: 50-60

School Going: No

Age: The boy don’t know his age (He was just about 10 years approximate)

Do you want to go to school? No. Because I can’t afford it and I am the only boy of my parents.

If we get you admitted in the school would you go there? No my parents don’t allow me and I have a lot of responsibilities to bear.

Your Dream: To become a Superman

Conclusion: The main problem with the children on street is that they are the only male element in family or simply poverty. By this fact the boys are not make to study and about girls that the concept is still in the mind of male dominating society which is no longer remain in our society.

Why a child comes to a profession of begging?
Why every day a child becomes homeless?
Why every day a child dies because of poverty?
Why every day it increases in the number of street children?
Why the children lying on streets instead of going in the schools?

These are some of questions, which are needed to be considered.

This interview reflects those victims who came in the storm of street children. A child doesn’t means talking about a girl or a boy it means talking about the future of nation, the future of humanity at large.

Date: May 30, 2005

Venue: Karimabad Roundabout.

Name: Amna.

Sex: Female.

Age: 12years

A school going girl? No

Occupation: Begging

Lives in a home: No

Father: A drug addict person.

Mother: Not alive.

How long performing this job: Since childhood with Amman (mother)

Siblings: 4 sisters

Father’s Occupation: -

Any dream or aim: To earn a lot of money.

If you don’t perform this job: My father kills me as he killed my mother.

If you are sent to school, do you go: No.

Conclusion: the main reason of street children is ignorance, is poverty, and is every element that thinks that they aren’t important. This concept is wrong, because every child has a right to get their own identity, get respect, get education, get a time to play and get every single attention as other children are having.

After searching the children on the streets I went to Abdul Sattar Edhi Trust and came up with the final report.

 

Name of the student: Sarah Zubair

 

Project title: Fight against Street Children

 

Social Issue Focused: The main motto of this project is to remove illiteracy from the ignorant children.

 

Target Area/Community: The place where we visited was Abdul Sattar Edhi Trust. It was actually consists orphanage, old house and metal wards. But our main purpose was to remove illiteracy for which we went to orphanage and children corridor. There we survey how the children were before they come to the trust, about their lifestyles and all. Children were dressed, fed and sheltered like normal children. They got big classrooms filled with colourful chart papers and toy stuffs. They have a good air free corridors were they spent their evenings. One bedroom is being shared by four children with separate beds, pillows and blankets. Rooms were not supplied with fans but they were designed so that the fresh air could easily pass.
The maid, peons’ wardens were so caring and loving. They love the children and care for them as their own.
The most beneficial element by our community service project is those children who were lying but they are now living happy and contended life.
In our community project we not only go to the children and provide them goods but we also try to make them happy although for an hour or two.

 

What I have done to do respond to the social issue I have selected. Our project action details: When we visited Abdul Sattar Edhi Trust the children were studying in kind of environment like a class, but from second day we begin teaching them in a friendly kind of environment, like making them alphabets and make a chain of alphabets. Teaching them the Elephant words. In the evening playing them cricket in the ground. The third day I planned to bring any board game for them hence I brought Ludo. I teach them to play it and at the end of the day a boy named Khalid makes me so happy that he caught me cheating and made me to do ten ups and downs. Let me introduce Khalid. He didn’t know anything about his family. His biodata told that he was found lying at Sindh Balochistan way at the age of only 11months and now Khalid is 10years old child. If somebody asks him about his family and home, he tells that the trust is his home and the people there are his family. The third day in the trust was very hot. I had brought cold drinks and snacks for the evening but the children make it a share for the daytime. That day we had decided to play with numbers. I had made the number chain and connect he children with each other. But some the children got bored and they want do something new. I had also brought the inkpads. Fro them we made snakes and other cartoons by our thumbprints. The day ends with this task but for the next day I promised them for the tournament for a cricket match. For the remaining two days we studied Quran and Islamiat. I had brought the books for them, which enhance their learning skills.

 

What was the outcome or end result of the project: Besides getting fame or being popular amongst the friends or community I felt contend and satisfied by seeing the children happy in their present. In the hours I spent with them they forgot their sad past memories in their true and happy today. The happiness I felt can’t be bought by cents or money. The smiles on their faces were the fruitful result of my efforts of working with them in a week. Most of the children there were brought to the trust at very early age and they even don’t know about their family or community but even then they have the hope to become something to make their family happy. Besides children learn many things in that environment. They share their feelings. Their lifestyles. Their sorrows and those things that make their hearts cry. Some of the children were found at the age of 8 or 10 and they know their families. They ran off from there because of their family stress. They cry and share their past with me how they were treated in their family. Few of the stories are as under:

Name: Aslam Allahrakha
Story: “When I was born me mother was dead. My maternal grandmother brought me up. She makes me study. She was a maid in one house. When I grow to 10 my father came and said to me granny that he wanted me to work with him and wanted to earn for him, as he was old. Me granny forbid him but he pushed my granny back and took me with him. One night I stayed with him. The other I ran off from his home to my granny. I saw her dead. I was very afraid that if I return to home my father kills me. That night a noble man found me on the street. He submitted me to the trust. Here I felt happy with out any pain.”

Name: Akram
Story: “I don’t know anything about my family. I know by grandmother in the same trust in the orphanage. She had told me that my father was a wicked man and he thrown my grandmother and me in this trust. I went to meet my grandmother twice in a week. She is very old and ill.”

Name: Shehzad
Story: “I was 6 years old when I came here with my uncle and aunty to give funds to the trust. My uncle asked me to visit the trust till they give the fund. I get in the trust. After 2-3 hours I came back I saw my uncle and aunty had ran. I asked the people around there they told me that nobody had submitted any trust in the evening. From that day I became the member of this trust.”
                 These were the painful stories of the only few children but there are many mouths and hearts waiting for someone to listen their stories. I had planned to visit this trust once or twice (if possible) in a week.

 

What were the learning experiences for me? I had learnt from the children how to survive in this difficult routine. We cries if or parents are not with us for one or two days, but how those children had passed number of years without their family or parents. They had taught me different techniques of becoming a good teacher. Above all I had experienced a true happiness that can’t be felt getting number of money. I got the spirit of community service and respect for the people who are single.

Sarah Zubair
Sultan Mohamed Shah Aga Khan School
Karimabad, Karachi.
YES-Scholar 2005-2006