27th August, 2016- Swanirvar
In 2013, Officer
in Charge, Baduria Police Station invited Swanirvar in a Police-Civilian
meeting at Police station. In that meeting OC, Baduria expressed his concern
for the migrated children working in the brick kilns. He also added that there
are few dalit and underprivileged children who lived with their parents in the
slums adjacent to Police station and Baduria Municipality. He concluded that he
made request to local businessmen and they promised but failed keep their
promise.
In
October, 2013 Swanirvar did extensive survey and identified the dropouts. We
proposed the police officials to start a child care centre in Police station
campus to mainstream the dropouts. We submitted the written proposal to the
Superintendent of Police, North 24 Parganas and got immediate approval.
The
child care centre, ‘PRAYASH’ started its journey from January, 2014 (http://swainedu.blogspot.in/2014/01/prayash-child-care-centre-at-baduria.html)
In
2014 and 2015 academic session more than 50 children mainstreamed to Govt
Schools and continuing their studies.
In
this child care centre, we not only ensure their age appropriate subjective
learnings but also give lot of emphasis on learning - local histories &
geography, art & craft activity, music and action rhymes etc. The
mainstreamed children are very popular in the Govt Schools for their extra
curricular activities.
Recently,
we met Mr. Dilip Mondal, Secretary of Dhumketu Puppet Theatre. They do hands on
training with the children on developing puppets and teach them on traditional
puppet play and also do some therapy-based works the children in crisis. They
are expert in doing this with the juvenile delinquents and also doing the same
with children suffering from cancer. Recently a film was made on their good
works. They have selected PRAYASH Centre for intervention with Swanirvar.
1st
workshop was held on 27th August, 2016 with 25 children from PRAYASH and few
more children from nearby places joined with them. They made paper puppet and
at the end they learned the art of puppet play. Few of them were so innovative
that they performed with their paper puppets at the end of the workshop. Next
workshop will be held on 10th September, 2016. 
