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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I take this opportunity to express my profound p rofound gratitude and deep regards to my HOD Maj. Gen NILENDRA KUMAR for his exemplary guidance, monitoring and constant encouragement throughout the course of this thesis. I also take this opportunity to express a deep sense of gratitude to my professor Sir Ashwini Pant Pant , for his cordial support, valuable information and guidance, which helped me in completing this task through various stages.
Lastly, I thank almighty, my parents, friends and all those who have helped me for their constant encouragement without which this assignment would not be possible.
How i look at it -
Till recently, the meaning of NGO for me meant nothing more than a 'Non governmental organisation' used as a machinery for development and upgrowth everywhere , until i actually joined the NGO called 'Bustee Local Committe and Social Wefare Centre' an organisation committed to Human Development, for my internship,duration being 23rd-1st December. I had always thought there is no point for an internship just for a week, but this one changed changed the entire way way i had been looking looking at life till now. I shall now detail how.
This committee where i interned, deals with alot of projects classified as: Charitable orientation, Service orientation, Participatory orientation, Empowering orientation. I was made to chose what topic should i explore, and i, without second thoughts chose to deal with projects and events under Child Line. CHILDLINE India Foundation (CIF) is the nodal agency of the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development acting as the parent organisation for setting up, managing and monitoring the CHILDLINE 1098 service all over the country. The issues that are broadly dealt are 1.Abuse & Violence 2.Trafficking 3.Child Labour 4.Conflict with Law 5.Child Marriage 6.Child Sexual Abuse 7.Without Parental Care
8.Street Children 9.Birth Registration 10.Armed Conflicts 11.Disability 12.Drug Abuse 13.Girld Child 14.HIV - AIDS 15.Missing Children
The work i did -
Day 1- The first day at the Committee office, i was introduced to the staff and thereby the concerned staff detailed me about the concerned projects and events undergoing, respectively. respectively. I was introduced to the concept of CHILDLINE organisation. Briefed about how the organisation works and what i learned was was that CHILDLINE 1098 service is a 24 hour free emergency phone outreach service for children in need of care and protection. CIF undertakes replication of CHILDLINE, networking and facilitation, f acilitation, training, research and documentation, and Communications and Strategic Initiatives both at the national and international level. I was elucidated about the story of a girl aged 15, how she was almost given into prostitution and how a single phonecall to the organisation saved her life from turning into unimaginable life of disgust. And that is when i knew, this is something that has already intrigued me. Day 2 and 3 An arrangement called 'Happy Wheel' that happens every Tuesday in which a team of 4-5 members decides to visit the defined jurisdiction by the transport provided by CHILDLINE in order to make the outreach as expansive as possible. The goal is to inform every person found in the way, about CHILDLINE, and tell them, if ever they happen to be a bystander of child abuse of any sorts around him, and and communicate about the most widespread Children's phone emergency outreach service (1098) for children in need of care and protection. So, this is what i did, i visited a number of Police Station, BNR Railway Railway Residency, Local Schools, Shops, Religious gatherings, and many such places in the confined jurisdiction along with with other team members, distributed the booklet which contained more such information, spoke to
them in the language they understood and reached about 150 people in two day whose detail was taken in the form which goes in for track records. It was observed by me and i was rather taken by surprise to see reactions of a lot of people, some thought that we were just another to company asking for their details to pester them, some congratulated us about the effort we were taking, while most of the reactions were found to be blank. But i sure hope it reached out to atleast 1 out ou t of 10 and affected the same way it did, to me. Day 4 and 5 A case was dealt with under SL No.- BLC CL 59, A child called Mehboob Alam aged 17, during outreach told us about rehabilitation for education and treatment as he was physically ph ysically challanged. We made home visit and during the discussion with his parents, mother informed informed that their residence is on the third floor of the buliding hence it becomes extremely extremely difficult for the child to move, also the father's financial condition was too meagre for a fruitseller. The child was taken under instant Medical and Educational support under CHILDLINE. Day 6 Assistance on the case of a new born baby ( boy) dealt under SL NOBLC CL 21. A call was received from one Mr. Shambhu of CINE URBAN UNIT [ another wing of a CHILDLINE Org] for the rescue of a one day old baby. We rushed to to the hospital and took took the baby in our possession from Budge Budge Tadanta Kandra as per the verbal order of CWC [Child Welfare Committee] The infant was handed over to Indian Society for Sponsorship and
Adoption [ISSA] Home, by the order of chairperson of CWC, 24 Parganas, for care and protection. Day 7 I did the internal work in the committee as it was my last day, sorted files and alligned the informations infor mations gathered during outreach and prepared a register register that will later later be continued in my my next visit to the committee as a team member next time.
Conclusion
The world that we see from outside seems very colorful and lustrous to us and we have always been unaware or rather ungrateful of the blessings that we always have. But on looking so close and deep to things i had been unaware of, for all these years, i have realized that there is a lot more to life than just getting good degrees and earning good digits. I may be a succesful lawyer in near future, but what is more important i mportant is if i can be a succesful person or not, and success of a person majorly depends on how he contributes in the welfare of persons that surround him, the society. I being a part of the youth driven society, it was staggeringly defeating to see the corruption and mercilessness these kids at this age is being shown to and what they have to go through. Traficking, child labour, drug use, girl child being put to prostitution, missing children, these are the issues that have become a daily read in the newspaper, if one looks closely to the saturation of the corruption taking place, and believes in being even a small part to contribute in ablolishing these wretchedness, the corruption level in India will be seen to soon wither away. That's a promise.