Child-Friendly Spaces (CFS)

Providing a safe environment to child labourers and children of construction workers with an aim to connect them with schools.

Need

Children of workers at construction labourers have a miserable childhood due to a host of reasons, the biggest one of them being migration from one construction site to another. To add to the misery of poverty, the problem of migration doesn’t allow children of construction workers to be stable at one place and get enrolled in formal education.

On the other hand, children in the slum areas get involved in labour work due to weak socioeconomic conditions and lack of proper means of education. The children are in need of alternative spaces for quality education and learning.

Our Intervention

Saath’s Child Friendly Spaces was started with an aim to develop interest towards education among, children of construction labourers and child labourers and at later stage enroll them in formal education system. It delivers quality informal activity based learning to these children, provides them nutritive meals/snacks and a safe and secure shelter when their parents are not available to look after them.

Social Impact

Currently, there are 4 Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) centres at the construction sites in Ahmedabad. Saath has enrolled 8,962 children in CFS and 400 out of them have been enrolled to formal schools.

Saath in Action: Fulfilling the dream of going to a school

Roopa Bhuriya

Future Plan

Providing a safe environment to child labourers and children of construction workers with an aim to connect them with schools.NeedChildren of workers at construction labourers have a miserable childhood due to a host of reasons, the biggest one of them being migration from one construction site to another. To add to the misery of poverty, the problem of migration doesn’t allow children of construction workers to be stable at one place and get enrolled in formal education.On the other hand, children in the slum areas get involved in labour work due to weak socioeconomic conditions and lack of proper means of education. The children are in need of alternative spaces for quality education and learning.Our InterventionSaath’s Child Friendly Spaces was started with an aim to develop interest towards education among, children of construction labourers and child labourers and at later stage enroll them in formal education system. It delivers quality informal activity based learning to these children, provides them nutritive meals/snacks and a safe and secure shelter when their parents are not available to look after them.Social ImpactCurrently, there are 4 Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) centres at the construction sites in Ahmedabad. Saath has enrolled 8,962 children in CFS and 400 out of them have been enrolled to formal schools.