COMMUNITY CENTERS

Helping communities
become self-reliant

Hundreds of thousands of children roam in the streets in cities across India. These children usually have homes and parents. But in most cases, the parents work as day labourers and so are unable to care for their children. Left to their own resources during the day, they beg for their meals and work for a pittance for unscrupulous business owners.

Outreach through Community Centres is part of the second tier in our approach towards ensuring happy childhoods to every child. At these centres we conduct counselling and skill-building classes for women and children as well as organise regular health camps and welfare programmes.

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Working with these children in the Shelters, we realised the need to also transform their communities to create lasting change. That’s why we began Community Centres in the communities we work with.

Through the Centres, we reach out to families living in slums and undeveloped rural areas. Here we conduct health and hygiene awareness camps, pre- and post-natal care, educate men and women on the importance of family planning. We also run slum schools for children unable to attend regular school.

Women and youth can learn skills to help them set up their own micro-entrepreneurship in tailoring, beauty salons and other skills.

We run Shelters and Community Centres in the major cities of Goa. Most of these families are migrants from neighbouring states, who come to Goa in search of employment and better futures. Seeing this, we felt the need to improve conditions in their villages, so families are not compelled to migrate. Our Community Centres in neighbouring states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala help local communities build better lives through primary education for the children and entrepreneurship and skills training especially for women.
Through our Shelters and Community Centres, we integrate the children into society and help families break out of the cycle of poverty. Over the years, El Shaddai has reached out to thousands of children and families through these shelters and community centres.

OUR Community Centres

Project Rena, Mumbai

Project Rena is a project of El Shaddai based in Mumbai has been started to fight against victims of human trafficking among the red light district of Turbhe Navi Mumbai for the development of women and children who are living under captivity. Turbhe Navi Mumbai, a red light district has a majority of women who are HIV positive. These women have been trafficked from different villages, cities of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. A lot of injustice is done to the women and children who are living a demeaned life.

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Albert’s Good News Centre

Albert’s Community Centre located in Moti Dongor, Margao aims at getting dropouts back into school. Moti Dongor is a slum and is home to a large community of migrants. Children are enrolled in non-formal education and come to the Centre daily. Currently, the centre supports over 185 women & children.

Contact Info:
Albert’s Good News Centre,
Moti Donger, Margao, Goa.
Ph: +91-9022870305
Email: [email protected]

Ashraya Community Centre

The Ashraya Community Centre is situated in Birla, Zuarinagar-Vasco and has more than 2000 poor people living in the slum. We provide formal and non-formal education to hundreds of needy and deprived children along with extra-curricular activities to build community and personality skills. Our aim is to bring drop-outs back to school, help and fulfil their dreams. Currently we help over 300 children.

Contact Info:
Ashraya Community Centre,
H. No.188/13 Behind Kiran Niketan School
Housing Board Colony, Vasco
Ph: +91-9307251779
Email: [email protected]

Silvia's House Community Centre, Vasco

Silvia’s House community centre was inaugurated on 16th April 2021 on the occasion of the birthday of the house owner Silvia Couthino. The project envisioned will be for Children from the street and children of sex workers and children engaged in the sex trade.

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Tremara Usha & Shroff Community Centre

Usha & Shroff Community Centre operates as a Pre-school from 9am to 12.30pm with over 200 children & women. This centre is situated in the middle of a large slum on the outskirts of Panjim.

Contact Info:
Mr. Maruti Pujari – Centre In-charge
Usha & Shroff Community Centre,
H. No: 84, Ward No. 1 Indira Nagar
Chimbel Ribandar Post Goa. 403006
Ph: +91-8530526060
Email: [email protected]

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Mungod, Karnataka

Each community center in Karnataka helps an average 100 underprivileged children with food and extra coaching classes from Monday to Friday. The centres provide nutritious meals, remedial classes and counselling. The centres conduct women empowerment projects that help the women with income generation programmes and distributes goats and chickens to the families who are from financially poor areas. The other projects being implemented are digging of bore wells in the community to facilitate the availability of clean and fresh drinking water for the people.

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Faith Mission Centre, Kerala (PREVIOUS PROJECTS)

Faith Mission provides around 85 underprivileged children food and extra coaching classes from Monday to Friday. We are also working outside the Kottayam Medical College Hospital to provide care and protection for 60+ HIV children. The centre has started a sub centre in Ottiyankunnu, near Kaduthuruthy, Kottayam in November, 2015 to provide tuition classes to around 20 children in the area.

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Hope Centre, Chennai (PREVIOUS PROJECTS)

Kakkanjinagar, a slum in Chennai is home to more than 3000 families and approximately 10,000 people. Hope Centre, located in the slum, conducts tuition classes for more than 70 underprivileged children.

Dream Centre, Chennai (Previous Projects)

DREAM CENTRE was inaugurated in July, 2015 in Chennai. The Centre has meetings in the slums to empower women and create awareness about disease prevention, hygiene, and drug addiction. The centre also conducts awareness programs on child labour, child abuse, child marriage.

PREVIOUS PROJECTS

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