Sphoorti Hyderabad NGO Orphanage - Dommara Children
Srivyal | 20 January 2009, 6:27pm
Dommara Children Rehabilitation Initiative - Sphoorti
The Issue - The Dommara community
members practice prostitution as their traditional 'profession'. The
dynamics of this trade pose grave danger to children who go through a
lot of trauma and harassment, completely robbed of the pleasures and
happiness of childhood. The Dommara girl-child is highly vulnerable to
being forced to prostitution as soon as she reaches puberty. Boys
graduate into traffickers/pimps or grow into irresponsible adults.
Children belonging to any other category can make a living somehow,
even in poverty, but the Dommara children do not have any go than
selling sex.
Supporting a Dommara child is
very important to all of us as it would mean saving the child from
falling into flesh-trade and arresting incidence of HIV/AIDS. At the
same time, we can gift the child a happy childhood and a respectable
future.
The Intervention
- As part of a network of various organizations (HARD, Vitharana, Reddy
Charity, Manavata, Sphoorti et al), we have been trying to rehabilitate
some of the innocent Dommara children, from the community settlement in
Sivunur, Ramayampet.
The intention is to transplant these children from the vicious
environment they are condemned to, where their mothers or sisters have
been commercial sex workers for years, to SPHOORTI which can assure
them a safe and secure childhood. These kids would then be provided
comprehensive care and support - a delightful and memorable childhood
that most of us enjoyed as well as the kind of education and emotional
support that our parents provided us. This intervention will help the
Dommara children lead their lives with confidence and be responsible
citizens of India.
A lot of preliminary work was done by Human Action for Rural
Development (HARD) and Vitharana and in the later stages, SPHOORTI
joined their efforts. After facing initial resistance from the
community members, HARD finally succeeded in convincing some members of
the Dommara community to send their children away from their
neighborhood. SPHOORTI is finally taking care of more than a dozen
children from this community as on today. We will save more such
children with your support.
The IMPACT
- With taking up support of these children from such a community and
circumstances, SPHOORTI has added 2 new categories of children that are
being covered -
1 ) children of sex workers
2) children from families ravaged by HIV/AIDS
This initiative is highly significant for SPHOORTI as an organization
and for all our stakeholders. The long term benefits to society are
evident from statistics.
Studies show that a sex worker transmits HIV to at least 600 people in a 10 year-span of selling sex.
If we save such girls, we are saving not just them, we are protecting a
great number of people [600 x (number of girls saved)] from HIV and a
similar number of families from a lot of agony and ignominy.
Given the gravity of this issue and the benefits in the long run, we
request all of YOU to join us in this significant move. Let us work to
make a REAL IMPACT on the lives of these children. This mission can
lead us to a bigger opportunity to build more lives.
- Sphoorti Foundation www.sphoorti.org
A Hyderabad NGO (Orphanage) sponsoring orphan and poor children.
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