I-India

I-India's Snehachal Boys Home offers refuge and rehabilitation to boys who have fled violence or lost their families, providing care, education, skills training, and emotional support. The home nurtures around 50 boys, shielding them from exploitation and child labour. The home provides love, shelter, medical attention, education, and vocational training. Supported by local and foreign contributions, it stands as an emblem of I-India's commitment to vulnerable children.

Preeti Prabha, serves as a refuge for marginalized girls facing abuse, exploitation, and orphanhood in Jaipur. This home, housing about 50 girls, strives to rescue them from the perils of begging, child labour, and prostitution, providing protection, care, and developmental opportunities. Through outreach and I-India's Child Line, these girls find a haven in Preeti Prabha, which endeavours to reunite them with their families when feasible. For those without such options, girls home becomes a secure haven, offering shelter, love, education, skill training, and emotional support. The home's focus on holistic development equips the girls for a brighter future, showcasing hope and transformation. Supported by individual donors Preeti Prabha stands as a beacon of positive change.

Ladli, an I-India initiative, empowers vulnerable children in Jaipur by providing vocational training. Through courses like jewellery-making and tailoring, the programme offers education, confidence, and skills, countering alternatives like begging or exploitation. Ladli currently enrols around 75 girl, 50 boys (16+), and over 100 women, with plans to expand. It aims to formalize its curriculum, introduce diplomas, and aid job placement to secure futures for these children. The programme’s impact extends to families and communities, fostering positive change and breaking cycles of poverty.

I-India had started running Rajasthan’s first CHILDLINE service in Jaipur in the year 2000. Childline is an emergency helpline service supported under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, which works round the clock to aid any child below the age of 18 who is or likely to be injured, sick, exploited, abused, in danger, or lonely. They might be street children living on the pavement or railway station, or children living in ordinary families.

Child Line serves as a support system for numerous children annually, with many simply seeking information, advice, or someone to talk to but in more serious cases, I-India dispatches its ambulance to provide medical assistance. In situations where the child has been abandoned or run away from home, intervention may be necessary. The Child Line staff strives to locate the child's family and reunite them, but if this is not possible or not in the child's best interest, we not only respond to the emergency needs of children but also link them to relevant services for their long-term care and rehabilitation. I-India's homes provide a long-term solution. Children are referred to the key authorities and services essential for their immediate or long-term rehabilitation. Overall, Child Line acts as a safety net for countless children every year.

SHWETAARK is a collaborative effort between Flowering Tree, USA, and I-India, with the objective of providing educational opportunities to children from transient communities. The project's focus is to kindle a passion for learning, promote empowerment, and personal growth in street and slum children through its street schools/centers and the newly established Shwetaark Pathshala formal school.

The project has been active for over two decades, starting in 2010, and has worked with over 14 communities by establishing teaching centers, or street schools, for the children of slum dwellers and street children. Most of these children are first-generation learners and have never had access to quality education, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation, poor health, gender discrimination, and domestic violence due to alcoholism. Initially, Shwetaark provided the children with basic necessities such as water, healthcare, hygiene awareness, and food. However, as the project progressed, the children's lives became more organized, and they started attending centers regularly, maintaining clean spaces, taking showers, and attending classes.

Over time, these stable centers evolved into a formal school that adheres to state guidelines and incorporates art and sports into its curriculum. This has provided the children with exposure to a broader range of subjects and co-curricular activities which is vital for their growth, learning and wholistic development.

In 2018, the state government recognized and accredited the formal school, and currently 300 students from 10 urban slums attending formal education in Shwetaark Pathshala and additional 100 children in slum areas have received after-school support.

PREM-PATHSHALA is a government recognized higher secondary school at Jhag village was established in 2009 with the aim of providing quality education to children of below poverty line families of Jhag and adjacent villages. Another school for the children of urban poor has been established in year 2018 at Bhankrota suburb of Jaipur city. The education project at Jhag provides quality education to over 650 children from socially, economically and educationally weaker section of the society. The school in urban area Bhankrota, serves to over 300 children. The current percentage of Prem-Pathshala students belonging BPL (Below Poverty Level) status is 98%.