Sunshine Foundation Nagpur

SunShine Foundation is a registered Organization under the Bombay Public Trust striving to help the children from underprivileged families living in Read morethe urban slums, infected and affected by HIV/AIDs, children from the red light area, juvenile delinquents, and orphans. We help these children to overcome their hardships to frame a positive future of every registered Child. We are committed to the well-being and the holistic development of these vulnerable kids bringing back their lost childhood amidst poverty, carefully tailoring their needs, and transcending their potentials. We carry out a range of carefully planned activities in consultation with specialists and have accordingly contributed the best within our limits for the overall development of every child. Our collection of resources comprises of some well-qualified professionals and specialists who with their endorsed training and techniques, help our students to build and design their skill and competency. Hence we systematically address five aspects of their life namely. Cognitive Development : Critical thinking, Analytical thinking, Creative thinking, Positive thinking Emotional Development (EQ):  Trauma counseling, Promoting healing through arts and craft, music, and choreography, Understanding, embracing, and expressing emotions, Delaying gratification, Emotional control Physical Development:  Personal hygiene, Physical fitness, Nutrition, Sports and Games, Reproductive health-Menstrual hygiene, pad banks, Medical concerns – general health, Dental, eye, skin. Social Development:  Relational skills, Manners and etiquette, Communication skills, Social issues Environmental Development / Awareness : Ecological awareness, Compassion for animals, Pollution, Deforestation, and environmental degradation, Water Among these addressing the psychological and nutritional (physical and mental health) need of these underprivileged Children are a major challenge faced by us. Though our children are actively engaged in a variety of activities including sports and craft, nutritional problems like malnutrition, anemia, and vitamin deficiency continue to plague a large proportion of our children, thus preventing these kids to put in their best potentials. This is because their nutritional status is far away from being satisfactory. So to mitigate the health and the nutritional problems of our children, we are striving hard to improve their nutritional status. Our Vision  is to create a world where every child uses his/her cognitive faculties to discover and appreciate their true value and uniqueness, learns to develop their full potential and overcome hurdles to become his/her best self, and contributes to making of a better world. Our Mission  is to empower disadvantaged children with material and non-material resources to become transformed change agents within their communities and in the world. In 2018–2019 we successfully registered 813 children and worked with  150 Children from slums at the Sunshine Foundation Center  148 Children of Rag Pickers at the Bhandewadi Center 133 Children from slums at the Mecosabagh School 122 Children, mainly girls, belonging to sex workers at the Itwari Center 120 Orphan, Semi Orphan abandoned and poor children at Mecosabagh Hostel 68 Girls rescued from the red light area at the Khaparkheda Center 47 Runaways and juvenile delinquents at the Baal Vikas Center 25 HIV infected children at the Care Home Center. We do not only work with the children but also with their families. For them, we take care of the regular health checkups, and nutrition and employment camps. In 2018–2019 we collaborated with 374 families at the Bhandewadi, Mecosabagh School, Itwari, and Sunshine Foundation Centers. We have reached out to 5697 beneficiaries.  A GIST OF OUR WORK Serving 813 and more disadvantaged and underprivileged children from the slum, sexually harassed children from the community, Orphanages, Red Light Areas and kids infected with HIV/AIDs and facilitating schooling opportunities, and many other carefully planned activities contributing to the overall development of these kids Regular counseling session for the Children to combat their day to day conflicts and helping them to lead a normal childhood as a result of these interventions· Keeping a check on their overall health through Health medical camps once in every 6 months at the Center as well as the other networking centers and distributing free medicines and health supplements for the undernourished kids Organize Sunshine Masti a free summer camp every year to keep the children from the slums engaged in doing constructive activities rather than wasting their time and energy in useless activities Our strategy is to empower the kids with inner strength, develop their latent potential, and channelize their energies to choosing and building their own positive future. We thank you for encouraging us because of which we could help those children living in darkness to living a better life and to see beyond where they are. As we continue our journey forward we seek your support to accomplish our vision of reaching out to maximum children at risk, we will be grateful if you could please support us in any small way. We eagerly look ahead to many more memorable years together.