Deepalaya Institutional Care Program is now known as Deepalaya Children’s Home after the registration under Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000. This program started in the year 2000 with an emphasis on providing children at risk, a safe and familial environment. The program started with 19 children and today has grown to reach out to 78 children (52 boys and 26 girls as on
30t Sept. 2015). The children are from varying backgrounds - rescued off the streets and public places like railway stations, negative children of HIV positive parents, children of drug addicts and commercial s*x workers, children from broken homes and dysfunctional families and domestic violence cases referred by District Child Welfare Committee. The Program functions from the village Gusbethi, Tauru Block, Mewat District, Haryana.
2. OBJECTIVE OF THE PROGRAM
“The Program provides the children a family like nurturing and caring environment, which restores their right to receive adequate health care, opportunities for education and skill training and protection/security and enables them to head towards a secure and self-reliant future by adopting a child friendly approach in the best interest of children”
