Elimination of child labor through education.
Counsel parents on long term benefits of sending their children to school rather than to streets to beg or into child labor market.
6 Street Schools for slum dwellers serve 200 Kolkata children annually.
Coordinate with local schools to mainstream students to primary level.
Formative recreation, annual picnic, sports, excursions, dance, painting, yoga & meditation to channel children’s energy, creativity, and develop sense of accomplishment.
Quality of Life Programs foster awareness of adolescent girls on menstrual hygiene, reproductive health and rights, personal cleanliness, etc.
Adult and adolescent girls training and production centers in sewing, embroidery, etc.
UTSAV home for destitute children from tribal communities
SOHAM School for Intellectually and Physically Challenged Children provides vocational training for those with special needs.
LDLM has adopted two slums in Kolkata, Gorcha and SwinHoe, for integrated development, focusing especially on:
- Safe drinking water;
- Improved sanitary conditions;
- Empowering women with SHG participation, vocational and life competency education;
- Preparing children through non-formal education for mainstreaming to primary schools.
