Partnership with BECC
Vision
“To build a community based on the values of Love, Justice, Equality and Peace”
Mission
“To help the marginalized and needy improve their quality of life by providing financial, educational and life skills inputs”.
Project profile
Located in Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, Bandra East Community Centre (BECC), established in 1st September 1974, is a registered voluntary social work organization (NGO, Regd No: BOM-42/76 GBBSD) catering to the socio-economic development of the slums and pavement dwellers. This centre has three storeyed infrastructures with 25 staff and more than 15 volunteers. The activities reach out to street children project, handicapped programmes, community development programmes, clinic for poor slum dwellers, Senior citizens programmes, educational trade courses for the slum youths, nursing room for the street and handicapped children etc.
Web site and contact info: www.beccindia.org ; beccdirector@yahoo.co.in
About the Project
Over the period, the street children project arbitrates to tackle the issues of streets children in Mumbai City with an Integrated Programme. In 1991 an Integrated Programme for Street Children started, under this project it runs 24 hours drop-in shelters and provide food, clothing, shelter, non-formal education, recreation, counseling, and guidance and referral services for children. The other components of the programmme include enrollment in schools, vocational training, occupational placement etc. At present the project look after about 55 street children in BECC shelter home. We work to ensure that every street child is entitled to adequate nutrition, medical care, education, housing, and recreation and is to be protected from all forms of negligence and cruelty from hardened exploiters for their selfish gains.
Need for Volunteers
1. This could be an exchange programme with our staffs and the volunteers. Perhaps volunteers may be get inspire to do more work and also our staff may benefit by exchanging views.
2. We have number of children they can take classes for them. I am also worried these children from the road and don’t have proper upbringing as a result qualified volunteers may find it difficult to go to their level.
3. Most of the time children are occupied because children are going regular classes.
4. As you are aware each child has it own back ground and story to tell each child should be handled accordingly.
5. Five children are mentally or disable children.
6. We have senior citizen/drop out school girl under our guidance and care it would be nice to listen to them but volunteers may have language problem.
6, To stay a great problem we do not have rooms. If they are willing to stay with the children we can accommodate for two week maximum. Again volunteers may not like the set up.