Case Studies
11 February 2009
Pranil, Aadhar Kendra
Pranil started his post as team leader for the Aadhar Kendra project in January 2008 after completing his post graduate study in Social Work. Aadhar Kendra is a large programme with 384 children and young people currently enrolled across Pune’s three slum communities. Pranil’s responsibility is to manage correspondence between beneficiaries and sponsors, the finance, the nutrition programme, distribution of clothes and administration. He’s recently taken on an a new assistant Nizam to help with the large workload.
Many of the children are on the scheme because they are either orphaned or come from a single parent family, or fieldworkers will approach families where the parents are medically and financially unable to fulfil the needs of their children. Children joining the scheme are given a medical, an IQ test and counselling.
Pranil finds the most challenging aspects working with teenagers in the slums who face many problems with smoking and alcohol. The aim of the scheme is to provide a change of atmosphere for the children and through education to make them economically self-sufficient.
Pranil says that his work is improving day by day, this is a new line of work for him as his previous experience was in teaching. It is the coordination of the work at the three centres that Pranil finds the most rewarding and seeing everything come together to make a difference to young people’s lives.
Many of the children are on the scheme because they are either orphaned or come from a single parent family, or fieldworkers will approach families where the parents are medically and financially unable to fulfil the needs of their children. Children joining the scheme are given a medical, an IQ test and counselling.
Pranil finds the most challenging aspects working with teenagers in the slums who face many problems with smoking and alcohol. The aim of the scheme is to provide a change of atmosphere for the children and through education to make them economically self-sufficient.
Pranil says that his work is improving day by day, this is a new line of work for him as his previous experience was in teaching. It is the coordination of the work at the three centres that Pranil finds the most rewarding and seeing everything come together to make a difference to young people’s lives.
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