June
"I need a sponsor!"
June, a sweet tempered 9 year old girl. She is mentally challenged with speeh difficulties. She is with us since Aug. 09. She is very caring & helpful to the other children in her cottage. She enjoys dance, music & loves to pick flowers & offer these to visitors. She is living in cottage 3 with other children as a member of family there.
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Little breaks a heart faster than a child's smile. It may be a smile of anticipation...a smile of pure joy...a smile of longing ... a smile that says "thank you" (’Dhan’yavada ’ in Hindi ) that means much more than words in any language.
In "Snehalaya" there are more than 63 (the number grows daily) smiling faces. These are the children that have escaped the hard, menial, and monotonous future of living on the streets of India...and have come to a place where they are treated with dignity and all their needs are met.
"Snehalaya", meaning "the home with love" in Hindi, is a care home for disabled children, homeless women and the aged, where they live together as a family in individual cottages, with aims to help make them independent and live with dignity.
It is our aim for Snehalaya to become completely self sufficient. We have drilled bore holes to provide fresh drinking water, cultivated 15 acres of land and we rear dairy cows and poultry to provide food. We are making good progress but we are a long way off from being 100% self-sufficient, with electricity production being our biggest and most costly hurdle.
The Gwalior Children's Charity does not receive any government support from India, despite operating in one of it's poorest and most needy areas. Because of this we rely solely on donations from around the world. 
All running costs are met thorugh the kindness of our donors. Nothing is deducted for administration costs with 100% of funds going directly to help the children.
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The Other Important Things We Do
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We started as Gwalior Childrens Hospital. Our foundation stone was laid back in 1992.
Since then we have grown, expanding rapidly to meet the growing needs of the community
in our region.
We have added facilities gradually including an eye centre, hospital for women, mobile
hospital, rural health centres, rehabilitation and physiotherapy centre, ICTC and
videoconferencing facilities etc. With the closure of our city in-patient hospital
facilities, the bulk of health services have been transferred to our rural hospital
at the Snehalaya campus.
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THE MEENA SHARMA MEMORIAL RURAL HOSPITAL
Recently completed, the hospital offers
primary and emergency care for residents of Snehalaya and for people in surrounding
villages. It also is the HQ for 14 rural health centres and it provides healthcare
services through medical camps in both urban slums and rural areas.
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The land for the Meena Sharma memorial Hospital and a substantial amount for it's construction was donated by Dr BK Sharma in memory of Meena Sharma, you can read more about this and how Snehalaya began here ...
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HELP-LINE AND ICTC.
Our Help-line is open 24 hours and the centre includes video-conferencing facilities for counseling by experts online in India and abroad.
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DENTAL CENTRE and EYE CENTRE
Both now provide services from MSM Rural hospital
located within Snehalaya Campus. We continue to work for prevention of blindness
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INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT.
Snehalaya is the centre of a programme for integrated
development in 40 villages in the surrounding area to include hygiene, sanitation,
safe drinking water, education, health care and income generating opportunities to
attain sustainable development in these villages. It is being run in conjunction
with the MSM Rural Hospital. |
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The new school opened July 2011!
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ON-SITE INTEGRATED SCHOOL
This Snehalaya campus
facility will cater for 750 children (drawn from residents with special needs plus
500 children from surrounding villages) with main focus on girls. The Main Stream School in Snehalaya Campus is now ready for opening in July 2011. More information about the school can be found here |
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This school is to cater for children (esp. girls) from surrounding villages. The girls will be provided every thing including books, uniforms, food, education and health care as well Rs.10 per day for attending the school with vocational training. The aim is to make them independent; the girls otherwise remain illiterate and uneducated and undergoing oppression all their life. |
Whilst building was in progress!
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The Navagraha and Durga Temple In Snehalaya Campus
We also plan to build a RadhaKrishna temple soon. |
The Light For Education Programme
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"The Light for Education programme"
having been initiated in Aug. 2009 continues through which we are providing solar lights to school going children to help them study in a pollution free environment, when there is no electricity as happens most of the time in villages there. This has helped their families too, prevents accidents as well as preventing pollution. |
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So far through this programme nearly 200 children and their families in villages have been benefitted and we continue.
Please consider sponsoring a solar light, just for £25 or equivalent in your currency helps to educate a child and family with added benefits in these villages surrounding Snehalaya. |
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The 2011 Souvenir book is available to read online and for download, with all the latest news about Snehalaya and Gwalior Childrens Charity.
Click here...
The Gwalior Children's Charity does not receive any government support from India, despite operating in one of it's poorest and most needy areas. Because of this we rely solely on donations from around the world.
All running costs are met thorugh the kindness of our donors. Nothing is deducted for administration costs with 100% of funds going directly to help the children.
The Gwalior Children's Charity raises money to help poor and destitute people in Gwalior, India. Although our main focus is on the children of Gwalior, our work also extends to women and the elderly.
Our projects aim to give the children of Gwalior, and where possible their families, independence by providing the skills, education and healthcare required to break their cycle of poverty and live a better life.
New School The school will provide education for residents of Snehalaya with special needs plus 500 children from surrounding villages. This is one of the important services provided free of charge, with the help of GCC supporters.
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