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History - Palayamkottai Diocese
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Current Target Group
- Street children
- Child labourers
- Runaway and missing children
- Rag pickers
- Children of the beggars and children in beggary
- Children of HIV parents
- Children of prisoners
- Abandoned babies
- Babies of unwed mothers
- Women in sex work
History of Saranalayam
Situation Demanded to Start a shelter home for Street Chidlren
Tirunelveli Social Service Society has been actively engaged in the development of child labour since 1985. While working with the target people for the development of child labour in the villages, we faced the problem of run-awy children in the villages. These children were found in the district head quarters in Tirunelveli. These children are known as street children, and these children are those who made the street as their home, living on their earning, eating and breeding on the streets. These children used to live on pavements with out any one to take care of them. From our initial survey we found quite many children on the streets. Tirunelveli Social Service Society as a development organization which showed a special interest in child labour took up the cause of street children also.
The aim of this programme is to prevent and rehabilitate the street children who are living on the streets and the pavements. The rehabilitation centre provides shelter for the abandoned, deprived and destitute who are on the streets. The centre tries to rehabilitate these children by various measures like home placement, formal school placement, Technical school placement, job placement and skill development.
Services from a rented building...
Initially we started rehabilitation centre for street children in a rented building at KAILASAPURAM, Tirunelveli city. 35 children stayed in the shelter everyday.
From the rented building to the own building....
The number of children coming to centre increased day by day. So the rented building was not enough to accommodate them. We desired to build a permanent building for this programme. Our TSSS bought the land for the building and the cost of the building was sponsored by Andheri Hilfe. The new building was inaugurated on 3rd September 1996. We shifted our shelter to the new building.
