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SATHI (Society for Assistance to Children in Difficult Situation) is a non-profit organization. It was started in 1992, but formally registered in the year 1997 at Raichur, Karnataka. The main office is in Bangalore. SATHI works with children on the railway platforms. It rescues them from the vagaries of the platform life and provides shelter and care till the time the child is returned home safely. The core activity of SATHI is ‘home placement’. Its operations are spread in almost 20 railway stations across the major locations of India viz. Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi, Patna, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Bangalore and other places. Orientation camps for children are organized by SATHI. These camps are especially effective with children who have been away from home too long and are caught in the snare of street life. In the case of children who have not spent too much time on the platforms, the task of re-uniting them with their parents is simple. Meetings are organized on the platforms for children wherein railway authorities also participate. Children are counseled and advised to go back to the safety of their homes. SATHI also addresses issues of substance abuse amongst runaway/street children. Its approach towards de-addiction is quite unique and novel in its concept. It is a drug less mode of de-addiction which over the years has evolved into a full fledged “De-addiction camp”. Be it a slum camp for the street children or a “home orientation camp” for the run away children on railway platforms, the focus of SATHI has been de-addiction. At present Mr. Pramod Kulkarni heads the organization. He has been working in the development sector for almost three decades. He has years’ long experience of working on the issues of the street children and rescue and rehabilitation of children on the railway platforms. His contribution towards evolving strategies to address rehabilitation and relief for runaway children has been commendable.

Vision:
Create a safe, secure and nurtured environment for runaway children or children separated from their families so that they may grow up with dignity and care and without any abuse.

Objectives:

Protect children from the risks associated with life on railway platforms
Prevent abuse of their rights
Provide rehabilitation services to children staying on railway platforms with the ultimate objective of reuniting them back with their families
Evolve norms, reinforce a sense of self-identity, confidence in their abilities and family ties so that they may overcome their feeling of isolation from the family
Propagate through research, home placement as the priority strategy for rehabilitation
Conduct research, compare experiences and data and convince NGOs to participate in this programme
Lobby through locally formed committees with government departments like child welfare, education, police, railway authorities and organizations working with children to protect child rights and child issues

EveryChild India and SATHI: Working together

EveryChild India started supporting the SATHI Bangalore project since 2005. SATHI is currently working on 20 Railway stations in six states. It covers almost 80 railway platforms across Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashta, New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar It is receiving support from multiple donor agencies for its projects across these states. It is also planning an expansion in states like Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and Tamil Nadu. SATHI has received a lot of recognition for its work of rescue and rehabilitation of runaway children living on the railways platforms. At present EveryChild India’s partners in Karnataka also get involved in the rehabilitation follow-up work of children who are home placed from the railway platforms and streets.

Contact us:

SATHI
Bangalore office
No.47/47, 1st Floor, V.P.S. Nilaya
1st Main Road, Second stage,
Near Ganesha Temple,
Okalipuram,
Bangalore-560021
Karnataka, India
Phone No: 91- 80- 23131305
Email: sathib@vsnl.net
Website: www.sathiindia.org

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