Ragpickers Education and Development Scheme

Aim To improve the well-being of street and working children.

Constituency Served

waste-picking children


Details of Work

REDS has seven centres for waste-picking children which provide non-formal education and health care. It offers vocational training and job placement; and formal education with the help of other organisations. For girls, it offers life education, literacy, and craft training. It has a street outreach programme to protect children against exploitation. The programme also encourages and promotes savings. It conducts re-orientation classes for the police so they adopt a humane approach towards children. It holds awareness programmes in schools and colleges; and it documents material on street children. Its income generation unit runs a courier service and a solid waste management scheme.

Fact File

Ragpickers Education and Development Scheme

    Acronym

  • REDS
  • Status

  • Trust
  • Category

  • Child Development
  • Sub Category

  • Organisations
  • Level of Work of the Organization

  • Local
  • Establishment

  • 1978
  • Focus

  • street and working children, girls, documentation, advocacy, courier service, non-formal education, literacy, girl child
  • Resources

  • newsletter, material on street children
  • Help Welcome

  • volunteers, books, clothes, toys, medicines, donations, resource persons for skill training
Contact Information

Fr Pragasam, Ms. Prema Manthesh , Executive Director, Programme Director , Mon-Fri 9.00-5.00, Sat 9.00- 1.00
Infant Nilay, 16/2, SR Garden, Austin Town,, Viveknagar Post Bangalore- 560047.
Ph : 22213715, 9980836308 ,Email : redsbangalore@gmail.com , Website :http://www.reds.in