waste-picking children
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.
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