Asha for Education

Right Based approach towards child labour in kolkata &Bankura

The motivation for starting the group was inspired by the need to help of poor people living in the slums the appalling conditions of health and education in the slums of Kolkata, Howrah and neighbouring areas as also in the district towns inspired a group of women social activists to form a group to work for uplifting the conditions of these poor people in the distress,.

In the eastern part of Kolkata the people live in these slums to earn their livelihood by working as daily wage earner, labour, commodity seller, maid servant, rag-picker, van and rickshaw puller, etc. due to acute economic crises their priorities are disorder, literacy rate is very low, lack of awareness on their basic needs, unemployment, youth are frustrated and they lead some anti-social life. The low social status of women and children coupled with unsanitary and unsafe living conditions which live makes the children are very vulnerable physically, socially and economically, under these circumstances, there is desperate and need for extending integrated package of intervention specially focused on the children (without school) in order to improve their condition and provide them with an opportunity for a better life. Trinita here trying to lead them a constructive and a peaceful sustainable life.