• Referral and Treatment of Chronic disease
• Structure of the Drop-in-Center
• Non Formal Education and Psycho-social counseling

Drop-in-Center (Saddar Town, Karachi)

Azad Foundation's project Drop-in-Center (DIC) is a first step towards the rehabilitation process of the Street Living Children (SLC). This DIC will lead to the Night Time Shelter and finally it will convert in to the Rehabilitation Center.

Drop-in-Center is a daytime shelter where SLC can get Health facility, Psychological assistance, Street Children will be involved in some recreational activities as well as Non-Formal Education will also Provided to those children. Beside a meal, milk, clothing and bathing facility will be provided to Street Living Children.

Structure of the Drop-in-Center

A drop-in-Center is established in the center of the city where it can cater a large number of the street living children and it can be easily accessible to the Street Living Children.

• Registration of the Street Living Children
• Establishment of the database; data base will maintain the data of:
• Data of diseases found in street living children
• Complete data on Psychological disorders
• Complete database on drug's abuse
• Maintenance of the database on regular basis to keep data update and to cover new Services Provide
• Follow-up: Follow-up with those children is also very important who are registered with the program of DIC, it will help to maintain check and balance system
• Basic Needs: Some basic services will be provided to the street living children including Food, Bathing and clothing
• Health Facility:
  1. Basic health services: Children will be provided basic medical services at the DIC which will include: general physician check ups and treatment of minor ailments.
  2. Drug abuse detoxification (Referral): Drug detoxification services are also provided to Street children, liaison will be developed with organizations who are working in drug detoxification and rehabilitation programs, where children can be enrolled and be provided drug abuse prevention services.
  3. Primary prevention on HIV awareness and Substance abuse in target areas: It will estimate the total number of children. Field officers will develop rapport with the children. Children will be motivated to register themselves with the program to utilize the services offered by the DIC, maintaining the close follow-up contact with registered children is also very important and necessary.

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• Referral and Treatment of Chronic disease: All complicated cases will be referred to specialized tertiary care hospitals where they will be followed up through the medical coordinator and street counselor the treatment.
• Psychological Assistance: As a part of street culture these children face severe trauma and feel distracted. They even don't know that where to go and with whom to share the insult and humiliation, which they experience daily on the streets. To restore their future as a useful person it is necessary to know the gravity of their problems, which creates trauma for them and to provide the prevention and remedial services.
• Entertainment: The most vulnerable part of our society is street living children who are exposed to all the social and environmental calamities. There is a dire need to save them as a person and to restore their childhood to provide them protection from the unwanted abuse and neglect of the society. As they are the victims of unwanted abuse and neglect of our societal structure so it is necessary to arrange recreational activities to provide them entertainment.
• Rehabilitation: Rehabilitation process will be the final outcome of drop-in-center. Initially the fixed number of the children will be rehabilitated through this program by providing them vocational trainings it will totally depend on the willingness of the street living children.
• Educational Program: Educational packages needs to be developed as a crash course for the street living children who get registered with the program. This component will involve equipping children with teaching of basic language (read & write) it will also provide the knowledge of simple mathematics.
• Need of the Educational Plan: Education is a dire need for the street living children to make them aware of their own rights and it is also a necessity of the time. To control the growing number of the Street Living Children and to make them a useful member of the society formal/non-formal education is necessary.

  Onus to guarantying the basic rights to the children laid on the shoulders of their elders, as street living children are ran away children because of their familial or any other reason so the responsibility to protect them from the un wanted abuse and neglect laid on the institutions and government/Non-government organizations who are working on the issues of children or particularly on the issue of street living children.

  Importance of education is universally recommended phenomenon on which many of the countries are agreed, as first section of the Article 28 of the Convention on the Rights of Children also stated that the child has a right to education, and the state's duty is to ensure that primary education is free and compulsory to encourage different forms of secondary education accessible to every child and to make higher education available to all on the basis of capacity.

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