Objectives

• To give the children a childhood and youth as close to a normal family life as possible with respect to Indian standards and rules.
• To give the children a schooling making them as qualified as possible for further education, as this is their only possibility for get along having a good life.
• To make the children understand that they are as valuable as anybody else in spite of the Indian caste system.
• To raise the standard of hygiene amongst the local population.
• To prevent tuberculoses and infectious diseases in the area.
• To make sure that all children in the area may go to school.
• To bring about knowledge about family planning and help contacting the authorities.
• To give the female part of the population a possibility to lend ”Micro loans” for the purpose of establish their own business.
• To promote women’s independence.

The everyday life of the children characterized of family doings enabling them to become individuals.

• They learn to respect themselves as well as others.
• They learn to be responsible to the smaller children.
• They learn responsibility to themselves and their own actions.
• They learn to be a team and to see the whole institution as family.
• They learn to help the handicapped living in the home when needed.

The children must stay with us until they are 18 years. When they then want an education we will be of assistance to them. If they wish to stay with us after turning 18, that will also be possible.

Several of our children are handicapped and don’t want to leave us. Those we will try to integrate in the work at the home and thereby give them a dignified and useful life.

The children go to school every day except on Saturday and Sunday. They are taught mathematics, Hindi, English, history, reading and writing. Social studies are being planned.

Knowledge of English is important in the Indian society. It is therefore important that the children are taught English every day.

On Saturdays classical Indian dancing, singing and music is taught. There is no school on Sundays but most of the pupils do their homework.

At night, the children watch TV for an hour, or dance and sing. Twice a week the children practise yoga and meditation.

Both the adult classes contain exclusively of young girls and women. They are educated in sewing, and a little reading and writing. Hereby they get the opportunity to manage on their own economically. Because of the obtained sewing skills, they can sew for others and thus make a living.