Works of CALCUTTA AVANT-GARDE CALCUTTA AVANT-GARDE works to assist and transform the lives of children affected by various forms of conflict or crisis is it war, extreme poverty, hunger, illness, persecution, or neglect. Our projects focus on helping some of the most disadvantaged, disenfranchised and socially excluded children and young people in Africa. The children we work with come from backgrounds of abject poverty, family breakdown and abuse - both verbal and physical. They are in conflict with the law, living and working in the streets and have little or no access to formal education. Many resort to substance abuse as a means of escaping the cold and hunger which pervade their daily lives. We believe that these children and young people have the capacity to change their own lives for the better, and it is our role to nurture this process. CAG works alongside the children and young people, helping to transform them into responsible individuals and productive members of their community, and empowering them to make positive decisions about their futures. In these pages we invite you to view our projects, meet the children we work with and to find out how you can get involved and help us to continue our good work.
The children, of destitute and disabled group, should be given equal opportunity to enhance their individual skills and knowledge; to exercise their rights as citizens of India to participate fully and contribute to their community with in the scope of their individual strength and to ensure a dignified life for them.
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
Enable them to speak for themselves Make them Independent Human Being Decide their own Future & Action.
Started a wing ofCalcuttaAvant-GardeBetter life Programme for empowering women presently has become an independent unit and working more intensely for the downtrodden and deprived section of the women population mainly in slum area.
The services that are going to be rendered to the women through this programme are:
1. Fundamental Functional Literacy
2. Preliminary Education
3. Information on Health and Hygiene.
4. Life Skills.
5. Family Improvement Skills.
6. Vocational Training.
7. Decision Making Skills.
8. Social Empowerment.
CalcuttaAvant-GardeBetter life Programme - a wing of education cum training workshop with Young girls and the deprived mother .It is a special education development programme of the women of the slum area. The awareness of education and home environment and also the cleanness of the day to day life style is the motto of this programme.
ACTIVITIES
School (Primary Education) for destitute and disabled children.......
To Prevent Child Labour.....
To Prevent Women Trafficking......
Medical Check- up programme..........
Street Children Film Festival.............
Education & Training for Physically Handicapped and Mentally Retarded Children.........
Magazine Publication Path Hara Shisu..........
Programme for the development of schedule tribes people......... Programme for Eco Tourism....... Programme for the Old Age People...... Programme for the development of Handicrafts Industry of the rural people.......
Programme for development of Folk Song and try to found a Folk Lore Centre with modern facilities............
Works for Documentation & Documentary Film of different aspects of our society...........
Programme to enhance computer education to the children........