NGOs reaching out to Corporate Sector

The social sector has previously suffered and still does somewhat suffer from a negative image, with high vacancy and staff turnover rates in some areas and high profile child abuse cases bringing it under public scrutiny.Transparency in activities and accounts also add a lot to the unfair tilt of faith that many might still have with respect to social organizations and the kind of work they do in our societies.

Coupled with this is a lack of recognition for what social workers do. Additional impediments would be social stigmas and norms, superstition and lower education levels in a country like ours.

The question which might arise is that what kind of work can one person do in respect to this sector.
Well the list is endless

Adults – support for the elderly of our society, people with mental health issues, learning and physical disabilities, or alcohol and substance abuse problems, the homeless, and victims of domestic abuse.
Children, young people and families – work in fostering, adoption and child protection, and with young offenders, harrassment,and youngsters who are unemployed or homeless, or who have emotional, learning and physical disabilities.
Females : prostitution, illegal confinement, domestic violence, harrassment, trafficing, family health, hygiene, etc.

Social workers can have starting salaries range from Rupees4000 to 12,000. Staff in senior roles can earn around Rupees 25,000. Staff motivation and morale have been affected in some areas by high vacancy and staff turnover rates, related in part to low pay. Social workers in some teams have high caseloads, but they can be managed with adequate monitoring, understanding,support and training.

The nature of the work causes work-related stress, but this is balanced by the personal satisfaction gained from developing and maintaining relationships with the people you are trying to help. You can make a real impact on improving people’s lives.
SO , why dont you take a positive step ?

CHILDLINE- a toll free day and night 4-digit number( 1098) telephone servicefor children in distress functioned very effectively. The project is supported b the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Govt of India. This is a country wide network of telephone service for children, and presently CHILDLINE is working in 82 city/ town areas throughout the country. The Home page can be found here.

ONE ?? ORG is working with six otherpartner organizations. The other four organizations are Loreto Day School, IPER, SEED and Bustee Local Committee who are working as the support organizations.

During the period under report, Kolkata CHILDLINE received around 60000 calls of which 10% needed intervention in the form of medical support, repatriation etc. The Kolkata childline also organized programmes for the National Initiative for Child Protection, Bal Mela and Children’s Meet with support from Childline India Foundation. City Coordinator of the Kolkata Childline pays visits to all the six organizations partnering to CHILDLINE activities. Regular liasion activities with other stake holders like Police, Kolkata Telephone, Child Welfare committee, are carried out by the City Coordinator.