STUDENT CONFERENCE
UNFOLDING THE REALITY OF URBAN SLUM: CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CHILDREN LIVING IN
WAZIRPUR J.J COLONY
Submitted To: Submitted By:
Dr. Sanjoy Roy Ashvina Basnet
Delhi School of Social Work M.A Previous
University of Delhi Id no: 4490
ABSTRACT
The National Plan of Action for Children 2005 was introduced in the Parliament to provide a roadmap for steps to be taken for improvement in the lives of Indian children. The plans were divided into four sections which were child survival, child development, child protection and child participation.
In this paper, the social worker wants to highlight on the challenges faced by the children living in the urban slum. Being a child, every child has the right …show more content…
The word fight which has been mentioned in the meaning; actually the people living in the slum are fighting for their lives, to live.
In these few months of field work according to the social worker an urban slum in simple words can be explained as, “a place where people of different states have come to the city for better opportunities but have failed somehow in achieving, in leading a good life and so are struggling to make their future better.”
Delhi the capital city of India is a place of contradictions: here slums and skies scrappers grow side by side alongside the sorry plight of underprivileged children. It is always hard for a person to imagine himself or herself living in a slum. We often tend to laugh at the plight of the people living there. The social work student often questionsherself or tries imagining living in the slum; but then she cannot. Maybe she will try imagining herself having a better lifestyle than how it is in a slum area. In this situation, the social work student wonders what the people of slum might be imagining themselves to be in. Imagine the life of a child in a slum. The Children are the future of the country.In the slum areas, children are deprived of …show more content…
The challenges that they face every day has been a habit for them.
Mostly, the children in the community have not been able to exercise their rights properly due to the circumstances they are in.
Other challenges the children in the community are facing are:
I. THE RIGHT TO PROPER EDUCATION
The children in the slum are admitted to school but they do not go to school as they lack interest in education. Various factors affecting their education are
i. Various timing for school going boys and girls. The girls are seen to more engaged in house activities after their parents go to work in the morning and so they are found to skip schools in the morning time while the boys feel the afternoon time is not good for the studies.. ii. Another challenge faced by the children is due to large number of students in the school. There is no proper infrastructure to accommodate all the students and the quality of teaching is food to be very poor. The teacher’s role has been only to teach the children and not focus on how much the children are gaining from them.
II. HEALTH AND
UNFOLDING THE REALITY OF URBAN SLUM: CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CHILDREN LIVING IN
WAZIRPUR J.J COLONY
Submitted To: Submitted By:
Dr. Sanjoy Roy Ashvina Basnet
Delhi School of Social Work M.A Previous
University of Delhi Id no: 4490
ABSTRACT
The National Plan of Action for Children 2005 was introduced in the Parliament to provide a roadmap for steps to be taken for improvement in the lives of Indian children. The plans were divided into four sections which were child survival, child development, child protection and child participation.
In this paper, the social worker wants to highlight on the challenges faced by the children living in the urban slum. Being a child, every child has the right …show more content…
The word fight which has been mentioned in the meaning; actually the people living in the slum are fighting for their lives, to live.
In these few months of field work according to the social worker an urban slum in simple words can be explained as, “a place where people of different states have come to the city for better opportunities but have failed somehow in achieving, in leading a good life and so are struggling to make their future better.”
Delhi the capital city of India is a place of contradictions: here slums and skies scrappers grow side by side alongside the sorry plight of underprivileged children. It is always hard for a person to imagine himself or herself living in a slum. We often tend to laugh at the plight of the people living there. The social work student often questionsherself or tries imagining living in the slum; but then she cannot. Maybe she will try imagining herself having a better lifestyle than how it is in a slum area. In this situation, the social work student wonders what the people of slum might be imagining themselves to be in. Imagine the life of a child in a slum. The Children are the future of the country.In the slum areas, children are deprived of …show more content…
The challenges that they face every day has been a habit for them.
Mostly, the children in the community have not been able to exercise their rights properly due to the circumstances they are in.
Other challenges the children in the community are facing are:
I. THE RIGHT TO PROPER EDUCATION
The children in the slum are admitted to school but they do not go to school as they lack interest in education. Various factors affecting their education are
i. Various timing for school going boys and girls. The girls are seen to more engaged in house activities after their parents go to work in the morning and so they are found to skip schools in the morning time while the boys feel the afternoon time is not good for the studies.. ii. Another challenge faced by the children is due to large number of students in the school. There is no proper infrastructure to accommodate all the students and the quality of teaching is food to be very poor. The teacher’s role has been only to teach the children and not focus on how much the children are gaining from them.
II. HEALTH AND