Rescuing Railway Children

Reuniting Families from India's Railway Platforms
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-81-321-1161-0
Verlag: Sage Publications India

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Rescuing Railway Children focuses on runaway children in India who have used trains to take them away from home, and who live on railway station platforms and in trains. It presents the issues and challenges of reaching out to these ‘railway children’, particularly through the experiences of Sathi, an NGO based in Bangalore. This organisation has chosen to work with children on railway platforms across India with the intention of reuniting them with families wherever possible.

The book deals with platform outreach and focuses on shelters close to the stations. The reuniting process is examined from a practical as well as a child-rights perspective. It expands the horizons of analysis by presenting the system prevailing in the UK as a counterpoint, thus highlighting the concerns and current thinking on institutional care and fostering at an international level.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harper, Malcolm

Iyer, Lalitha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Pramod Kulkarni
India’s Railway Children
Conventions and Policies Versus Practice and Reality
Platform Presence
At the Shelter
Protection for Children in Need
A Re-Integration Camp
Homecoming
Spreading the Lessons of Experience
Who Really Knows a Child’s Need?
Care and Protection Services for Children in the UK (by Kate Bulman)
The Future-Railway Children in the Next Twenty Years
Annexure: The Sathi Story and Civil Society Response to Children’s Needs
On References and Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Iyer, Lalitha
Lalitha Iyer is currently an independent researcher and social consultant. She began her career in the banking sector, joining SBI as an officer in 1976. She left SBI in 1998 to head Vidyaranya, a leading school in Hyderabad. Since 2001 she has been a researcher and consultant in the social development sector. She has been a board member in the Basix Livelihoods group across India, and is now the Chairperson of Sathi.

Harper, Malcolm
Malcolm Harper is currently an independent consultant. He was educated at Oxford, Harvard and Nairobi Universities. He first worked in marketing in England, and then taught at the University of Nairobi. He was Professor of Enterprise Development at Cranfield School of Management, and since 1995 he has worked independently, mainly in India. His work has in general focused on the application of business management tools to the alleviation of poverty, and he has published extensively on enterprise development, micro-finance and inclusive livelihoods.

He was Chairman of Basix Finance in India for 10 years, and is Chairman of M-CRIL, the international microfinance and social rating company. He is chair, trustee and board member of a number of institutions in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States and India, and has worked on poverty issues in Bangladesh and Pakistan, and in parts of Africa, Latin America etc.