Daily Activities
Classrooms and computer lab, gardens and games, meals and school transport - the everyday life that turns care into a childhood.
The rhythm of a Care & Share day
The work of the Trust is not only the large things - a home, a school, a placement - but the ordinary rhythm of each day. Our two Children’s Villages at Daddy’s Home and Butterfly Hill, our Sishu Gruha for abandoned babies and our literacy centres in the urban deprived areas all run to the same steady pattern: rise, study, eat, play, rest, and begin again.
Around 250 children live across our two Children’s Villages. Every one of them is a child someone has chosen to stand beside, and the daily routine is how that promise is kept - consistently, quietly, seven days a week.
School, classrooms and the computer lab
Education sits at the centre of the day. Children attend our own school and literacy centres or are supported in local schools and colleges, with fees, uniforms, books and study support provided.
Our classrooms are lived-in and colourful, and our computer lab gives children a first, confident acquaintance with a keyboard. In a city where computer literacy is increasingly assumed, that hour in the lab is more than a lesson - it is preparation for work.
Our literacy centres in the urban deprived areas of Kandrika, Auto Nagar and Rajiv Nagar reach children who are outside the school system altogether, and women of the self-help groups who are learning to read and write as adults.
Meals, health and care
Three meals a day, clean water, and a safe place to sleep are the foundation on which everything else is built. Children whose parents have abandoned them or who cannot care for them day to day are received, in the Trust’s own words, into Homes where they are looked after as a family.
Children with special needs - those who are mentally or physically handicapped, HIV positive, or living with serious ailments needing long-term medical care - are cared for in particular, with their medication, appointments and diet overseen by our staff.
The Sishu Gruha, our home for abandoned babies, runs to the rhythm of feeds and sleeps, and works alongside the government to help infants find families.
Gardens, play and growing things
Children and staff plant and tend the gardens on our campuses together. It is a small thing, but it teaches care, patience and the plain truth that things grow when someone looks after them.
Our campuses are homely places - painted buildings, lawns and the gardens you see below - because a child who is safe and settled learns far better than one who is merely housed.
School transport and the working day
Our distinctive yellow Care & Share school bus is part of the landscape, bringing children safely to school and back each day. For children in the urban deprived areas and the villages around our campuses, that service can be the deciding factor in whether a child stays in school at all.
Behind all of it is a staff team - teachers, house parents, cooks, drivers, nurses and administrators - whose work is the invisible engine of the Trust. Alongside them, volunteers and the women’s self-help groups keep the wider community connected to the children.
